Making Tech Better - Made Tech

To celebrate Women in Engineering day on 23rd June, Clare Sudbery talks to Anne-Marie Imafidon about why women need to be in the room at all levels of technology, and to some of our female senior engineers about their experiences in the industry.

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE is the CEO of Stemettes, the host of the Women Tech Charge podcast, and in 2020 was voted the Most Influential Woman in Tech in the UK by Computer Weekly.

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Episode links: Stemettes, Let it Go / So to Speak (Dame Stephanie Shirley), Gladys West, Women Tech Charge podcast, Charlene Hunter / Coding Black Females, Invisible Women, AImafidon on Twitter, Anne-Marie on Instagram, Anne-Marie's book, Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories. Visit https://tinyurl.com/podcast-making-tech-better for links and info.

Change is a balancing act - how do you help teams get better without causing chaos? Join Kevlin and host Clare Sudbery as they talk about how teams learn and evolve, the importance of autonomy, and why train stations keep an eye out for “a Kevlin Henney”.

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer in software development. He’s written and edited many great books, including 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.

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Our theme tune is “For The Miles” by Richard Murray.

Episode links: Linda Rising, Russel Winder. Visit https://tinyurl.com/podcast-making-tech-better for links and info.

Organisations are complex adaptive systems - they change constantly as a result of the interactions between teams and individuals. Esther Derby joins us to talk about how an understanding of Human Systems Dynamics can help you to spot dysfunctional patterns of behaviour and help people to find positive ways of connecting with one another.

Acclaimed expert and author, Esther Derby draws on four decades of experience leading, observing, and living organizational change.

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Episode links: GeePaw Hill, Ron Jeffries, Jessica Kerr, Peter Senge, Glenda Eoyang, Esther’s YouTube, Change the World for a Fiver, Kat Arney. Visit https://tinyurl.com/podcast-making-tech-better for links and info.

Retrospectives are fantastic tools for emphasising your team's strengths and identifying areas for improvement. But do your team appreciative their usefulness and know how to harness their full power? Aino Corry talks about problematic retrospectives - how to spot them and how to improve them.

Aino Vonge Corry has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and runs Metadeveloper, which develops developers by teaching CS and how to teach it, and facilitates software development in various ways.

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Episode links: Retrospectives Antipatterns book, Linda Rising, Project Retrospectives by Norm Kerth, Agile Retrospectives by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby, The prime directive, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Visit https://tinyurl.com/podcast-making-tech-better for links and info.

Is your technology toxic? Clare Sudbery talks to Dave Rogers about how surprisingly willing people can be to work around rubbish technology rather than try and fix it. Dave tells us about the cultural and financial causes that can lead to wrong solutions and bad support structures.

Dave Rogers is a technology and digital specialist, with leadership experience in digital delivery and transformation, user-centred service and policy design, and cyber security.

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Episode links: Abisọla Fátókun, Hospital technology video, St Johns Ambulance. Visit https://tinyurl.com/podcast-making-tech-better for links and info.

How do you upgrade technology for a modern urban council authority, while simultaneously keeping spending within reasonable limits and looking after the diverse needs of your citizens? Clare Sudbery talks to Kit Collingwood about the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s new tech strategy, and the people that really matter – the population of Greenwich.

Kit Collingwood is Assistant Director for Digital and Customer Services at the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London. She is passionate about better service delivery, diverse and inclusive teams, working in the open, contributing to community, and empathetic leadership.

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Episode links: Kylie Havelock, Dave Rogers, Cassie Robinson, RBG 1, RBG 2. Visit https://tinyurl.com/making-tech-better for links, feedback form and info.

What’s the difference between coding for fun and coding for your job? Clare Sudbery chats to Jon Skeet, who is famous for the book C# in depth and infamous for his Stack Overflow contributions. Clare and Jon talk about Jon’s open source contributions, his side project (a drum kit explorer), and how this work connects with his day job as a Google engineer.

Jon Skeet‘s Twitter profile describes him as “Christian, husband (of Holly Webb, the children’s author), father, feminist, software engineer (currently at Google), author, @stackoverflow contributor. He/him.” Jon works on the Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET, and other things like the .NET Functions Framework.

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Episode links: Eric Lippert, Mads Torgerson, C# in depth, Everyday sexism, Huit Enfants et un Bebe. Visit https://tinyurl.com/making-tech-better for links and info.

What does transformation mean to you? Clare Sudbery speaks to Paula Paul about her long experience of software modernisation. Paula explains the difference between adaptive and technical problems, discusses the challenges involved in moving systems to the cloud, and introduces the strangler pattern as a way of gradually introducing new ways of working.

Paula Paul is a Distinguished Engineer with Greyshore Associates, where she works with organizations pursuing cloud adoption strategies and implementation. She’s had roles in product development, engineering management, consulting, and she’s led several modernization efforts along the way.

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Episode links: Strangler pattern, Ruth Malan, Fred Brooks, Buckminster Fuller, UK blood donation. Visit https://tinyurl.com/making-tech-better for links and info.

Do your teams embrace learning? Clare Sudbery catches up with Jessica Kerr and asks her what symmathesy is. Jess tells us how we are constantly creating the next versions of ourselves; how we can enhance the learning feedback loop and build better collaboration – both within and between our teams.

Jessica Kerr is a software developer who works on the larger sociotechnical system: a Symmathecist, in the medium of code. Find her at jessitron.com, on twitter as @jessitron, occasionally on Twitch as Jessitronica, hosting podcasts on Greater than Code and Arrested DevOps, and leading workshops at systemsthinking.dev.

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Episode links: Eric Evans, Jabe Bloom, Kent Beck, Hillel Wayne, Honeycomb. Visit https://tinyurl.com/making-tech-better for links and info.

Let’s make tech even better!

Coming soon: Made Tech’s new podcast, Making Tech Better.

Luckily for all of us, there are tons of passionate experts out there just bursting to share what they know about improving software delivery. Every fortnight, Clare Sudbery and other members of our team will interview enthusiastic practitioners from all over the world.

We want you to come away from our podcasts with a smile on your face, a spring in your step and a bunch of useful new ideas in your back pocket - not just for your software delivery, but for your whole life.

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