Agile is more than just a buzzword. It’s an intuitive methodology that offers practical solutions to enterprises by simply breaking a big thing into smaller, more manageable chunks. Today on the Scaling Tech podcast, Arin welcomes David Asch to take a deep dive into agile methods. David is currently the Founder of 10xPrinciples, a consulting […]

David and Arin reflect on the lessons learned from the past nine episodes of the Scaling Tech Podcast in our third season. We recap lessons from all of our guests, covering topics that include mentoring engineering managers, scaling agile, software estimation and predictability, software security and site reliability engineering, engineering team health and offsites, data […]

Forecasting is inherently probabilistic – meaning that we cannot say anything definitively about the future, we can only give the probability that something may happen. This is intrinsic to software development but a hard concept to convey to those who just want to know “when will the work be done?”. In this conversation we speak […]

Scaling technology is one thing, but scaling technical teams is quite another. In this episode, we talk with author Jurgen Appelo about his “unFIX” pattern for scaling agile teams. We talk about the challenges of scaling agile teams, team empowerment, innovation, managers and mentoring. Jurgen is author of multiple books, including “Management 3.0” and most […]

How do you engineer your systems to be highly reliable, especially in a regulated environment like healthcare? Dr Vladyslav Ukis joins us on this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast to explain the concepts of Site Reliability Engineering, how to choose and manage Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets, and how to combine it with […]

Building a good team is like solving a puzzle, as our guest Allison McMillan describes in this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast. Allison is an engineering leadership consultant who works as a fractional VP of Engineering, and also consults to companies on Engineering Team Health and highly effective Team Offsites. Allison shares with us […]

What is the future of AI, and how will it affect the way that we conduct work? In this episode we speak with an expert in the field: Vijay Parthasarathy, Head of AI and ML at Zoom. Vijay will draw on his experiences in AI at Zoom, Meta, and Apple, as well as the unique […]

In today’s world, data is no longer the purview of data scientists alone. Data is Everybody’s Business, which is also the title of Professor Barb Wixom’s new book from MIT Press. On Episode 24, we learn how to monetize data via Improving, Wrapping, and Selling. Barb talks with us about acceptable data use, and shares […]

To achieve software resilience, you must design in security, and treat it as part of software quality. In episode 23 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, author and security expert Kelly Shortridge shares with hosts Arin Sime and David Alfaro exactly how to do that.They cover topics such as the philosophy of software resilience, Evaluation and […]

Most of us have a love/hate relationship with software estimation. Estimation is an important skill, but it’s often misused and misunderstood, especially in unhealthy team cultures. When used properly, it can be a powerful tool for team communication and to enable good business decision making. In this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast, we speak […]