In this episode we talk about mental health, vulnerability as manager, burnout, therapy, and personal growth.

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In this meandering episode we discuss feeling like a team when you're virtual, virtual conferences, and RubyDay in particular.

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In this episode we talk to CTO Niels Liebisch about his management philosophy, handling outages, hiring, and bridging the gap between development and other departments.

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In this episode we talk about the monolith, SOA, microservices, and why each makes sense under certain circumstances. We cover the technical aspects as well as the organizational components of choosing an approach.

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In this episode we discuss knowledge silos, how to avoid them, and when they are actually useful.

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In this episode we talk about working remotely. How it changed for some who have been doing it before, and the experiences of newcomers.

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We discuss CVs and the differences between managerial ones and those for ICs as well as the difficulties that can happen when employees leave and how to avoid them.

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In this episode we answer our first listener question! We talk about a team that's distributed across many time zones and then end up discussing working fully async (instead of just working remotely).

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In this episode we discuss the difficulties of communicating technical projects to other teams and to the company as a whole as well as what the difference is between having a role and having a title.

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Monica and Urban discussion estimations, the dangers around them, and how to do them right ... if you really have to.

The concept of slack in Kanban

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The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).