Show 500! SPaMCAST 001 went live on Sunday January 28, 2007 at 9:28 PM - it has been a great journey from then to now! The first interview was a two-parter with Will McKnight. Give it a listen at https://bit.ly/2lryNaC. Show 500, SPaMCAST 500, Episode 500, #500 (I will probably say that 500 more times this week) features our interview with Marcus Blankenship. Marcus and I talked teams and what makes a team good. We also discussed who owns the behaviors and values of a team. Team are core to most software development, enhancements, and maintenance. Understanding how teams work and how to make them work better makes ABSOLUTE sense. Marcus provides great thoughts and advice on agile teams. I am thrilled that Marcus joined the SPaMCAST family on show 500! Marcus helps CTO's fire-up their dev teams by creating an environment where everyone can fully participate in problem solving. He helps great engineers become the great leader that their team deserves. Links: Join Marcus's list for articles on leading developers: https://marcusblankenship.com/ Tech Leader Fortune Cookies: https://marcusblankenship.com/tech-leader-fortune-cookies Twitter: https://twitter.com/justzeros Medium: https://medium.com/@justzeros Book: Habits That Ruin Your Technical Team. Listeners of the podcast will receive 30% off with discount code SPAMCAST. Show: UNSTUCK: The Tech Leader Q&A Show - Live call-in show for technical managers every Friday at 10am Pacific. Re-Read Saturday News This week we are full ahead in our re-read of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! We continue the story of the USSN Santa Fe with Chapters 22 and 23. These two chapters focus on how an organization's legacy can be used to shape deliberate actions and why principles have to be tied to behavior and decisions to be useful. Pick the next book in the re-read series. I will cut the poll off on 2 July. [polldaddy poll=10037032] Current Installment: Week 15: A Remembrance of War and Leadership at Every Level - https://bit.ly/2Imi5lS Previous Installments: Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https:/ /bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgx Week 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 501 will feature our essay on Hard Questions and Agile Metrics. We will also have columns from Jeremy Berriault and Susan Parente!