Episodes

Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
How Engineering Leaders Can Inspire Action with Adrienne Lowe
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
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 success engineering leadership career.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep31
Watch this episode on youtube: https://youtu.be/pmldFEnT7Xc
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Engineering Velocity: The Need for Speed in Software Engineering
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
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 problems, and what engineering leaders can do for their teams to go faster.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep30
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Building an Engineering Team in Japan with Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how building two very different engineering organizations from the ground up showed him the importance of diversity in engineering teams.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep29
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
An Engineering Leader’s Search for Meaning with Chad Fowler
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
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 question if the manager path is the right one for you. An essential listen for anyone trying to find meaning in their role.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep28
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
The Power & Peril of Software Engineering Metrics with César Lugo from Typeform
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Cesar Lugo, Software Engineer and founding member of the Engineering Intelligence team at Typeform, joins us to talk about the power of engineering metrics and how data can help influence how organizations behave. Learn about continuous improvement frameworks that work and why industry benchmarks fall short of their goal to help engineering organizations thrive.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep27
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Consensus Driven Cultures, Dev Influencers & Capacity Planning
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Jason and Eiso ad lib on a variety of topics. From consensus-driver cultures, the trouble with software engineering endorsements and capacity planning best practices.
Warning: Eiso recorded this episode from a boat out at sea (ahoy!), so that’s why you can sometimes hear background noises coming from his side. We apologize for this and will try to keep all recording sessions on land from now on.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep26
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
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 product and engineering at Crunchy Data and has been incredibly influential in the Postgres community.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep25
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Leaders vs Managers & The Power of Sponsorship with Meri Williams
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Meri Williams, one of the most inspiring engineering leaders in the world, joins us for a discussion on managers vs. leaders, coaching vs. mentoring, how leaders can advise team members from different backgrounds, and the power of sponsorship.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep24
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
What Motivates Engineering Leaders?
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Jason and Eiso explore what motivates engineering leaders. They chat about how engineering value creation differs from other functions, what role ego plays as a motivating factor, engineering leadership role models, and more.
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep23
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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com

Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Untangling & Optimizing Your Software Engineering Cycles, with Charity Majors
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
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 problem by hiring more people is making it worse, and what we can do about it.
Find out:
- How to create systems that increase software engineering productivity,
- Which toolsets can enable shorter feedback loops,
- How elite teams have figured it out,
- How infrastructure engineering is key to all of this and more!
Deep dive into the topics discussed in this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep22
Join the discussion and follow us on twitter @ devleadership_
Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.com