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Welcome to the Pragmatic Lead Podcast. Your hosts are Alex Bachuk and John Masse. We have conversations with folks throughout the tech industry to get a real-world perspective on how people make things happen for their careers and businesses. Check out pragmaticlead.com for articles and more episodes just like this.
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![#3 - Managing and building culture remotely with Edgar Muentes](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/9724354/podcast-cover_300x300.png)
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
#3 - Managing and building culture remotely with Edgar Muentes
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Some indicators Edgar uses to think about culture:
Some other ideas we discussed were
Resources we mentioned in our conversation:
![#2 - Transformational Leadership with Frank Lacalamita](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/9724354/podcast-cover_300x300.png)
Monday Oct 26, 2020
#2 - Transformational Leadership with Frank Lacalamita
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
In this episode of Pragmatic Lead, we're talking to Frank Lacalamita about digital transformations. Change management is hard, especially when stakes are high. Innovation requires changes. There is a lot that goes into planning and organizing big migrations, like hiring and training people, getting buy-in from the leadership, managing stakeholders' expectations, and more. We talk about our experiences as well as challenges.
You can find the full transcript on PragmaticLead.com
About the guest
Frank Lacalamita is a software architect and a technical leader in Toronto CA. He has been working on technical transformations in multiple industries over the past decade.
Notes
There are multiple management frameworks we can use to manage transformations in companies. We mentioned the ITIL Framework, PMO, and Agile.
Any change starts with assessing the current state and target state. And then when going through an evaluation, you end up with the roadmap on how to get from point A to point B (target state).
Change is necessary to drive innovation. Successful businesses embrace change. In our industry, there is always something new, a better, more efficient way to do solve problems. You have to adapt.
Especially with the explosion in open source projects. You can do so much more than proprietary software in early 2000-2010.
But it's not always easy to convince the leadership that there is value in doing the transformation. Even though there are obvious wins, if you can improve time to market, developers' productivity, automate certain tasks and save money on hardware. Some companies that missed the opportunity paid the price by falling behind in the industry. Some of the most common transformation these days is probably cloud migrations. And there is some push back, questioning the value of this massive undertaking.
There are a lot of changes happening during the transformation, it's not only affecting business and technology, but also people and their jobs. Sysadmins become SREs, network engineers transition to cloud architects, and so on.
Any transformational program has three pillars:
- People
- Process
- Technology
Think where the business wants to go, how to adapt the process and technology to accomplish that. Evaluate individuals, their skills, and responsibilities. Process and people are more difficult than technology. You have to invest in their careers, education, training.
![#1 - Product owners effect on tech culture with Mike Gertrudes](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9724354/podcast-cover_1_bs74s_300x300.png)
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
#1 - Product owners effect on tech culture with Mike Gertrudes
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Welcome to the PragmaticLead podcast and our very first episode.
Our guest is Mike Gertrudes, VP, Head of Engineering at Billie | The Body Brand.
We speak with Mike regularly, and recently Mike shared with us that a change in his office dynamics had a significant effect on his engagement at work and quality of life. When we asked him what changed, Mike told us it was about a new product owner that recently joined the company.
We had to book Mike for this chat; we believe that a strong team requires everyone to participate. From this episode, we hope to inspire you to see how powerful a united team can be for the sake of creating excellent products and enjoying professional relationships.
Guest Mini-Profile
Mike Gertrudes
Current role: VP, Head of Engineering at Billie
Previous roles include Director of Engineering for brands like Priceline.com, tech leader, and entrepreneur.
Additional notes
Around the 7:30 mark during our conversation, we couldn't remember Conway's Law.
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."
— Melvin E. Conway
Contact Mike Gertrudes for
- Coaching and advice for professional development.
- Join Mikes's team at Billie.
How to contact Mike Gertrudes
Email: mikegertrudes@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegertrudes/
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