10x Teams with Dan Abel
Quality Bits
04/03/23
•45m
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We've all worked with "heroes," great professionals who frequently "save the day" in the company. What if we'd instead prevent the day from needing the saving altogether?
Dan Abel believes in 10x teams rather than 10x engineers. Listen to this episode to learn more about it and what aspects to concentrate on when setting up the teams for success.
Find Dan on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-abel/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/twicezer0
- Dan's 10x Teams website: https://ten-x.team
- Dan's blog: https://engineeringandcareering.co.uk/
Mentions and resources:
- Dan's 10x Teams initial article: https://ten-x.team/2023/02/22/build-10x-teams-for-delivery-effectiveness/
- Article on unblocking meetings: https://www.spydergrrl.com/2019/08/the-unstuck-meeting-safe-failure-space.html
- "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words" by Randall Munroe
- "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
- "The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness" by Steve Peters
- Team topologies: https://teamtopologies.com/
- Dunbar's theories:
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- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/
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Contract Testing with Lewis Prescott
March 20, 2023
•34m
It's no surprise that this episode's guest Lewis Prescott has a website called "pactman". Pact is a popular contract testing tool, and Lewis is indeed a man who can tell quite a bit about Pact and contract testing. In this conversation, you'll learn more about contract testing, its benefits, misconceptions, and where to start.
Find Lewis on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-prescott-12409a44/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/WuigPrescott
- Lewis' website: https://www.pactman.co.uk/
Mentions and resources:
- Spotify Testing Honeycomb model: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2018/01/testing-of-microservices/
- Pactflow's Bi-Directional Contract Testing: https://pactflow.io/bi-directional-contract-testing/
- Lewis' How To Start API Contract Testing Podcast: https://www.pactman.co.uk/contract-testing-podcast
- Youtube video that was Lewis' first intro to contract testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0UGY2-YYI
Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/
- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/
Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content.
If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyteThank you for listening!
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With over a decade in data-related roles, working with Data Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and MLOps Engineering, Aurimas Griciūnas is a great role model for many people wanting to learn more about data. The author of the SwirlAI newsletter with over 7000 subscribers, Aurimas' posts with visuals explaining data have reached many more people on LinkedIn.
In this episode, Aurimas shares valuable insights about what working with data means. Is it just a trend to be data-driven, or, a reality? Are all the data products big data products? Who and how should help define good business success metrics? Tune in to learn the answers to these questions and much more.
Find Aurimas on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurimas-griciunas/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aurimas_Gr
- SwirlAI newsletter: https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com
Mentions and resources:
- Chat GPT: https://chat.openai.com/
- Tools to help with data quality:
- Great Expectations: https://greatexpectations.io
- dbt-expectations: https://github.com/calogica/dbt-expectations
- On techniques for testing Machine Learning Models:
- A/B testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing
- Multi-arm bandits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/
- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/
Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content.
If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyteThank you for listening!
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