alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders OMR

Lead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design💠, cybernetics🤖 and neuroscience 🧠, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive load 🤯 while increasing user value 🎯.
Listen to find out:
- Value Flow💦: What, why and how to find it
- Team Topologies🪢: The 3 team types,1 grouping, and 3 interaction modes
- Why Continuous Stewardship 🛞 is important in software
- Decoupling🧩 in Time: Amazon’s Secret Source
+Why Team Topologies is like Pilates 🏋️ for your company goals🦸

Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/99-matthew-skelton-co-author-of-team-topologies

Embrace the Site Reliability Mindset with Alex Ewerlöf, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars 🚗 and SRE thought leader. Understand how the different aspects of site reliability work together 🪢 and when you need a DevOps vs. Platform Team vs. SRE. Find out how to set your own Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Service Level Agreements (SLA), as laid out by the creator of the Service Level Calculator.
Listen to find out:

- SRE 👷 vs. DevOps ⚒️ vs. Platform Engineering🏗️
- Service Level 101: How to set SLIs🚦, SLOs 🎯and SLAs 🤝
- Washing Machine 🧺🫧 vs. Laundry Room🫧🏘️: The Challenges of Standardization
- OnCall🎧⚠️: Centralised vs. Team-based?
+ The unique software challenges of the automotive industry.

Listen online: https://alphalist.com/podcast/98-alex-ewerlof-sr-staff-engineer-volvo-cars

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This episode was sponsored by DoiT.

Let’s become better Multipliers ✖️ in this CTO Podcast featuring Pat Kua, former CTO of N26 who by popular request now helps CTOs Level Up themselves and their teams. As a sought-after expert in helping ICs transition to leadership roles, Pat shares leadership gems with CTOs.
Listen to find out:
- Why you should fly high 🕊️and dive deep 🤿
- Why even ICs need leadership skills 🧑‍💻
- Maker⚒️ to Multiplier🌬️: What you need to unlearn when you move into management.
- How to communicate: CRY Principle, Translate into Foreign Tongue 💬.. And TCP vs UDP Communication
+ What the long German Hiring Cycles mean for CTOs

Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/97-pat-kua-cto-coach-and-founder-of-the-tech-lead-academy

Discover the power of radical transparency🧐 with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alan’s setup when it comes to internal matters.
Public Salary Framework ✅Searchable Board Meetings ✅4 Managers for 90 FTE✅
Listen to find out:
- Why the Manager Role is split into Leads🧑‍💻 and Coaches 🪔
- How Transparent Compensation 💸works with public Salary Levels and Performance Reviews
- How he hires 🤝: talent density, culture add and more specialized than him
- Why he saw the need for Mistral 🇪🇺
- + How they leverage GitHub Discussions for public decision-making, ownership, and Chesterton’s Fence

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Become a better CTO/CPTO with these insights from David Gebhardt, CTO (and former CPTO) of mobile.de (Germany’s largest car vehicle marketplace). Originally the Head of Tech, David evolved into CPTO, eventually leading the 400-strong Product +Tech teams before evolving business needs led him to bring on a CPO and go back to being ‘just’ the CTO (“only” 250 people). He shares why in this great CTO podcast.

Listen to find out:
- Why he went from CTO to CTPO and back 🤔
- Self-Efficacy as CTO ✅: How to be effective and FEEL effective
- Where innovation 💡 comes from (+ mobile.de’s Innovation Days Format)
+ Why PHP isn’t all that bad

Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/95-david-gebhardt-cto-mobilede

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Let’s hack cybersecurity in 2024 with Melanie Rieback, Co-founder & CEO of Radically Open Security, the world’s first not-for-profit cybersecurity consultancy with a focus on PenTesting🔏.
Melanie is on a mission to fix cybersecurity consulting by putting people before profits and empowering internal teams “how to fish” 🎣.
Tune in to hear about the current cybersecurity landscape from the person who not only authored a viral RFID paper (“Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?”), but also PenTested Tor, Homebrew and Greenpeace.
Listen to find out:

- What is the business model💸 behind Post Growth Entrepreneurship (90% of profits go towards Open Internet Initiatives via NLNet)
- What to prioritise 🕵️‍♀️ in realistic internal IT policies (passwords, backups, updates..)
- Internal vs. External Security Teams
+ Why she uses “Forgot My Password” as a “magic link” to access infrequent sites (and doesn’t remember the password on purpose)
Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/94-melanie-rieback-co-founder-ceo-at-radically-open-security