Matt Makai joins us to discuss Developer Relations and Developer Evangelists, their roles in tech companies, and how to hire for them. Matt has been at Twilio since 2014, where he currently is the Senior Director of Builder Content, and he leads teams that bring all of their excellent developer content to their users. Matt […]

Professor Ryan Nelson of the UVA McIntire School of Commerce joins us to discuss IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices. Why are only 35% of projects successful? We discuss what he's learned about project management over 30 years of research and case studies.

Dave Haeffner joins us to talk about his path from QA Analyst to Software Developer, and the challenges of reverse engineering legacy software applications to improve quality.

Sanjiv Augustine is the Founder and CEO of LitheSpeed, a world-leading agile training and consulting company; and an executive consultant and trusted advisor on business agility.

Daniel Vacanti is an expert Kanban thought leader, trainer, consultant, and co-host of the "Drunk Agile" podcast. Dan joined David and Arin to discuss Predicability in Kanban. They covered a wide range of topics from why cycle time is really just a measurement of time to feedback, flow metrics in Kanban, and how the most effective teams often combine aspects of Scrum and Kanban.

The inaugural episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast is an introduction to the co-hosts, Arin Sime and David Alfaro. They share the goals they have for this podcast, how they met and built a software development and staffing firm in 2011, and their personal stories. There is no guest on this episode, but it's a great way to get to know the hosts before diving into the rest of our episodes on how to scale your tech team!