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Why is product management the perfect background for a STEM ambassador? In this final episode of Season One Clare Sudbery talks to Karl Dickman, Senior Product Manager at the Department for Work and Pensions, about what good product management
What is servant leadership, and how can you use it to help your teams fly? Clare Sudbery talks to Katy Armstrong about how to empower teams to do their absolute best work, by removing blockers, identifying vision and giving them everything they
What does the current landscape look like for LGBT+ people working in IT? Clare Sudbery talks to Alex Herbert about some inspirational LGBT+ figures in our industry, and about how employees and colleagues can create a welcoming environment to e
How is Open Source Software maintained? Clare Sudbery talks to Ryan Bergman about the OSS landscape – how open source is licensed and maintained, how to respond to security threats and why continuous integration improves your ability to keep ev
How do you make your teams inclusive? Clare Sudbery talks to Dr. J Harrison about mental health, pronouns, the difference between diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, creating safe spaces and how to be an ally to those in under-represente
What is hexagonal architecture, and how can it help to make your code more testable? Clare Sudbery talks to Ted M. Young about the benefits and principles of hexagonal architecture, and how it enables you to keep your domain logic independent f
How can you avoid designing harmful experiences? Product designer Catt Small talks to Clare Sudbery about her journey from 10-yr-old game developer to successful product designer, and shares many inspirational stories – including the creation o
What does a good service look like? Clare Sudbery talks to Lou Downe about why placing the user at the heart of everything will lead to good services that are discoverable, will cross organisational boundaries and do exactly what you need them
Are microservices all hype, or the best choice for delivering software? Kyle Chapman talks to Sam Newman about architectural thought, the importance of experimentation, and some classic technology patterns.Sam Newman literally wrote the book o
How do you recruit and train new software engineers? At Made Tech we run a regular academy programme, which allows us to address the IT skills shortage, increase diversity and reap many more benefits. Clare Sudbery talks to Craig Bass about how
What is refactoring, why is it important and how can you get really good at it? Clare Sudbery talks to Emily Bache about enhancing the skills and culture of your teams, to make your code easier to understand and cheaper to modify.Emily Bache i
When is a test not a test? Clare Sudbery talks to Daniel Terhorst-North about all things testing - including why unit tests are not tests, and why “Test Driven Development” would be better named “Example Guided Design.”Daniel Terhorst-North i
October is black history month, so in this themed episode Clare Sudbery talks to Charlene Hunter, about providing professional training opportunities that create positive experiences for Black women in the face of discrimination and under-repre
How should teams be organised for maximum effectiveness? How big should they be, where should the boundaries lie and how independent should they be? Clare Sudbery talks to Matthew Skelton about how to get the best from your teams.Matthew Skelt
What is Test Driven Development (TDD) and how can it speed up your software development? Clare Sudbery talks to Geepaw Hill about why he loves TDD so much and how he spreads that love to software teams all over the world.Geepaw Hill became a p
What is crowdsourcing, and how is it used to improve the British Library’s online cultural heritage collections? Clare Sudbery talks to crowdsourcing expert Mia Ridge about the power of volunteer digital engagement.Dr Mia Ridge is the British
What is crowdsourcing, and how is it used to improve the British Library’s online cultural heritage collections? Clare Sudbery talks to crowdsourcing expert Dr Mia Ridge about the power of volunteer digital engagement.Dr Mia Ridge is the Briti
How do you maximise digital accessibility, and how might your software be inaccessible? Clare Sudbery talks to Jonathan Hassell about considering and balancing the diverse needs of all digital users.Jonathan Hassell provides strategic accessib
What does a good community of practice look like? Kyle Chapman talks to Emily Webber about how we can use communities to facilitate good collaboration between our teams.Emily Webber is an independent agile and delivery consultant, conference s
How do you design public-facing services so that users get the best experiences? Clare Sudbery talks to Fritz von Runte about the difference between art and design, and how to make the most of service design with a collaborative, multi-discipli
What can you learn from working with legacy code? Meri Williams talks to Clare Sudbery about respecting your predecessors, the impact of failure, the value delivered by the code that’s running right now, and the benefit of frequent software rel
To celebrate Women in Engineering day on 23rd June, Clare Sudbery talks to Anne-Marie Imafidon about why women need to be in the room at all levels of technology, and to some of our female senior engineers about their experiences in the industr
Change is a balancing act - how do you help teams get better without causing chaos? Join Kevlin and host Clare Sudbery as they talk about how teams learn and evolve, the importance of autonomy, and why train stations keep an eye out for “a Kevl
Organisations are complex adaptive systems - they change constantly as a result of the interactions between teams and individuals. Esther Derby joins us to talk about how an understanding of Human Systems Dynamics can help you to spot dysfuncti
Retrospectives are fantastic tools for emphasising your team's strengths and identifying areas for improvement. But do your team appreciative their usefulness and know how to harness their full power? Aino Corry talks about problematic retrospe
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