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Leading AI/ML Teams
with Craig Martell Head of LyftML @ Lyft
Craig Martell shares the biggest mistakes leaders of machine learning teams make, what to do if you have no experience leading an ML team, key skills your ML team needs, plus different models/approaches to building an ML team. You’ll hear the most expensive and time-consuming parts of machine learning, how to estimate timelines, unique tech debt, and how to manage expectations.
On this show, we uncover stories and examples of great leadership in software engineering, explore the experiences of industry leaders, as well as share actionable insights from leadership and management thought experts artful and skilled in the application of leadership.
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Sep 13, 2020
Give Up Control and Expand Your Impact
with Maria Latushkin CTO @ Omada Health
“Giving up control” is about empowering other people to scale yourself, and scale your effectiveness. Maria Latushkin shares with us why you need to give up control as an engineering leader and what holds people back. Plus you’ll learn tons of different ways to influence and manage your performance when it’s dependent on other people’s effectiveness.
FEATURED STORY
Sep 06, 2020
Growing Into a VPE - Patterns & Anti-Patterns
with Cathy Polinsky, Jerry Krikheli, Richard Wong, Erica Lockheimer & Claire Lew
A dynamic conversation between 4 current and past VPs of Engineering who cover all things about becoming a VPE! You'll hear how leadership is different in large vs. small companies, mental models to determine your greatest leverage, why you DON’T need to act like an owner, how to put trust into practice when you’re transitioning into a new role, and about the imperfect path to become a VPE.
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Episode 27: Leading AI/ML Teams
with Craig Martell Head of LyftML @ Lyft
Craig Martell shares the biggest mistakes leaders of machine learning teams make, what to do if you have no experience leading an ML team, key skills your ML team needs, plus different models/approaches to building an ML team. You’ll hear the most expensive and time-consuming parts of machine learning, how to estimate timelines, unique tech debt, and how to manage expectations.
Sep 20, 2020
Episode 26: Give Up Control and Expand Your Impact
with Maria Latushkin CTO @ Omada Health
“Giving up control” is about empowering other people to scale yourself, and scale your effectiveness. Maria Latushkin shares with us why you need to give up control as an engineering leader and what holds people back. Plus you’ll learn tons of different ways to influence and manage your performance when it’s dependent on other people’s effectiveness.
Sep 13, 2020
Episode 25: Growing Into a VPE - Patterns & Anti-Patterns
with Cathy Polinsky, Jerry Krikheli, Richard Wong, Erica Lockheimer & Claire Lew
A dynamic conversation between 4 current and past VPs of Engineering who cover all things about becoming a VPE! You'll hear how leadership is different in large vs. small companies, mental models to determine your greatest leverage, why you DON’T need to act like an owner, how to put trust into practice when you’re transitioning into a new role, and about the imperfect path to become a VPE.
Sep 06, 2020
Episode 24: *Bonus* Optimizing Productivity for Remote Engineering Teams
with Doug Gaff & Emma Tang
We were overwhelmed by questions from our event with Doug and Emma! This is a bonus follow up conversation to further dig into measuring productivity through “Waterlining” and Kaplan Meier estimating, hashtags in communication, remote 1:1 best practices, and Doug shows us some of the creative ways he applies Zapier integrations for his personal productivity!
Aug 30, 2020
Episode 23: Optimizing Productivity for Remote Engineering Teams
with Doug Gaff & Emma Tang
Doug Gaff and Emma Tang discuss high-bandwidth communication, innovation accounting, preventing developer burnout, influencing teams, and communicating priorities. They’ll help you move from frustration and survival in remote work, back to optimized productivity!
Aug 30, 2020
Episode 22: How to Become a Startup VPE
with Martin Casado & Sonal Chokshi
Martin Casado and Sonal Chokshi explore what makes a great VP of Engineering at startups! You’ll hear how successful VPEs are evaluated, the ideal experience, and success criteria. You’ll hear rapid-fire responses covering how to scale yourself, KPIs, the ideal VPE hiring time for startups, and what VPEs should definitely NOT do.
Aug 27, 2020
Episode 21: Conscious Career Growth (part 2)
with Wade Chambers
Your job as an engineering leader is to win, and increase your capacity to win. In Part 2, Wade Chambers discusses how to measure success for engineering leaders, what great looks like, AND how to increase your team’s performance and improve their potential! You’ll also hear how to identify where you're stuck and what to do to move your career forward.
Aug 16, 2020
Episode 20: Conscious Career Growth (part 1)
with Wade Chambers
Wade Chambers discusses how to learn anything by applying “conscious growth” and neuroplasticity to your career. You’ll learn how to get unstuck, and move your career forward. Plus Wade also shares stories about his early failures as an engineering manager, and what he wished he knew when he first became a manager.
Aug 09, 2020
Episode 19: Operationalizing Values and Principles
with Andrew Fong
Andrew Fong shares how to identify, operationalize, and reinforce values in your organization as well as his strategies to scale organizations through values-based decision making and in cultivating values-based environments. You’ll also hear stories about the massive role values had in the outcomes of several large scale infrastructure projects at Dropbox.
Aug 02, 2020
Episode 18: Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 2)
with Jean-Denis Greze
Organizational change is hard. In part 2, Jean-Denis Greze explores how you can adapt and transform the strengths, capabilities or “spikes” of your organization by intentionally using the strategies of “Isolation”, “Outlets” and “Shocks.” He shares a ton of great real-world examples and case studies to help you apply these strategies in your org.
Jul 26, 2020
