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.
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.
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.
Kenneth Pugh is the author of “Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development” and thought leader on ATTD and BDD. In this episode, Ken explained in-depth the concept of acceptance tests and ATDD and shared why they are beneficial for delivering better software.
Kurt Bittner is the author and editor of many books on agile product development, including co-authoring the recent “Professional Agile Leader” book. In this episode, we discussed the importance of empiricism in agility and the important role of catalytic leadership in building self-managing teams.
Jim Benson is the co-author of “Personal Kanban” and is currently working on his upcoming book “The Collaboration Equation”. In this episode, we discussed Personal Kanban, the collaboration equation, and the concept of collaborative leadership.
Alex Hidalgo is the Principal Reliability Advocate at Nobl9 and author of “Implementing Service Level Objectives”. In this episode, we discussed the practical guide on how to implement SRE culture, which includes implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to maintain our service reliability.
Jeff Perry is an engineering coach, the founder of More Than Engineering and the co-host of the Engineering Career Coach podcast. In this episode, Jeff shared the important role of a coach or mentor in our engineering career.
Patrick Kua is a seasoned technology leader with over 20+ years of experience in various tech leadership positions. In this episode, we discussed Pat’s latest course, Engineering Manager Essentials, which covers all the building blocks required to be an effective and successful Engineering Manager.
Dave Thomas is the founder & chairman of Bedarra Corp, creator of IBM Smalltalk, VisualAge for Java, Eclipse, Kx Analyst workbench and Skills Matter YOW! Australia conferences. In this episode, Dave shared about his personal research, 42D, on ideas we can use to develop high-value software rapidly.
Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin are the co-authors of several books on Agile Testing and the co-founders of Agile Testing Fellowship. In this episode, Janet and Lisa shared in-depth about agile testing and holistic testing concepts, and shared their perspectives on exploratory testing and testing in production.
