How to Quit Wasting Your Team's Time With James Turnbull

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Join us for this episode of the Level Up podcast featuring James Turnbull, VP of Product and Engineering at Smartrr. James is a prolific engineering leader previously serving as SVP of Engineering at Sotheby's, VP of Engineering at Timber, and countless leadership roles at companies like Microsoft, Kickstarter, Docker, Venmo, and Puppet. He is also the author of numerous technical books, including The Docker book, The Terraform book, and The Art of Monitoring. Today he joins us to discuss the importance of seamless onboarding, the benefits of a turnkey experience to accelerate productivity, and how you should look at building out a Platform team.Join us as we discuss:

  • When and how you should build out a Platform team (Don’t just rename DevOps)
  • Having a product mentality and focus on communication
  • Optimizing the developer experience
  • How not to waste your team’s time
  • Get actionable feedback before tackling DevX initiatives

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