Episode 9: The Theory of Constraints with Tom Hoyland

Discover effective recruitment approaches in software engineering. Context, diversity, and personal fit: the keys to building the right team.

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 ...