Getting promoted into management can be the most exciting and terrifying moment of a person’s career. On episode 21 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, hosts Arin Sime and David Alfaro speak with Leadership Coach Jen Dary about her work training and mentoring managers, and the particularly difficult aspects of being a first time manager.

David and Arin reflect on the lessons learned from the nine episodes of the Scaling Tech Podcast that made up our second season. These include some of the best advice from our guests on topics like engineering management, remote teams, team culture, leadership, infrastructure management, and hiring and onboarding.

How did you learn to become an engineering manager? If you’re like most people, you were largely self taught. Engineering managers are often promoted from senior engineering roles and they have probably not been taught best practices in managing teams. In this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast, we talk with engineering leader and author […]

The notion of stable teams is fundamental to a lot of management advice, but unrealistic. Change is constant, and our teams are no exception. Therefore it’s necessary to be more thoughtful and proactive about team change instead of taking a purely reactive stance. Heidi Helfand is the author of “Dynamic Reteaming”, and she shares with […]

It’s one thing to be able to work well in a remote team, but what about leading remote teams? Leading a remote team requires extra attention on team culture, meeting rules, servant leadership, and coaching and mentoring your team. Chris Dyer is the co-author of “Remote Work” and an international keynote speaker, consultant and best […]

What do you do when you’re told “No”? We have all dealt with legacy applications that we want to upgrade or replace. Sometimes upper management does not approve of your modernization plans, and when that happens, what should you do next? David and Arin speak with The CTO Advisor, Keith Townsend, on the latest in […]

It’s not easy to find enough high-quality technical talent, and Latin America and the Caribbean are an increasingly important region to find skilled technical talent. David and Arin have significant experience with Nearshoring themselves in their business AgilityFeat, and in this episode we speak with another industry expert. Kirk Laughlin is the founder and Chief […]

Do we still need to talk about Agile methodologies, or is it just the way we work now? Have we just bought into the hype and lost sight of the most important thing: delivering value? In this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast, hosts Arin Sime and David Alfaro speak with Bob Payne, SVP for […]

On episode 13 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, hosts Arin and David speak to workplace culture expert and author of "Remote Not Distant", Gustavo Razzetti. They discuss discuss key mindset shifts for remote teams, psychological safety, blameless postmortems, asynch vs synchronous collaboration modes, and more.

Distributed teams are a necessity in modern software development, but it’s not easy! In this episode, Arin and David speak with Johanna Rothman, who is also known as the Pragmatic Manager. She will share best practices on building successful distributed agile teams, as well as the traps to avoid!