Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Jarrod Overson of Shape Security about the reason for and the content in the Beyond Being an Individual Contributor track at QCon San Francisco, and he offers advice for current and aspirant technical leaders. Why listen to this podcast: • Many technologists get the opportunity to move into leadership roles but receive no training or guidance about what skills such a role needs • Solving other people’s problems as quickly as possible is an important aspect of a leadership role – this is very different to being an individual contributor where the focus is on solving your own problems • Advice for aspirant leaders: assume you are in the role you want and practice doing everything you think should be done in that role • There is a bias among software developers against what is perceived as “old” knowledge – practices that have been around for decades and centuries – this is very wrong • The problems of software engineering have not ye