A Spanner in the Works
The Nuts & Bolts of Business and Technology by A. Spanner. This podcast covers current developments within the business and technology landscape globally, and when applicable with a focus on the impact in Australia & New Zealand and the APAC region.
A Spanner in the Works
Justin Hennessy - CTO at Neto Global, Maropost & Outfit.io
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Andreas Spanner
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Season 1
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Episode 19
Justin shares great insights about his journey from low confidence to achieving his goal he set for himself - to become a CTO.
And as a CTO Justin shares great insights on a variety of topics from how to build and run a SaaS product, balancing buisness realities with technical excellence, why future proofing is a bad idea in the first then minutes alone. Then we discuss SRE, how to evolve and organisations DevOps capability maturity, metrics, leadership VS Leadership and why you don't need deadlines.
- How to build & run a SaaS product
- How to balance technical excellence with business realities
- Why future proofing is bad idea [- 10:00}
- The importance of blurring the lines of development and infrastructure [14:00]
- How to get started with DevOps & evolve the maturity [16:00] and how it becomes a ‘whole of business philosophy'
- How Leadership, Trust and Empowerment are connected [19:00]
- Why you have to hand a business problem over to the technical teams instead of solutions [24:00]
- Metrics [25]
- Why you don’t need deadlines [27]
- Team Topologies [32]
- The importance of genuine, humble & servant leadership [32:30]