Agile Engineering Podcast

In Episode 14 of the Agile Engineering Podcast, hosts Liam Gulliver, Pete Gallagher, Louise Paling, Mica Bell, and Jonathan Relf delve into the intricacies of building a team with the right people.They discuss the significance of having team members who possess both the necessary technical skills and cultural fit, the challenges posed by unconscious biases, and different approaches to recruitment tailored to varying needs and contexts. The discussion centers on what it means to hire the ‘right’ people, exploring factors such as skills, team fit, and diversity. Mica emphasizes the importance of understanding both buzzwords and individual personalities, while Liam stresses that skills should take precedence over cultural fit, especially in tightly scheduled projects. The team delves into the challenges of subjective biases in recruitment, the relevance of CV content, and the efficacy of various interview techniques from technical tests to casual conversational assessments. The episode also touches on the significance of diversity, the impact of the current market demands on hiring practices, and the best ways to ensure both the company and candidate benefit from the recruitment process. Each host brings unique perspectives and experiences, making for a comprehensive discussion on how to build successful, diverse, and efficient teams within the agile engineering space.From analysing CVs and probing interview questions to the pros and cons of diversity quotas, the hosts share their diverse opinions and experiences, reflecting on how the ever-evolving landscape of tech recruitment impacts team dynamics and productivity. We hope you find the discussion useful while you’re assisting with building the right team for your business.

The team talk with Kelsey Hightower about the impact of integrating security into DevOps, sharing insights on best practices, automation, and serverless technologies.

We discuss evaluating engineering team performance, the limitations of metrics, and the importance of human-centric management with special guest Charity Majors.

Tom Geraghty of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs returns to continue our exploration of psychological safety. In this episode we take a look at real-world events such as Chernobyl and the Volkswagen emissions scandal and how psychological safety (or lack t...

In episode 10, which is coincidentally our last episode for 2020, we had the pleasure of Tom Geraghty who is the Open Innovation Labs Transformation Lead at Red Hat, to talk about Psychological Safety. We talk how having a psychologically safe environm...

Tom Hoyland of Sky Betting and Gaming joins us for this episode to talk about the Theory of Constraints from The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. We discuss how to increase the throughput for constraints to build high performing teams in agile engineering.

The final part of our Agile Principles series of episodes. In this episode we look at the final four principles of Agile to discuss what they might mean, and how we might live them in software engineering. Don’t forget, if you’re a fan of the podcast,

Following on from episode 6, we continue our exploration of the Agile Principles. In this episode we take a look at principles 5, 6, 7 and 8. We also take a look at what they mean to us, as well as insights into how we’ve used them in our own careers.

Following on from Agile 101 – The Agile Manifesto, we talk about the Agile principles; what they are, and deep dive into the first four of them and what they may mean. We also talk about how they’ve been lived or implemented in our experience.

This is the first episode in a series of episodes where we go back to basics and look at what Agile is. In this episode, we review the Agile Manifesto itself. We also discuss what it means to us, how it could be interpreted and what that looks like to ...

In this episode we discuss working as a distributed team and how remote work can impact teams. Co-incidentally, we also had to record this episode as a distributed team. We also talk about how long the co-located office has left as a place of work.

In this episode, we’re joined by guest host Devon Cockram, who is a Senior Product Owner at Impero Software. We discuss the role of product ownership and touch on how to write user stories. We also look at how to solve common issues around product owne...

DevOps means something different to everyone. This introduces some issues due to assumptions creeping in. We take a look at one of the biggest DevOps myths – DevOps as a job title. As part of our discussion we also look at whether DevOps is a specialis...

Get to to know the hosts as we discuss how to convince old-world developers that Agile isn’t hell. We also look at whether or not old-world is an appropriate description, and debate if a structured process is the right approach to securing their buy-in.

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