Charles Humble talks to Zulily CTO and SVP of Technology Courtney Kissler about experience in driving technological transformations at Nike, Nordstrom, Starbucks and Zulily.  They discuss Courtney’s journey within DevOps and how her experience leading transformations at large enterprises including Nordstrom, Starbucks and Nike led her to Zulily.  Topics include the importance of fixed capacity; creating a generative culture where team members feel they can be honest and supported; the 90 day framework; Value stream mapping and how this can help teams  increase the flow of value to customers; technical debt and more.

Charles Humble talks to Team Topologies co-author Manuel Pais. They discuss how the rapid adoption of Team Topologies may be being driven by companies seeking a new competitive advantage as DevOps and Cloud become ubiquitous; applying software engineering thinking to organisational design; the challenges of cross-team collaboration in a remote context; and using Team Topologies patterns for remote working.

Charles Humble talks to Susanne Kaiser, an independent tech consultant from Hamburg, Germany, supporting organisations with building socio-technical systems. They explore her thinking on combining Wardley Mapping with Domain Driven Design and perspectives from Team Topologies, and how this thoughts into broader ideas around socio-technical systems and optimising for fast flow. Transcript and show notes

In our first "Hacking the Org" podcast, Charles Humble talks to Randy Shoup, VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay. They discuss how eBay’s architecture has evolved, discovering problems in engineering using value stream mapping, measuring engineering team velocity, and making cultural change. Transcriot and show notes.