Plays Well With Others
Episodes
53 episodes
Episode 27: Onboarding and Offboarding
In this episode, Andrew and Jess continue the conversation on interviews to the next logical step: onboarding with a company, from both the perspective of the manager and the new employee. They also provide some actionable advice on when ...
Episode 26: How to Interview (For the Interviewee)
In the second of two episodes on "how to interview," Andrew and Jess walk through an effective interview from the seat of the interviewee or the person being interviewed. Tune in whether you're the interviewer or the interviewee since the...
Episode 25: How to Interview (For the Interviewer)
In the first of two episodes on "how to interview," Andrew and Jess walk through an effective interview from the seat of the hiring manager or person doing the interview. Tune in whether you're the interviewer or the interviewee since the...
Episode 24: What's in a Name: The Specifics
In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss the tactical and practical approach to building role leveling and job families.
Episode 23: What's in a Name?
In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss their thoughts behind when and who to hire and how to manage roles and titles.
Episode 22: Toxic Positivity, the Get Rich Quick Scheme?
In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about toxic positivity in social media and business. How does a lack of authenticity impact your well being and the well being of others?
Episode 21: Just Say No...but...
In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about the importance of saying "no" to new projects with a simple caveat, always follow the "no" with a "but...". "But here's what I can do for you." "But I would love to find a better solution ...
Episode 20: What We Wish We'd Known
In this milestone episode, Andrew and Jess discuss some core pieces of knowledge they wish they'd had going into their careers, and podcasting!
Episode 19: The Infinite Game
In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about how business succeed and fail (in technology adoption and other innovations) by failing to pay attention to prevailing trends in industry or paying too close attention to competition with others.<...
Episode 18: Authenticity in Content, the Spark of Life
In this episode, Andrew and Jess continue (in a way) the conversation around AI and talk about creating authentic content while still leveraging AI as a force multiplier.Megan Smith, The Hidden History of Women in Tech: https://youtu.be...
Episode 17: Should You Be Afraid of Skynet?
In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss the role of technical and product leaders in the world of AI and digital transformation. Just because you can build something doesn't always mean you should. But on the flipside, just because...
Episode 16: Engaging with Engagement
With this episode, Andrew and Jess launch a new format: engaging and responding to comments and reviews. This episode is primarily focused on the return to office policies and approaches. Tune in to hear about specific approaches to...
Episode 15: How to be Successful
In this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about the perspectives involved in determining success and how aligning your own goals and aspirations with your career allows you to be "personally successful."
Episode 14: Remote Community Part 2
In a reprisal of episode 13, in this episode, Andrew and Jess talk about the impacts of prolific remote work on hiring managers and the future of remote work on companies.
Episode 13: Remote Community Part 1
Remote work (post-COVID) has grown dramatically and is currently in a limbo state across the workforce. In this two part episode, Andrew and Jess talk through the value and impact of remote work as an individual contributor (or worker in ...
Episode 12: Tools to get Important Stuff Done
The Eisenhower Matrix and Engineering Manager Event Loop are both tools to help you stay on top of the important tasks that only you can do. Get the rest of the story along with examples in this episode of PWWOEngineering Manager ...
Episode 11: Entrepreneurial Mindset or Art of Attitude
In this episode Andrew and Jess focus on how to lead and act with intentionality in order to keep your results high and your time protected.Check out other episodes here: https://www.playswellwithothers.showAnd here: https://www...
Episode 10: Broken Sense of Urgency
The other side of "Anecdotal Success" is that your organization (or business) doesn't necessarily have a clear path to execute against the bigger vision. That leaves you in a state of everything being important (since you can't tie each t...
Episode 9: Rolling Up Your Sleeves
In this episode, Andrew and Jess discuss how sometimes leadership means rolling up your sleeves and meeting your team where they're at. If you want to enact a visionary strategy, you have to use any means necessary to ensure that the visi...
Episode 8: GSD, Tactical and Practical
In this episode, Andrew and Jess dig deeper into the weeds on the subject of work management and how to build a technology division that works well with each other and delivers effectively. They'll deliver truly tactical and practical met...
Episode 7: GSD to Greatness
In this episode, Andrew and Jess present some experience and hands on skills needed to take your team from "Get Schtick Done" to streamlined, lean, mean, doing whatever it is you do-ing teams!
Episode 6: Paper Problems in a Digital World
In this episode, Andrew dons his developer hat and is the special guest discussing the value of bringing devs along with you in your requirements gathering journey. Andrew and Jess get "tactical and practical" by sharing some specific exa...
Episode 5: Dealing with Change
In this episode Andrew and Jess discuss some of the topics Jeremy Travis Sims brought up in episode 4 primarily focusing on change management and how to optimize quality and experience around change.
Episode 4: Jeremy "Travis" Sims, Very Superstitious
In this episode, we're joined by Jeremy Travis Sims, a solutions engineering lead with evolv consulting, to talk about superstitions in technology. What began as a fun chat about knocking on wood when alluding to a clean release turned in...
Episode 3: Project Management, Company Culture, and New Lingo?
In this episode, Andrew and Jess reflect on the interview with Kelly Silva (episode 2) and discuss how project managers have an impact on company culture. There is also a bit of a rabbit hole on how the lexicon has changed since remote wo...