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<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/2t1oNJohLkH0enfdjwEwLE?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><p>There’s an open secret about open source: Developers use it. Teams use it. Businesses use it. But no one really thinks about how they contribute to it.</p><p>That’s why we jumped at the chance to get a state-of-open-source discussion with Gitlab’s John Coghlan, Senior Manager of Developer Advocacy.</p><p>Someone who joined the open source community with the goal of making developers’ lives better, John came to the table with a wealth of insights into just how individual engineers leverage open source, how businesses leverage it and, most importantly, how to make our relationship with open source better - not just for you and me, but for the community as a whole.</p><p>We hope you find this candid conversation on how to be thinking about using open source in the right ways as empowering and insightful as we did!</p><h3>Episode Highlights Include:</h3><ul><li>(1:18) From Wall Street to GitLab</li><li>(5:02) Dev Relations? Dev Advocacy? What are we?</li><li>(7:57) John's start in open source</li><li>(14:00) How to start contributing to open source</li><li>(23:44) Open source contribution makes teams happier</li><li>(28:12) How open source has benefited GitLab</li></ul>

John Coghlan, Senior Manager of Developer Advocacy at GitLab, discusses the importance of open source contribution & how to get started.

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What a Healthy Relationship with Open Source Looks Like ft. GitLab's John Coghlan


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<p>Not all dev orgs work in all situations. Especially if your dev org is looking to completely reshape and disrupt an entire industry.</p>



<p>That’s why we were so excited to talk to Chris Bee, CTO of Lessen.</p>



<p>Lessen is looking to change the way property owners hire vetted professionals for renovation, maintenance and turn services. That means so much of what their programmers are building hasn’t been built before.</p>



<p>Chris opened up about how the company trains and empowers developers to design and build things customers didn’t know they wanted. He also goes in depth about how to bring those new ideas to market when it can seem like the ground is shifting every minute.</p>



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<ul><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(1:35) Growing opportunity to solve less obvious problems</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(6:32) Engineering ride-alongs</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(13:53) Choosing a market to disrupt</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(23:13) <a href="https://www.chrisbee.com/writings">Chris'</a> Discover/Design/Develop/Deploy model</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(29:27) Phased approach to building products and features</span></li><li>(36:35) Having engineers talk to customers &amp; vendors<strong><i data-stringify-type="italic"></i></strong></li></ul>



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Chris Bee, CTO at Lessen, joins us to discuss how he empowered his dev team to disrupt the $400b real estate industry.

How to Train Devs to Disrupt Industries w/ Lessen's CTO Chris Bee


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<p>Fact: There are guidebooks for everything in programming except for actually leading, managing and inspiring programmers.</p>



<p>That’s why I was so happy to have my friend Zach Goldberg on the podcast.</p>



<p>Someone who has made learning and self-improvement a core pillar of his professional and personal life, Zach Goldberg is someone who I turn to when I need to know who smart CTOs are turning to.</p>



<p>In this great conversation, Zach talks about the most important things he’s learned in separating signal from noise in the realm of engineering leadership. He also provides some amazing guidance on who you should be listening to (when you’re not listening to us). Enjoy.</p>



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<ul><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2:20) There are few truths in software engineering</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(11:45) How <a href="https://www.audible.com/">Audible</a> changed Zach's life</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(17:22) The teachings of <a href="https://martinfowler.com/">Martin Fowler</a></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(21:09) Applying <a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html">ship/show/ask</a> to your team</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(32:05) Transformation: shipping once a month to daily</span></li><li>(47:11) Imperative engineers be fluent in architecture<strong><i data-stringify-type="italic"></i></strong></li></ul>



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Zach Goldberg CTO at Dama Financial joins DI to talk about the few truths in software engineering & the need for a CTO playbook.

Creating a Better CTO Playbook w/ Dama Financial's CTO Zach Goldberg

Leaders from Slack, Netlify & Ambassador labs discuss burnout & dev toil in a panel discussion from April's Interact conference.

The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard

The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify &#038; Ambassador Labs


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<p>In an industry that has trouble looking beyond the next sprint, it’s good to know there are very smart people researching the conscious and unconscious pain points keeping devs from focusing on what they actually want to do: code.</p>



<p>In our new series Dev Interrupted Labs we’ll be looking at the most interesting research on how devs work, communicate and code.</p>



<p>The best way to start should be understanding what is actually a well-performing engineering org versus one that’s struggling. That’s why we’re so excited to have Ori Keren, co-founder of <a href="https://linearb.io/">LinearB</a>, as our first guest to discuss the results of the first-ever “<a href="http://linearb.io/benchmarks/">Engineering Benchmarks Report</a>.”</p>



<p>The product of comprehensively analyzing the work of almost 2,000 dev teams, “The 2022 Engineering Benchmarks Report” is the first EVER look at what performance metrics make engineering orgs elite, average or underwhelming.</p>



<p>We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did and that you’re able to find out where your dev team ranks as well as concrete ways to improve.</p>



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<ul><li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(4:32) Building upon <a href="https://linearb.io/dora-space-metrics/?utm_term=dora%20metrics&amp;utm_campaign=dora%20metrics&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=1650697142&amp;hsa_cam=13724850210&amp;hsa_grp=125760589593&amp;hsa_ad=531005646605&amp;hsa_src=g&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-979900077989&amp;hsa_kw=dora%20metrics&amp;hsa_mt=b&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwhqaVBhCxARIsAHK1tiPeyT6uEtTJZcW3rsg54XiwXp1BsJ8DiLTUKYpRUwprcfaIS1yYHQUaAr3aEALw_wcB">DORA metrics</a></span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(15:59) Delivery life cycle category</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(21:55) Why <a href="https://linearb.io/cycle-time/">cycle time</a> should be your #1 metric</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(26:10) Development workflow category</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(29:05) Business alignment category</span></li><li aria-level="1">(38:44) <a href="https://linearb.io/blog/workerb-developer-automation/">WorkerB</a> use cases</li><li aria-level="1">(42:47) <a href="https://linearb.io/project-delivery-tracker/">Project Delivery Tracker</a></li></ul>



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To helps us launch the new DI Labs series, LinearB CEO & Co-founder Ori Keren joins us to discuss his teams' Engineering Benchmarks Report.

DI Labs: What Do Elite Dev Teams Look Like?

LB Labs: What Do Elite Dev Teams Look Like? w/ Ori Keren, Co-Founder &#038; CEO of LinearB


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<p>The last thing anyone who does great work should be doing is having to take time out from doing great work to promote it to their higher-ups. Unfortunately, until the person you report to achieves omnipotence, you’re going to have to make sure their perception of your work lines up with the quality.</p>



<p>In fact, when we asked our community what issue they would want professional coaching on, it was this: How to improve the impression of your work.</p>



<p>With the help of the great <a href="https://lenareinhard.com/">Lena Reinhard</a>, engineering &amp; executive coach, we’re giving a practical solution to this problem.</p>



<p>Designed as a real-time workshop where you should be thinking about the questions and answering them yourself, this was a game-changing conversation for us and hopefully a game-changing way for your work to get the respect it deserves.</p>



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<ul><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(6:51) How others perceive your work</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(15:59) Subtle ways perception is created</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(19:12) Perceptions within our control</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(26:48) Live workshop starts</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(37:18) Coaching lesson takeaways</span></li><li>(50:05) Why visibility matters in a distributed org<strong><i data-stringify-type="italic"></i></strong></li></ul>



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Lena Reinhard, engineering & executive coach, takes over the show to run one of her famous workshops while we play along!

Getting the Respect Your Work Deserves: A Live Workshop

Getting the Respect Your Work Deserves: A Live Workshop w/ Engineering Coach Lena Reinhard

<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/0ZnCZR6HtwZUUhpaPenhz4?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><p>When you think of a billion-dollar tech company, you probably imagine rooms full of monitors with dashboards and non-stop data streams.</p><p>Well, after talking to Hippo - a certified unicorn and newly minted giant in the insurance industry - we realized this couldn’t be further from the truth.</p><p>Mike Gordon, VP of Engineering at <a href="https://www.hippo.com/">Hippo</a>, sat down with <a href="https://devinterrupted.com/podcasts/">Dev Interrupted</a> to chat about what it’s actually like to run the dev teams powering a company that just passed a $1 billion valuation.</p><p>His insights about what actually matters to him were amazing for how simple, focused and – brilliant – they are.</p><p>A great conversation on what’s important to a company re-writing the rules of insurance, Mike Gordon is by far one of the most thoughtful-yet-pragmatic minds we’ve had on yet.</p><h3>Episode Highlights Include:</h3><ul><li>(1:56) From West Point to VP of Engineering</li><li>(5:22) Best thing about metrics is "Retiring dumb stuff"</li><li>(14:32) Reducing 'extreme face time'</li><li>(19:23) Burnup charts vs Burndown charts</li><li>(23:56) The two most important questions</li><li>(35:24) Mike's four 'Golden Metrics'</li></ul><h4>&nbsp;</h4>

Mike Gordon, VP of Eng at Hippo, tells us the 2 most important questions he wants answered: "What are we working on & when will it be done?"

The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B

The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B w/ Hippo’s VP of Engineering

<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/0WFBeGYtC8stOkfmXeNnuH?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><p>Almost every single company we talk to focuses on having their engineering teams solve problems.</p><p>This is why we jumped at the opportunity to talk to Joshua Romoff from Ubisoft La Forge.</p><p>Why? The goal of gaming companies isn’t so much to solve problems, but to enrich their customers’ lives.</p><p>That’s a unique, powerful change in how to think about building, developing and shipping features. Something that required Ubisoft to bring in Research Scientists like Joshua to figure out just what it is customers engage with in their games and how to give them more of it using AI.</p><p>Whether or not you're a gamer, this is a fascinating conversation on how every engineering team should think about building self-improving features.</p><h3>Episode Highlights Include:</h3><ul><li>(2:04) What is Ubisoft La Forge?</li><li>(7:33) Training bots = training a dog or cat</li><li>(9:30) NPCs of the future</li><li>(15:16) 90% of academic research is useless</li><li>(22:56) Prototypes Ubisoft is building</li><li>(28:18) The video game character Josh would pick for his team</li></ul>

Joshua Romoff, R&D scientist at Ubisoft La Forge, talks all things video game development and Ubisoft's quest to build the perfect bot.

The Quest to Build the Perfect Bot

The Quest to Build the Perfect Bot w/ Ubisoft's Joshua Romoff

<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/6GylfLluj7yaVwpBM65XmT?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><p>If you’re doing your job right, most of your time and your team’s time should be spent actually building things. That means conversations should be reserved to the very important ones.</p><p>In our latest <a href="https://devinterrupted.com/podcasts/">Dev Interrupted</a> episode, <a href="https://www.getreprise.com/">Reprise</a>’s Director of Engineering Jennie MacDougall looks back on the most useful conversation she has ever had with her devs that are also the ones she encourages them to have with others.</p><p>From the most important conversation when evaluating a prospective dev to the question that actually keeps engineers motivated and invested, this was an incredible download of things I started doing right after the recording was finished.</p><h3>Episode Highlights Include:</h3><ul><li>(6:27) Jennie's favorite interview question</li><li>(11:49) What to look for in a junior dev</li><li>(20:59) The "Donut Exercise"</li><li>(25:41) Things devs hate doing</li><li>(31:17) Do you want it fast or complete?</li><li>(37:52) Balancing product &amp; engineering</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p>

Jennie MacDougall, Director of Engineering at Reprise, explores the 3 most impactful conversations a developer can have.

The 3 Conversations That Improve Developers' Lives

The 3 Conversations That Improve Developers' Lives w/ Reprise's Jennie MacDougall

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