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Grow this, Grow that

Grow this, Grow that

By Vectorly

IT Leaders openly discuss how to manage, scale, and grow design & engineering teams.
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Engineering Leadership with André Luís, David Stanley, Andrey Rebrov (YC Special Episode)

Grow this, Grow thatNov 25, 2021

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Engineering Retention with Dmitry Gritskevich, Kanchan Bankar, Didier Caroff, Paul Hutson

Engineering Retention with Dmitry Gritskevich, Kanchan Bankar, Didier Caroff, Paul Hutson

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Engineering Managers

Our today's guests are Dmitry Gritskevich (Oodrive), Kanchan Bankar (Verifi Inc.), Didier Caroff (Akeneo), Paul Hutson (Edify.ac). We would like to thank each one of them for speaking up for the importance of retaining employees & sharing their experience with the community.

In this episode we discussed the following questions - Why is it important to retain software developers? Do companies need to retain them at all? What is the manager's role in this process? And many different insightful questions.

This is the last episode of this season. Hope you enjoy our podcast and love the stories of our guests.

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Dec 15, 202138:34
Engineering Motivation with Yogesh Upadhyay, Rachel Cheng, Damian Winkowski, Tristan Jung, Ritesh Kumar
Dec 07, 202152:20
Engineering Leadership with André Luís, David Stanley, Andrey Rebrov (YC Special Episode)

Engineering Leadership with André Luís, David Stanley, Andrey Rebrov (YC Special Episode)

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Engineering Managers. 

Our 3rd episode is definitely special. This time we invited engineering leaders from Y Combinator Top Companies - André Luís (GitLab), David Stanley (Webflow), Andrey Rebrov (Scentbird). Each one of our guest is the true specialist with extensive experience in software development and engineering management.  

In this episode, we discussed Leadership in Engineering Teams. We talked about how to become a great leader for your team, what skills are required to become one and how to lead your team to a higher performance level. Our guests kindly shared their own experience in building the culture of trust and becoming the leader in their teams.  

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Nov 25, 202138:44
Engineering Growth with Rambod Kermanizadeh, Peter Asher & Nick Flynn
Nov 16, 202139:52
Engineering Productivity with Dhara Doshi & Yao Xiao

Engineering Productivity with Dhara Doshi & Yao Xiao

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Engineering Managers

Our guests for the new episode are Dhara Doshi (Engineering Manager at Blavity Inc) and Yao Xiao (Director of Algorithm Engineering at AiBee US). Both of them are experienced software engineers & managers with a demonstrated history of working.

In this episode, we discussed the productivity in Engineering Teams, pointed out practical measurements for engineering productivity, and how manager can impact developers' productivity. Moreover, our guests kindly shared their own working experience and revealed few cases of measuring the productivity.

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Nov 09, 202145:50
Design Metrics with Jehad Affoneh

Design Metrics with Jehad Affoneh

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Design Leaders.

Our guest for the new episode is Jehad Affoneh - Chief Design Officer at Splunk, the world's first Data-to-Everything Platform. Jehad is an experienced design and product leader. Before Splunk he used to lead and grow a team of over 250 talented designers, researchers and engineers in 4 countries. 

In this episode of our podcast, we have discussed the process of design team assessment, its importance and how design metrics can be aligned with business goals of the company. Jehad has kindly shared his own experience in working with designers and assessing them, also in overcoming certain barriers during the process. 

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Apr 30, 202136:16
Design Mentorship with Rania Svoronou

Design Mentorship with Rania Svoronou

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Design Leaders.  

Our guest for today's episode is Rania Svoronou - Design Director at IBM NYC. Rania is a keynote speaker, an industry mentor, and has been a guest lecturer at Royal College of Art (London). She gets invited as a Mentor & Judge on multiple Design Events & Hackathons across the world. 

In this episode, we discussed the importance of mentorship in a design team, possible outcomes for designers, maintenance of relationship between mentors and mentees, and how diversity and inclusion brings new opportunities for design mentorship. Raina has kindly shared her own experience in leading and mentoring designers with different backgrounds.   

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Apr 20, 202137:28
Organizing DesignOps with Patrizia Bertini

Organizing DesignOps with Patrizia Bertini

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Design Leaders.

Our guest for the new episode is Patrizia Bertini - International DesignOps Lead at Intuit, large fintech company from the US. Pat is experienced in leading E2E Agile cross-disciplinary projects, and guiding multi-national and multidisciplinary teams.  

In this episode, we discussed the implementation of DesignOps in a company, pointed out its impact to the company's revenue and employees' personal development. Moreover, Patrizia kindly shared her own experience and revealed few cases on operating several design teams from different countries.  

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Mar 24, 202149:45
Peter Merholz on Scaling DesignOrgs

Peter Merholz on Scaling DesignOrgs

Vectorly launches a new series of episodes with Design Leaders.

Our first guest is Peter Merholz, one of the founders of Adaptive Path, co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs and one the world leading consultants on scaling design.

We discussed 5 stages of Design Organization Evolution, levels and Career Paths (skills, positions, roles), Super Senior IC, how design managers can "sell" the design management and why companies should implement framework and what they get from it (Reputation, Retention, Recruiting).

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Feb 17, 202141:15