Engineering Culture By Infoq

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Travis Kimmel of Gitprime about the challenges of being an engineering manager, the value of metrics and how to use them wisely Why listen to this podcast: • There is lots of information about the “stuff” of engineering, but very little on the human processes of engineering • Without a data layer that gives insight into the process the manager needs to interrupt the flow of work to understand what’s happening • The difficulty in running an engineering team is ensuring that the impulse to build is aligned with the overall business goals • The state of nature for engineering is a group of people building interesting things that make sense from a business value perspective – if any of these point stops being true then dysfunction creeps in • The data generated by a team should be consumed by the manager of that team and they use it to te