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Scaling Tech - The Blueprint for Successful Tech Teams

Are you a CTO, Chief Product Officer or Tech leader? Then this one"s for you: If there was one tool that would help you learn best practices and avoid top mistakes so that you can achieve your goals, would you consider that tool? If you answered "yes," this is the tool you"ve been looking for. Debbie Madden is a serial tech entrepreneur. She is well known for helping teams scale in ways that result in measurable outcomes paired with a strong culture. She is the founder & chair of Stride, a

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24:57

Building a Tech Stack For Your Startup with Heman...

Scaling Tech - The Blueprint for Successful Tech Teams ·

2024/01/16

How do you build your tech stack so that your underlying systems are strong enough when you scale? Today's guest has 20 years of experience building scalable and robust technology stacks for companies across the board – he’s ideally suited to answer that question.Heman Duraiswamy is theCo-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Circa, building stronger communities through payment innovation. In a nutshell, his company is revolutionizing the rent collection process in the multi-family real estate

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26:24

What It's Like To Be A Female Founder with Jean Smart

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2024/01/02

What is it like being a female founder in a post-COVID business landscape, trying to raise venture capital while also trying to raise your kids?Jean Smart is the founder and CEO of Penelope, a venture-backed 401(k) platform that's focused on serving the five million American micro and small businesses.Those of us who have worked for a small company will know what a struggle setting up a 401(k) can be. And so, at the height of COVID, Jean gave up her salaried career as a Wall Street exec working in

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29:39

The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security...

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2023/12/19

What is DevSecOps, and how can we embrace it as we continue improving our systems development cycle?To answer this important question is Sean D. Mack, a transformational technology leader who has literally written the book, ‘The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed’.Appreciating the crucial role that security (at speed!) plays in your DevOps process begins with understanding company culture. It’s not so much about understanding the tools (“moving to the cloud”) as it is about the

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33:50

Building a High-Performing Product and Technology...

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2023/12/05

What does it take to build a high-performing technology organization? For Nick Maiello, it's a combination of data-driven decision-making, having cross-functional teams, and getting your culture right.And Nick should know. He has a range of experience, from starting technology companies to scaling out multiple digital transformations in a number of different industries, including consumer travel and e-commerce.Currently the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Chargely, Nick goes so far as to

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29:54

IBM's Retrospective Radar with Anthony Coppedge

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2023/11/21

How do we come together and share and learn? And combine that with planning for what we want to do next. Or, to put it another way, how do we take feedback and then actually act on it?Anthony Coppedge is the principal global Digital Sales Agile Lead at IBM, where he guides the training, facilitation, and coaching of sellers, marketers, product owners, and executive leaders globally across all of IBM in how to apply Business Agility.His latest Agile invention is the 'Retrospective Radar', a

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26:45

The Chicken Story with Brian Guthrie

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2023/11/07

Does process change need to be super complicated? Does change work best when it comes from within a team rather than an external influence? And how can we improve conversations around process change from being less inference-based to more data-driven?All these questions are raised as we hear 'the chicken story' from Brian Guthrie in today's episode of Scaling Tech, which explores how a synchronistic process can lead to more staff synchronicity, and even engineer empathy!Brian Guthrie is the CTO and

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23:12

Transparency in Technology with Josh Tatum

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2023/10/24

What does transparency in technology look like? What should be hidden, what should not, and what are the expectations?Today's guest is Josh Tatum, the Co-Founder of Carputty (auto financing, reinvented). Josh has been a driving force in the consumer finance and technology industry for the better part of two decades and brings a wealth of educated opinion and insight to the topic of transparency.Did you know that supermarkets are using the Bluetooth on your phones to track your in-store movements and

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31:12

How To Beat Burnout with Aldric Giacomoni

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2023/10/10

How do you tell if you have burnout? Are there key milestones that you should look out for on the way down? And are there healthy indicators to celebrate your recovery?Aldric Giacomoni has been a member of the New York Tech scene for over 15 years and is an old friend and colleague of host Debbie Madden. He also suffered recently from burnout, and in today's episode of Scaling Tech, he's candidly sharing what got him through it in a highly relatable episode.From early warning signs and misdiagnoses,

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34:59

Balancing Tech Proficiency and Stakeholder Goals with...

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2023/09/26

How do you balance technical proficiency with stakeholder goals? Who talks to whom, and who owns the process as you build out your product management teams while showing your stakeholders their much-needed ROI?These are some of the challenges Rob Wisniewski has faced over the years as a CTO who has specialized in helping companies scale while automating their big idea.Rob Wisniewski is a Managing Director in Blackstone's Technology and Innovations Group and has worked in a variety of tech leadership

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28:27

Going from CTO to Business Operations with Nick...

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2023/09/12

What are the skills you take when you go from being CTO to head of business operations – and what are the new skills you acquire? And how can a company benefit from having a former CTO looking at its systems and processes?Nick Rockwell is currently the EVP for Strategy and Operations at Fastly, having transitioned from within the company as CTO. Before that, Nick was CTO at The New York Times, and he's been a CTO for the better part of 22 years!All of this makes him expertly qualified to chat with

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27:38

Making Performance Management a Top Priority with Cat...

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2023/08/29

Performance Management! Why is it more important now than ever? And how can you make it a top priority in your organization? In increasingly volatile times, is it worth replacing that person on the team who's giving you 20% less than the next candidate could? And when is a good time to do performance reviews?Cat Miller is the CTO of Flatiron Health, leading an organization of over 400 technologists who are working together to reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care. Cat is a software and data

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30:33

The Path to Becoming a CTO With JP Grace

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2023/08/15

What is it like to take seven months and interview literally hundreds of founders and co-founders of businesses before taking your next job as a CTO?This is the fascinating story of JP Grace, a seasoned engineering leader who's paved his way in the tech industry with his ability to drive business growth and positive change.JP Grace is the current CTO of Endear, where he's assisting omnichannel retail brands in driving sales with an easy-to-implement clienteling platform.How he got to where he is

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26:37

Onshore vs Offshore Hiring in a Hybrid World with Joe...

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2023/08/01

Which is better: onshore versus offshore hiring? This is an important consideration in today's hybrid world. To answer this question, Scaling Tech's Debbie Madden has brought in Joe Burgess: someone who's tried both approaches in recent months.Joe Burgess started his career as a software developer and teacher at Flatiron School, after which he transitioned into leading teams of data scientists, engineers, designers, and education professionals to build the education product at Flatiron – and then

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34:40

Scaling Innovation at Etsy with Matt Holford

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2023/07/18

How do we think about innovation? And then, how do we scale it? Matt Holford is a Senior Director of Engineering at Etsy and a technology leader who's had quite a storied career working as a musician and in various creative digital service agencies.As such, he has a unique perspective on how to frame scaling innovation.How do we give staff the space for idea generation? And then, how do we validate and implement new ideas at a company level? For Matt, opening the door for product innovation means

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26:16

Build vs Buy - How to Be a Good Partner to Your...

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2023/07/04

How can we be a good partner when we buy from a vendor? How do we, as the customer, get good at providing feedback? As we partner with the right SaaS companies, how do we get the most out of those partnerships right out of the gate?On today's episode of Scaling Tech, I am by Ian Lotinsky, a product and team builder who is the CTO at Great Minds, an online ed-tech business. Ian is answering Debbie's questions with his own, such as 'How do we understand the people on the other end of the Zoom call?'

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29:39

Stage Appropriate Processes with Don Neufeld

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2023/06/20

Who do we look to as we try to implement stage-appropriate processes within our tech company? Is it the Googles and LinkedIns for their HR and staff incentive policies, or is there a better way to 'right size' our process challenges?Don Neufeld is the VPE Coach (Vice President Engineering), who offers leadership and performance coaching for VPEs, CTOs, and other engineering leaders.What makes Don so effective is that he's been there as a startup engineering leader himself, from founder to IPO stage

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27:24

LLM Transformation Is the New Digital Transformation...

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2023/06/13

LLM fluency: what is it, why do tech teams need it, and why should we care about it? LLM transformation is the new digital transformation, and Dan Mason, a principal at Stride Consulting, is today's guest to help us understand all we need to know about Large Language Model transformation.Dan is a prolific product and engineering team leader who's led teams and products at ESPN, People Magazine, Viacom, and more!Dan has put together a course on LLM fluency and so is uniquely positioned to offer tech

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27:09

Detecting Truth with Adobe's Content Authenticity...

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2023/06/06

How do we build systems that improve the way we interact with media and with each other? Truth versus Lies when it comes to content authenticity is today's timely topic and I have brought in Andy Parsons, the Senior Director of the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe, to consult!There is a scientific curiosity for tech leaders around how we discern 'truth' from 'lies' in the media. Especially with the advent of AI, how do we prove what content is false?As Andy clarifies, it's actually more

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35:55

Agile Fluency with Diana Larsen

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2023/05/23

How do tech leaders learn to lead without blame? Today's guest is Diana Larsen, a truly dynamic and inspirational woman who works with global organizations designing high-performance work systems, and innovating team effectiveness – a theme that is top of mind for most businesses these days.We are chatting about the Agile Fluency model, how Diana supports business leaders in their transition to Agile methods, and her latest book ‘Lead Without Blame – Building Resilient Learning Teams.’All of Diana's

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38:04

Value Stream Mapping to Improve Product Development...

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2023/05/16

How do we visualize systems to improve product development? And where are the bounds of that system? Today I'm chatting with Rob O'Brien about process mapping, value stream mapping, and more.Rob is Principal Product Manager at Stride Consulting and has over ten years of product management experience that he brings to this conversation. Rob frames the debate for us by defining the 'socio-technical system' involving people, technology, and processes that all contribute to the overview of how we should

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