Developing Leadership
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How Many EMs to Change a Lightbulb?
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso explore the implications of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to flatten Meta's management layers and examine the current ratio of engineers to ma...
The Midwit Trap, & Why Tech Companies Are Falling For It
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eiso and Jason discuss how engineering leaders can fall into the trap of midwit thinking (the infamous bell curve meme) where they have a surface leve...
Mastering Leadership for High-Performing Teams with Sri Viswanath, former Atlassian CTO
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath shares his lessons on engineering leadership, such as aligning goals, handling difficult situations, and optimizing...
OK. Let’s talk about OKRs.
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso share their love-hate relationship with OKRs and discuss the pedantic nature of setting objectives and how they ultimately help to alig...
Placing Bets & Building Trust as an Engineering Leader
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso explore the intersection between finance and engineering leadership and discuss the importance of position sizing in engineering orgs. ...
Walking The Tightrope of Language & Culture (and why it’s hurting companies)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso get real about censorship culture in the tech industry. From free speech to the rights of employees and the role of companies in societ...
Can Sociopathic Leaders Teach Us Anything?
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso deep dive into corporate politics, hierarchies, and the sociopaths that often sit at the top as they analyze the behaviors of famous C-...
Creating Alignment in Superstar Engineering Teams with Phil Calçado
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Calçado is the Global CTO at PicPay, one the largest engineering orgs in Latin America. He joins the podcast to re-tell his war stories as an en...
F*ck Around and Find Out: The Recession & Engineering Leadership in 2023
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 2023! or is it?… Jason and Eiso talk about the economic recession and share their predictions for the year ahead. They chat about what happene...
From Bottle-feeding to Bottlenecks: Parenting & Engineering Leadership with Allison McMillan
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Allison McMillan, VP of Engineering at Quota Path, joins us to talk about the transformation engineering leaders go through when they become parents a...
Managing an Engineering Team in a Remote-First World with Alexandra Sunderland
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra is a Senior Engineering Manager at Fellow.app and the author of Remote Engineering Management: Managing an Engineering Team in a Remote-Firs...
Diversity: The Secret Sauce of Engineering Success, with Bethany Foote
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany Foote is the Head of Infrastructure Engineering at Outschool and has had a hell of a journey as a software engineer. She joins us to talk abou...
PMOs, Program Managers, and Slaying Reorgs with Shannon Vettes from BlaBlaCar
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon Vettes is a transversal Product and Engineering Leader and self-proclaimed "process nerd" with a knack for reorgs (as long as you reaally need...
How Engineering Leaders Can Inspire Action with Adrienne Lowe
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adrienne Lowe shares her journey as an empathetic leader and how her goal to give people energy (rather than take it away) paved her way through a suc...
Engineering Velocity: The Need for Speed in Software Engineering
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason & Eiso talk about Velocity in Software Engineering, what it means, how to measure it, why data and metrics won’t magically solve all your prob...
Building an Engineering Team in Japan with Kohsuke Kawaguchi
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how bu...
An Engineering Leader’s Search for Meaning with Chad Fowler
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Chad Fowler, Jason Warner, and Eiso Kant in a heartfelt existential episode on what it means to be an engineering leader that will have you quest...
The Power & Peril of Software Engineering Metrics with César Lugo from Typeform
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cesar Lugo, Software Engineer and founding member of the Engineering Intelligence team at Typeform, joins us to talk about the power of engineering me...
Consensus Driven Cultures, Dev Influencers & Capacity Planning
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso ad lib on a variety of topics. From consensus-driver cultures, the trouble with software engineering endorsements and capacity planning...
Reviving Engineering Teams & Overcoming the Fear of Shipping with Craig Kerstiens
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Kerstiens joins us for a chat on decalcifying engineering teams, why you need to get your teams to ship more, and finding A-Players. Craig runs ...
Leaders vs Managers & The Power of Sponsorship with Meri Williams
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meri Williams, one of the most inspiring engineering leaders in the world, joins us for a discussion on managers vs. leaders, coaching vs. mentoring, ...
What Motivates Engineering Leaders?
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso explore what motivates engineering leaders. They chat about how engineering value creation differs from other functions, what role ego ...
Untangling & Optimizing Your Software Engineering Cycles, with Charity Majors
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charity Majors, co-founder, and CTO of honeycomb.io, joins us to talk about everything that's wrong with engineering cycles, how throwing money at the...
How to Hire Engineers & Build Inclusive Teams with Dana Lawson from Netlify
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Lawson, SVP of Engineering at Netlify and the human incarnation of sunshine, joins us on the podcast to share her lessons on hiring engineers and...
Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Conner, Co-Founder and Engineering Leader at Levels, joins us to share his journey of leading an engineering team at a company with a strong ha...
Transitioning From a Holacracy to a Strong Engineering Leadership Culture with Katie Wilde from Ambassador Labs
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Wilde, the VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, joins us to spill the tea on Holacracy and decentralized management systems. Find out why these...
The Art of Building Software & Running Organizations with Wade Arnold from Moov
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Co-Founder and CEO of Moov Financial, Wade Arnold, has had a hell of a journey as a software engineering leader. He joins us on the podcast to chat ab...
Building Product Delivery Organizations with Jonathan Nolen from LaunchDarkly
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Jonathan Nolen, Senior VP of Engineering and Product at LaunchDarkly, to talk about his 100+ people Product Delivery team - a term coined b...
The Automagical Future of Software Engineering
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eiso and Jason step up to the mic to make their wild guess on how the state of software engineering will evolve, given what we know now. The tech indu...
Things That Drive Us Crazy in Software Engineering Leadership
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an episode dedicated to what we think the next generation of engineering leaders should avoid, Jason and Eiso talk about the books every engineerin...
The Rocky Road to Becoming an Engineering Leader with Nuno Antunes from Datadog
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Director of Engineering at Datadog, Nuno Antunes, joins us to talk about a highly requested topic: Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engi...
Building a Company Culture That Makes Sense with Sam Alba from Dagger
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dagger Co-Founder, and Docker’s former VP of Engineering, Sam Alba, joins us for a retrospective on company culture and how early-stage teams should...
Scaling Engineering Organizations with Erik Bernhardsson
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Bernhardsson joins us on the podcast to chat about building engineering teams and the delicate balance between innovation and productivity as org...
Remote Cultures & The Power of Storytelling with Michael Lopp, aka ”rands”
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Community creator and engineering leader at Apple, Michael Lopp (aka rands), joins Jason and Eiso to chat about the power of storytelling for engineer...
The Episode You Should Send to Your CEO
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On our 10th episode of Developing Leadership, Eiso and Jason present a conversation dedicated to CEOs and everything they need to know about their eng...
Building High-Performance Teams with Sam Lambert from PlanetScale
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Developing Leadership, Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale and previously VP of Engineering at GitHub, joins us to talk about building ...
A Deep Dive Into Engineering Leadership Roles, Part 3
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso wrap up their three-part series on Engineering Leadership roles by taking a deep dive into engineering managers and tech leads. Learn h...
A Deep Dive Into Engineering Leadership Roles, Part 2
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso continue their deep dive on different engineering leadership roles, sharing their thoughts on CTOs, VPs, and Managers, how to hire for ...
A Deep Dive Into Engineering Leadership Roles, Part 1
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Developing Leadership, we kick off our deep-dive series on different Engineering Leadership roles. Jason and Eiso discuss how CTOs,...
Should Engineers be Masters of None? with Anton Drukh from Snyk
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Former GM of Snyk, Anton Drukh, recently became a mentor for VPs of Engineering and joined us on this week's episode to discuss his experiences leadin...
Rethinking Your Role as a Leader with Emil Eifrem from Neo4j
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neo4j just raised the biggest round in database history and their CEO, Emil Eifrem, joins us on the podcast to tell us about his experience transition...
The Art of Making Good Decisions
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason and Eiso share the frameworks that have helped them navigate big and small decisions through the years and look back at how key decision-making ...
The Growing Pains of Company Culture
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we make sure that we are deliberate about the culture of our organization and not find ourselves pushing for outcomes without care of how we ac...
A Changing Engineering Landscape
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Developing Leadership, Eiso Kant and Jason Warner talk about how the roles and perceptions of engineers and engineering leader...