In this episode Arlo Belshee, Aaron Coville and Marc Denman discuss how small changes in our coding behaviors can lead to incredible results. Arlo believes we can achieve a bug-free world, Aaron agrees with him on some points of that... Listen to hear the debate and more:

• Imagining a bug free world
• Why we waste so much time making and dealing with bugs
  • The average developer creates 3 bugs a day (even Senior Devs)
• What is “The insight loop” (16:36)
  • Teaches you how to see code differently and
  • How to refactor legacy code safely
• Your engineering culture will create habits, some good some bad.
• Naming as a process (27:11): using nonsensical names for methods, like Applesauce, forces a habit of refactoring and naming with intentionality, but does it come at a cost?

In this episode, Sameera Moinpour, Sr. Director of Strategy Solutions at Workboard, explains how OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) can help drive better results for your team. OKRs are a key component of Amway's Agile Workflow Model, ensuring teams are clear on what outcomes they want and how they will measure progress against them. Listen to learn:

• What are OKRs?
• How to keep teams aligned to common goals
• Where to integrate OKRs into your current operations cycles
• Showing up to review cycles "already informed" instead of "to be informed"
• How to get started with OKRs on your team
  • 2 pronged approach to starting
• 2 OKR Levers: Alignment and Transparency

Rituparna Ghosh, General Manager and head of DevSecOps at Wipro shares her view on Agile Leadership. Ritu will be the first to tell you, she is still on the journey of becoming an Agile and Servant Leader.

In this episode we discuss:

• How leadership styles have changed over the past 15 years - what used to be "nice to have" leader skills are now a "must-have."
• What it feels like to transition from "command and control" to "servant leadership."
• The importance of psychological safety in creating the space for team members to dissent.
• Respecting the hierarchy of competence OVER the hierarchy of authority - being the most senior person in the room does not make you the most competent. Today's leaders need to recognize the value of competence and ensure it is given equal, if not greater, importance to seniority.
• The importance of spending time developing new skills (too often it is deprioritized to "get something else done."
• i-shaped, T-shaped and Comb shaped skillsets.
• Attributing success to the team, but failure to yourself.
• Conducting blameless post-mortems or retros
• Be a just and fair leader: balancing compassion, discipline and accountability. Set high expectations with your team and hold them accountable to it.
• Shifting between being the leader and being a member of the team.