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- Episode 43: Future of software engineering leadership - Part 1
"It's not enough just being right. You've got to actually convince people of your way of thinking and take other people on the journey".
Off Script is back with Josh and James hosting the first episode in a massive two-parter!
They take lessons and hot topics from the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode.
Part 2 out soon! Subscribe so you don’t miss it.
Recorded: 27th November 2024
- Recap
- re:invent festival
- AI announcements
- Event themes
- Remote & Hybrid working
- Slack working dynamics
- Methods of communication
- Importance of communication
- Huddle to convey tone of information
- Reduce crosstalk and chatter
- Mandating behaviour vs Encouraging participation
- Sarah Wells Talk - Nudge Theory - LINK
- Make it easy for people to do the right thing
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Hiring policies
- Soft Skills in hybrid working
- Empowering vs washing hands of decisions
- AI
- Important to understand the black box
- Using AI for leadership decisions
Reference
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcgywwC4u8
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
28 min - Episode 42: Imperfect innovation
The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss.
Recorded: 17th July 2024
- 02 Open AI fearless implementation
- 03 Is developing in a vacuum worse?
- 04 Google move fast and break things becomes more dangerous
- 05 OpenAI haven't lost trust yet
- 06 How did OpenAI get its data - Mira Murati
- 09 Scraping the internet for data
- 10 A open internet vs private companies
- 10 ARC browser hover LLM description
- 11 Imperfect innovation, where does it come from?
- 11 Innovating to solve a problem vs innovation into unknown areas
- 12 Microsoft Copilot AI
- 13 ChatGPT taking over Google as the go-to for questions
- 16 Kodak & digital images
- 18 Humans bring value and craft
- 19 The iPhone was a ipod killer
- 20 Fearing innovation and protectionism
- 21 Nokia's lack of smartphone innovation
- 25 Theranos - Fake it till you make it in medicine
- 28 Now no one will touch the Metaverse
- 29 Zoe smart patch and gut tracking
- 35 Lime Scooters late night testing for alcohol
- 36 Innovation that's not required
- 37 Coke's new flavour
- 39 Segway
- 42 Cars
- 43 Napster's innovation
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
49 min - Episode 41: WWDC 2024 round-up
Jack Sails (IMA) is back with James & Josh to discuss the recent WWDC24 Apple Developer conference. Was AI the word of the conference? Find out as they work through everything revealed this year and how it will affect their products going forward.
In this episode:
- 00 Intro
- 01 Apple Intelligence
- 02 AI & Apple’s Privacy first approach
- 04 SIRI & Natural language AI integration
- 06 Natural language vs pre scripted
- 09 Image Playground AI image creator
- 10 SIRI x Open AI
- 12 Genmoji
- 12 IOS 18
- 16 Transcribed calls
- 17 New apps
- 18 New password app
- 21 Sequoia macOS
- 23 Does the UK follow the EU restrictions
- 24 Supporting old hardware
- 29 Vision OS 2
References:
- https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/wwdc/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
33 min - Episode 40: Shifting security left
Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script!
In this episode:
- 00:00 Fictional Bugs - Investments Unlimited
- 01:00 DevSecOps
- 02:00 Moving security testing to the beginning
- 03:00 Reducing the friction of releases
- 04:00 Go through pain points early
- 05:00 Strict linting, function length, no unused variables
- 06:00 Early automated tests to prevent Git leaks
- 08:00 Making it easy for the developer
- 10:00 Bearer
- 11:00 Concise reporting
- 12:00 Dependabot
- 13:00 Secret Management
- 14:00 Making it easy to do the right thing
- 16:00 Having pride in your security
- 17:00 What if your language doesn’t have much security support?
- 19:00 Dynamic & Static languages
- 20:00 Language agnostic tools
- 21:00 Key takeaways
References:
- https://itrevolution.com/product/investments-unlimited/
- https://www.bearer.com/
- https://github.com/dependabot
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
25 min - Episode 39: The beauty of side projects
What do fish donuts, a passion for cooking and elaborate recipes have to do with productivity? Are you getting enough of a creative outlet around your busy schedule? Josh and James discuss the importance of side projects and how the variety they add to your week benefits your work-life balance and output!
In this episode:
- 00:00 Welcome
- 01:00 What are our side projects?
- 02:00 Coding
- 03:00 Cooking
- 04:00 Josh’s chef stage experience
- 11:00 Service state - Flow state when coding
- 12:00 Find your creative outlet
- 13:00 Find the time
- 16:00 Adding variety to life
- 17:00 Book - One Thing
- 18:00 Having side projects when being a leader
- 19:00 Consistency
References:
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-bestselling/dp/1848549253
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
23 min - Episode 38: AI risks
What are AI risks? What do we need to consider when looking at our projects? Josh and James are are back for another episode of Off Script to dig deeper into this important topic!
- 00 - ISO 42001 Regulation
- 03 - What are the risks
- 04 - Hallucinations
- 05 - How do we critically assess the output
- 06 - Human in the loop
- 08 - Authorised API integrations
- 13 - Prompt Injection
- 14 - Sleeper agent LLM
- 18 - Denial OF Service models
- 22 - Exact phrasing on outputs
- 25 - Rabbit.tech
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
29 min - Episode 37: 2023 developer round-up
It’s time for our annual review of the year! In this episode, James and Josh discuss the many twists and turns that the last 12 months brought in this 2023 developer round-up.
Thank you for listening this year. We’ll be back with more episodes in the New Year!
- 01 A look back at the year
- 03 The year AI went mainstream
- 05 Tech layoffs
- 07 Open AI x Microsoft partnership
- 08 M2 Apple Mac chips
- 09 Google Bard
- 12 Stephen Wolfram wrote "What is ChatGPT doing.. And why does it work?"
- 13 Web IOS & Ipad
- 15 ChatGPT Plus & Whisper API's
- 15 Parallax hosted "stories on the road"
- 19 React.dev
- 21 Apple vs Epic Games
- 22 Meta fined 1.3B
- 23 EU Cookie policy
- 24 Final Cut & Logic Pro on IOS
- 27 Advent of code
- 28 Chrome added web GPU support
- 29 Native to web based apps
- 30 All Day Hey 2023
- 31 Fluency Bot
- 32 SEC sue Coinbase & Binance
- 33 NASA lost connection to Voyager 2
- 34 Microsoft Type Chat
- 36 Meta Launched Threads
- 38 Temporary disabilities
- 40 Josh joins Glean as CTO
- 41 Apple launched Name Drop
- 42 Air traffic control meltdown
- 43 Hyperdx
- 44 Webflow Conf
- 46 WCAG 2.2
- 47 M3 Macs
- 49 re:invent
- 50 Deno KV
- 51 StyleX
- 53 iA writer
- 54 CloudFlare year in review
- 55 Spotify Wrapped
References:
- [https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/]([https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/)
- https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis
- https://www.storyblok.com/ev/stories-on-the-road-uk-23
- https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023/schedule
- https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
59 min - Episode 36: Tech leadership misconceptions
Are all leaders extroverts? Does agile development mean there is no plan or documentation? Do leaders have to be the best developer? Following on from a recent in-person talk, James and Josh discuss more common tech misconceptions in the area of leadership.
- 01 Misconception in leadership
- 01 Leadership is the only way for progression
- 02 Tech path vs management path
- 03 Dual track progression
- 04 Good code is all that matters
- 05 How teams interact
- 06 We'll cross the bridge when its comes to it
- 09 Have to be the best engineer to be a leader
- 10 It’s not about you
- 11 Tech skills trump company culture
- 12 Diversity
- 14 More developers = more velocity
- 17 Documentation is less important for agile teams
- 19 Agile development means no plan
- 22 All leaders are extroverts
- 25 Leadership is lonely
- 27 You don't need a mentor or peers
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
31 min - Episode 35: Understanding emotional states
Any team will have a variety of emotional states when responding to problems. How do you analyse, understand and make meaningful decisions based on these differences? In this episode, James and Josh discuss different methods of understanding a team’s characteristics and how taking these into account can lead you to getting the best out of everyone.
- 01 SDIs
- 01 Strength, Deployment, Inventory
- 02 Stress states
- 05 Trickle down management
- 06 Myers briggs
- 07 Performance, Process, People
- 08 Dissecting Josh’s results
- 12 Using the results within a team
- 13 Strengths and weaknesses
- 14 What brings out the best in you
- 15 Being accountable
- 16 Applying the findings
Resources:
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
18 min - Episode 34: Building communities
What are the steps to building a thriving community? What challenges might you face along the way? In this episode, James and Josh draw on their experience of creating and building communities online and offline, sharing their insights on how to make it a success.
- 04 Starting a community
- 06 Building trust
- 08 Give value, not a sales pitch
- 10 Josh on building a conference
- 12 Creating a welcoming environment
- 15 Letting people know your weaknesses
- 16 Trust
- 17 Empathy
- 18 Dealing with conflict
- 20 Don’t fear conflict
- 22 Lack of commitment or direction
- 23 Inclusion
- 24 Avoidance of accountability
- 26 The enemy of accountability is ambiguity
- 27 Shared ownership
- 30 Rethinking views
- 31 Diversity
Resources:
- https://www.executiveagenda.com/resources/blog/five-dysfunctions-team
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
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Hosted by CTOs Josh Nesbitt and James Hall, Off Script brings you unfiltered conversations about the highs, lows, and lessons of working in tech today. From leading engineering teams and scaling…
companies, to tackling burnout, bad bets, and breakthrough ideas, this is the show where raw honesty meets experience. Alongside one-on-one conversations between Josh and James, you’ll hear from leaders, builders, designers, and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to share what’s really going on behind the scenes — the conversations usually left for DMs, side chats, and after-hours drinks. Whether you’re building your first product or leading a fast-growing team, Off Script gives you a raw and refreshing perspective on the challenges and creativity that shape modern tech. New episodes every few weeks. Subscribe and join the conversation.
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