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By Henry Suryawirawan

Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.

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#109 - A Strengths-Based Approach to Leadership - Brandon Miller

Brandon Miller is the founder and CEO of 34 Strong and one of the first 7 certified Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder coaches in the world. In this episode, Brandon introduced what CliftonStrengths is and why it is important for us to recognize and focus on our strengths in both our personal and work lives.

#108 - Building the Future of Cloud Engineering With Pulumi - Joe Duffy

Joe Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. In this episode, Joe shared the concept of cloud engineering as the next evolution of DevOps and explained how it changes the way we build, deploy, and manage infrastructure and application in the product development lifecycle.

#107 - Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale - Zhamak Dehghani

Zhamak Dehghani is the author of the “Data Mesh” book. In this episode, we discussed in-depth about the data mesh, a concept she founded in 2018, and why organizations should adopt it to generate data-driven values at scale.

#106 - Company-wide Agility With BOSSA Nova - Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein is a coach, consultant, and trainer helping teams and organizations worldwide making an Agile transition. In this episode, Jutta broke down BOSSA nova and explained each concept and principles of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy, and Agile.

#105 - Coaching for Technical Leaders - Bob Galen

Bob Galen is the President & Principal Agile Coach at RGCG and a prolific writer, blogger, and podcaster. In this episode, Bob and I discussed coaching and leadership from his latest book “Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching” and why he suggests that coaching is an essential core leadership skill.

#104 - Growing Through Experimentation - Lisi Hocke

Lisi Hocke is an active figure in the global testing community. In this episode, Lisi shared her lessons learned growing an experiment-driven quality culture and her personal transformation journey learning in public and growing her technical confidence.

#103 - Software Development Pearls - Karl Wiegers

Karl Wiegers is the author of “Software Development Pearls” and a Principal Consultant at Process Impact. In this episode, Karl shared some lessons he has learned over the past five decades of his career.

#102 - Building Inspired & Empowered Product Teams - Marty Cagan

Marty Cagan is the founder of SVPG and the author of “Inspired” and “Empowered”. In this episode, we discussed how companies ought to build great products by learning from the best product companies and how to create an empowered product team by having clear product vision and strategy.

#101 - My Engineering Leadership Story & 100 Episodes Reflection - Henry Suryawirawan

Henry Suryawirawan is the host of the Tech Lead Journal podcast. In this episode, hosted by Jerome Poudevigne, we uncovered lessons from Henry’s career journey and from running the Tech Lead Journal podcast.

#100 - Modern Software Engineering - Dave Farley

Dave Farley is the co-author of “Continuous Delivery” book and runs the popular “Continuous Delivery” YouTube channel. In this episode, we discussed Dave's latest book, “Modern Software Engineering”, on how to build better software faster by becoming experts at learning and managing complexity.