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Welcome to technically people, a community
conversation by and for workplace futurists brought to
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you by the tech recruitment platform built
in. The podcast features insights from leaders,
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thinkers and doers on the vanguard building
human centered workplaces of the future.
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Along the way, you'll hear concepts
that will stop you in your tracks,
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concepts that inspire you to ask yourself, what's the most futureforward way to approach
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my people leadership? We all know
the future of work isn't waiting around,
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so let's get on with the show. Hi Everyone, welcome to technically people.
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Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm really excited about the conversation
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we're going to be having today with
Catherine Murphy. Catherine is joining us today
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from plural site, which is a
tech Workforce Development Company that helps teams build
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better products and be more efficient.
So Catherine is the evp of plural sites
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engineering productivity insights product, which is
called flow. Catherine will share a bit
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about flow itself and she'll also offer
strategies that any tech leader can use to
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unearth hidden talent and create really high
performing engineering team. So welcome so much,
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Catherine. Thanks for joining US thank
you, tiffany. I'm really excited
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to be here. I am really
passionate about engineering and team so this is
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a fun time. I know we've
talked before and the passion is evidence and
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infectious. So how about we started
the beginning? Can you give us the
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high level overview of flow? Yeah, so flow uses data to assemble pictures
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of how teams and people are working, and that data is the actual coding
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data, it's the code commits,
it's the pull requests and it's the ticket
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data. So our aim is to
create these insights for the leaders, for
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the team members, to see really
how they're working together, how they're contributing
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to the codebase. That's that's ultimately
going out to production. Yeah, and
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I think with covid there's so much
less visibility for leaders into exactly that,
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into seeing how people are working together
and who has has influence. Anything to
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that? Is that true? I'm just making an assumption. Yeah,
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for sure. I mean I'm a
former engineering leader. I have this
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wandering career between engineering and product management, but I as an engineering leader,
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I used to really rely on things
like seeing a team all sitting together and
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a person wheeling their chair over to
somebody else's desk and they're just like cammering
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out something or in a conference room
on white boards, lots of pens flaying
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and with covid like that's everyone went
remote, that's all gone. Yeah,
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but the truth is like that was
already kind of going away as most of
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us became more and more distributed workforces. So even as I reflect on my
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own behaviors as a leader, I'm
like, AH, how right was that?
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When I make judgments on just what
I observed in these human behaviors was
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that it was kind of excluding the
people that were remote or maybe not in
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the office that day. But as
leaders we have to learn how to reassess
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collaboration. That's such a fundamental piece
of a good engineering team. Do you
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have a bunch of single authors that
don't work together, or do you have
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a team that really does work together? If Your judgment on collaboration was what
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you saw, you're missing a bunch. And one of the things we try
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to help team see is how are
people collaborating in the code? And the
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most common way that people collaborate in
the code isn't pull request for viewing each
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other's code and part of the insights
we try to give to people is what
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person interacts with what other people.
So you can kind of see the reach
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of influence across the team. But
then also how good is the Code Review?
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Did someone, the person who wrote
the code, actually respond to the
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comments that I made, to the
review that I did and we called out
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influence. Those are the traits that
ultimately make really strong teams when you see
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these engineers collaborate with each other in
a way that results in better code being
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committed back to the code base.
HMM. So I was really curious.
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Do you feel like engineer, see
this as kind of big brother scenario and
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how should leaders talk to their teams
about it? And what do you do,
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by the way, to educate?
Yeah, I mean it is my
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daily life what you just highlighted here, because it is really easy to see
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something like data insights as big brother. When we started on this journey as
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a team, we even some ways
underestimated how much we needed to teach data
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for good. We have like a
couple of hashtags that we talked about all
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the time. Hashtag data for good. Like we're not here actually to be
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big brother, we're here to help
teams be their best or one of the
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other shifts. I think in this
data for good is engineering. Team members
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have a sense of who is good
and who is not good. It's all
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judgment versus data. You mentioned hidden
talent. I think this is one of
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the aspects. is a team using
data, qualitative data, to see how
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they are helping each other, who
really is getting better, who is contributing
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to others. Data is a really
powerful way to get us from that judge
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maker, creative self into qualitatively assessing
how we're before performing as a team and
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when at those our continuity. I
wanted to pick up on a thread,
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which is that looking at this kind
of data can make a difference for team
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members from underrepresented groups, and I
know you have an interesting customer story around
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that. Yeah, the customer is
Manualife, a fluorosite customer, and they
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use all of our products, but
with flow in particular. They actually I
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don't know if they intended this initially
or if it just happened, but as
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they started to look at performance of
the teams, they found a woman on
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the team that had been at this
associate level for multiple years and she was
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not allowed person and she was not
a self promoter and she was not the
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one volunteering to do the demos and
the presentations, and yet the flow data
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showed that she was an incredible contributor
to the team, very effective, proficient
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at her craft, and they used
flow to find that and fix the fact
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that she had not been promoted.
The other thing that I find remarkable is
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that they have been very public about
this. Well, VP of engineering.
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He talks openly about this story,
encouraging other leaders to go and do the
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same thing, a sort of this
acknowledgement that we've all made mistakes in a
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recognizing the self promoters and ignoring those
that are not loud, and he's asking
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the rest of the world to come
with him in this journey and using data
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to find people who might be overlooked. Yeah, so let's talk about this
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idea of the influencers not necessarily being
the loudest person in the room. I
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think you have some elaboration on that. Yeah, I'm going to take another
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example. This was like a little
bit of a like nearder to my heart.
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So you think about neually diverse people
and there's social interactions are not maybe
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like everyone else, and yet for
finding that neually diverse people are very talented
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in the craft of software engineering.
When I use data, I can see
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that people who maybe don't have a
voice or whose voice is awkward are highly
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proficient in coding itself. Like I
can actually see how they collaborate with others,
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like when they review other people's code, are they contributing really good comments
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that cause the other members of the
team to make code changes? I can
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also see how much time do they
spend on new work, on their own
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work, versus interacting with others?
And that interacting with others? I'll probably
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never see it in the form of
a conversation, but I can see it
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in code and I can see how
that matters in the quality of code that
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our team is producing. Yeah,
and actually, maybe something I should have
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mentioned earlier is this type of data. The code commits, the pull request,
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the ticket data is available for absolutely
every engineering leader. So it's not
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just about having flow, but it's
about being deliberate about how you're measuring performance
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and influence. Yes, totally in
fact. Thanks for bringing that up.
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I mean this is data that we're
getting right out of the code repository that
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ninety percent of companies are using,
and so it's there. But often leaders
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don't take the time to go
and
look at it or it's awkward to get
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that data. But this data is
available when people can be doing this starting
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today, even if they don't have
flow. So there's something else that keeps
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leaders up at night, which is
on boarding, and I know you've looked
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at that quite a bit. So
help leaders out in terms of what matters
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with regard to on boarding and what
they can do. First of all,
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maybe a little background. Linkedin did
some studies on just the turnover in software
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engineering and basically this stat has made
remain the same for the last several years.
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But twenty percent, roughly, of
the workforce is turning over all the
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time. So, as we have
a team of ten, that that means
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two of your people are new at
any given time. So hiring is one
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challenge, but even once you do
that, then getting that person to be
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a productive member of the team is
that onboarding challenge that you're raising here,
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and that's with that twenty percent turn
and then some companies of shirts hire.
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You're basically doing this all the time. But this is another really fun area
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for me where it's like the data
showed me that what I was doing the
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past was wrong. The natural instinct
of a leader, specially an engineering leader,
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is when you hire New People,
is to give that new person lots
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of low risk work. They're like, well, we can't have this person,
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brand new, doesn't know anything,
putting code and production. That would
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be scary. So your instinct is
to have these new team members do a
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lot of ride along, as they're
like watching other people work. Maybe you'd
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give them some bug fixes and,
as we partners of our customers, to
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do some studies. The data showed
that in some ways you should just be
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doing the opposite. You when you
bring this new person onto your team,
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you should get this person reviewing lots
of other people's code and having a lot
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of other people review their code.
That other insight is to give them new
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work and again rely on that code
collaboration as the helping hands around this person
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and get that new
work in production
as fast as possible. We call them
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atchark time to one hundred, which
really speaks to how quickly can we get
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a person produce using hundred lines of
highly efficient and production code and then more?
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That you mean into that in some
ways was like leaning into your discomfort.
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The faster they will on board and
be a productive member of the team.
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And in the studies we've done we
see the difference being in the range
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of four months for on boarding to
eleven months. And specifically you're talking about
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the difference between high and low performing
teams. So yellow performing is three to
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four months on board versus eleven months
to on board. Yeah, so,
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yeah, those high performing teams are
doing it faster, they're doing in four
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months. And there's like another benefit
to all this, which is happier teams.
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When you join a team like,
I don't know if you've ever been
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a new member of a company or
a new member of a team, like
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all you want to do is prove
yourself, all you want to do is
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be that contributor, and the faster
that we can enable you to do that,
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the more you're going to be a
really happy member of the team,
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and that sort of lifts all boats
in any ways. But you know,
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you've heard there's like this adage of
people join companies and then leave the leaders,
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writer. E. Leaf bosses.
So if that's problem number one,
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you see, well, how can
you be a good leader and create an
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environment where people want to be part
of the team? Like it's first valuing
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each member for their actual contributions.
How many times I've heard team member or
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say, well, my manager doesn't
know what I'm actually contributing. So first
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of all, let's have data for
all, like everybody, seeing what I'm
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actually contributing and getting promoted for what
I am doing, being given opportunities based
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on my skill and my craft and
how I help the team. All of
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these are things that leaders should use
when they're looking at the health of the
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team. I think on the other
side, two engineers are creative makers,
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so being able to be more confident
in seeing my actual proficiency, that leads
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to my happiness. I've also lost
engineers over the years because they said,
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well, I just wanted to do
something new. I was tired of coding
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in Java and I wanted to move
to Javascript, or want to become a
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front and developer, or like,
we weren't on the cloud yet and I
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really wanted to be doing cloud devops
oriented engineering. Well, first of all,
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my creating those opportunities in my own
environment, but then, as I
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do it, am I creating a
success path for that person so that they
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are taking those opportunities, that are
learning the skill and they can see the
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data just like I can on how
they're doing, and they're getting better and
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better. Yeah, and we know
there's slewth low of research. That underscores
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the fact that engineers in particular,
I think, more than any other discipline,
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really need to learn and continue to
grow, partly because of the thirst
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for knowledge that they generally tend to
have broad brushstrokes, but also because,
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you know, when I talk to
engineers, there's a bit more anxiety than
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you might imagine, because they're thinking, are my skills still relevant? Am
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I at the leading edge? Yeah, I mean that's actually such a stressful
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part at their fears are not unfounded, because companies do like a company will
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make a strategic decision. Okay,
we're going to now do digital transformation.
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Are In person experience that we used
to have with our customers. It's now
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going to be all digital, it's
gonna be online, and so they do
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feel that pressure to always be on
the leading edge of skill, but there's
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often not this companion piece of data
that shows them give them comfort, like
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I'm there, look at me,
I'm doing this. Fact, one of
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the stories I want to share with
you is like a woman on our team's
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at floral site she left engineering for
ten years to be a stayathome mom and
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then when she came back, first
of all, ten years is a lifetime
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and software engineering, so she's of
course learning new skills. But she had
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told herself, I'm not good at
this, I've been out for ten years,
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I'm just like so grateful to even
have got this job. And her
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leader was using data really effectively and
she saw herself credit pretty quickly that actually,
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she's really good. The ten years
off didn't really hurt her. She's
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extremely talented, extremely technical and was
quickly catching up to her peers. One
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of the reasons I love the stories. It ties a lot of threads together.
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That so maybe quieter voice, that
underrepresented voice, that people that took
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a bunch time off meeting to reskill. But data kind of set her free
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from that dialog in her head that
would say all, you've been away ten
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years, you're just the junior member
of the team, you can't do this.
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We all kind of have those voices
sometimes and like I love seeing how
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the truth set her free in this
games hmm. Yeah, and honestly,
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women and really anyone who could be
seen as other on an engineering team are
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prone to telling these stories about themselves
and generally, I think leaders should be
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aware of that, because people who
are underrepresented on engineering teams may need a
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leader to pay more attention to the
kinds of performance data you're talking about to
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ensure that there is more equity.
So yeah, data was that you free
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should be your next Hashtag. Yeah
Right, okay, so obviously data is
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the focus here big time. If
we played a a drinking game where every
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time we mentioned your right, think
we'd both be pretty tipsy. But I
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think it's not just in the code
either, because you've talked about some things
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that team leads can do to,
without looking at the code, expand the
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skills that they reward. So certainly
I think reward people that are willing to
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learn new skills. Some ways today
wid an engineering teams and general feels like,
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Oh, if I want to learn
a new skill, I have to
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go to them my own time.
So we need to recognize as engineering leaders
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every reason have to learn new skills
at some point. So rembrace that reward
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that. Recognize it the other instead
of just who's doing a maximum number of
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tickets every week or who's the hero
that responds to production incidents in the middle
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of the night to look for some
of those other softer either collaboration skills or
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the person who quietly goes behind and
does clean up and rights documentation. Look
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for the things that lift the team. That's and I feel like that applies
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to whether it's engineering teams, all
teams, but it certainly an engineering go
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beyond looking at hero behaviors and look
for the quieter, behind the scenes things.
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I love that. So that's going
to be things like, are they
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mentoring others? Do they help on
board the new person? Yeah, are
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they working cross functionally? Then I
think, as you mentioned, it's about
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bringing new skills to the team.
So how about we move into a segment
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that technically people calls the two minute
take away. So if you had to
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choose a few key pieces of advice
that you can give leaders, what would
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that be? Yeah, well,
first I think it's to create a culture
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of trust really intentionally and do this
by expanding the definition of contributors. It's
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too easy to look at the person
who stayed up all night working on my
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production isn't or the person who's really
loud about all the new things they're doing,
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and we often ignore the more silent
but meaningful contributors, people are helping
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others, people are who are learning
new skills, people who are working cross
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functionally. So expand that definition of
contributors and that will have that effective trust
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and the span that the definition of
influencers, people who are realizaking a difference.
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Yeah, yes, yeah, so
that's number one. Number two is
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hiring on boarding. Stop Thinking about
it as a chore and like this New
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Person, got to get them up
to speed, lean into our discomfort by
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giving them new work, helping them
become meaningful contributors faster, faster. Yeah,
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and obviously that is so related to
your first point, which was about
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trust it. So, yeah,
exactly. And there's maybe a to a,
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which is when you have new team
member, there's a data person to
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A. I love it right doing
like when there's a new person on your
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team. They might not be new
to the company, but part of being
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happy as an engineer as being able
to do new things. So when a
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new person joins the team from another
team, on board them in the same
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way. Give them new work,
let them do meaningful contributions to the team
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into production as fast as possible.
And up to the final point. I
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think is really just seeking hidden talent, look for underrepresented team members, look
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where they often might feel like an
other. They might not be lowed,
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they're not self promoters. So go
and look for them and give them the
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opportunities, the recognition promote them.
That matters so much as companies take on
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these big DII initiatives. Amazing,
valuable takeaways that leaders can implement two days.
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So thank you so much, Catherine. Our listeners are going to want
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to talk with you to learn more
about expanding their definition of what good performances.
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What's a good way to reach you? Yeah, please reach out to
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me on Linkedin. That's probably the
best way and the easiest way, and
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please reference this so that I know
that it's related to this built in podcast.
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But I really look forward to collaborating
with people. As you can tell,
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I really am passionate about this and
I love learning from others and hearing
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new ideas and what people are experiencing. Yeah, I love it and it's
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been fun to collaborate on this conversation. So thanks for that. For listeners,
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