Hello dear audience! In the wrap-up to a shorter season 2 we explain what's been going on and why we haven't been able to meet up and record as frequently. We're going on hiatus for a while and hope to be back later in the year!--- Send i

Thinking about quitting Tech?

Feb 28th, 2022 25m 16s

Ever had one of those days, weeks or years? Have you thought, even briefly, about giving up the tech life and pursuing another career dream? Spurred on by a recent Reddit discussion, Sanj, Gwen and Neil look into the reasons why people might oc

Not Asking For Pay Rises?

Feb 14th, 2022 24m 2s

With inflation skyrocketing and energy bills about to go through the roof, the governer of the Bank of England has this week warned against workers asking for substantial pay rises, asking everybody to deal with the "pain" of the rising cost-of

Handling Incidents and Outages

Feb 7th, 2022 26m 38s

What do we tell people when things go wrong in our organisations? This week, there have been a couple of write-ups of recent high-profile outages at Roblox and Mozilla, which - when paired with the well-documented outage at Facebook that we dis

Building Behaviours Over Setting Goals

Jan 31st, 2022 24m 18s

It's that time of year where everybody's talking about goal-setting, but are goals the correct form of measurement? This week, the TTW crew are talking about goals and habits, and their experiences with how effective they are at modifying behav

When Open Source Goes Wrong

Jan 24th, 2022 26m 17s

We're back for our second season! We're starting off with a dicussion about how we use open source software in our workplaces, after a couple of major recent scares and outages. How do you keep track of what you're incorporating into your soft

Ep 15 - Series Finale: The Retro!

Dec 6th, 2021 35m 26s

It's the end of our first season, so Gwen, Sanj and Neil are having a podcast retrospective. We chat about what's worked (and what hasn't), sharing some behind-the-scenes nuggets along the way, and propose some subtle but potentially exciting c

Ep 14 - The Long Stand Up!

Nov 29th, 2021 37m 56s

As promised, this week we're showcasing all of the parts of our working lives that we normally have to rush through. It's the first (and probably not the last) Stand-Up Special! Gwen shares some exciting professional developments and hopes for

Ep 13 - Thriving in The Great Resignation!

Nov 22nd, 2021 38m 41s

We've spoken in recent episodes about the volatility of the current job market, and how "The Great Resignation" is offering great opportunities for those who choose to change companies. But what about those who choose to stay? This week, we tal

Ep 12 - Complexity is Killing Software Developers!

Nov 15th, 2021 32m 2s

Solving complex problems with software is, unsurprisingly, complex in itself. But what can we do about it? We weigh up the pros and cons of microservices, containers and external libraries as we analyse whether we're guilty of exchanging short-

Ep 11 - Climate Tech and COP26!

Nov 8th, 2021 38m 18s

It's been a week dominated by COP26, so we're turning our attention to some of the latest developments in climate tech, looking at whether green tech startups could be the key to saving the planet, and discussing how an individual's contributio

Ep 10 - Are Stand Ups Dead!?

Nov 1st, 2021 39m 32s

First, there was the stand-up. Then, we remotely discovered the asynchronous catch-up. But is there something better? This week, we discuss the blog post from Honeycomb about their "meandering team sync", designed to decrease frustrations, impr

Ep 9 - 4-Day Work Weeks!

Oct 25th, 2021 36m

Is the idea of a four-day working week too good to be true? Is it all just spin and wishful thinking? Atlassian have crunched the numbers by having a team run a nine-week experiment over the summer, and their results make for interesting readin

Ep 8 - Who's Watching Our Kids?

Oct 18th, 2021 35m 38s

In an episode which we promise is considerably more entertaining than the subject matter might suggest, the TWW crew take a look at the rise of digital monitoring software within schools and the workplace. We discuss the trade-offs between safe

Ep 7 - Disaster at Facebook!

Oct 11th, 2021 38m 47s

This week, we've got basically no choice other than to cover everything that's been happening during a chaotic week at Facebook. There's been downtime, whistleblower revelations, and rumours of a reversal of the company's "WFH Forever" policy (

Ep 6 - Buy Now, Pay Later!

Oct 4th, 2021 35m 16s

Faced with a tight deadline, the team finally manage to deliver an episode of about the desired length! This week, Gwen, Neil and Sanj are looking at the explosion of new digital players in the 'Buy Now Pay Later' market, looking at the ethics

Ep 5 - Talking Openly About Pay!

Sep 27th, 2021 54m 17s

This week, our main story is the debate over whether companies (and employees) should be happy to disclose salaries, in an attempt to drive pay equality, a chat made somewhat harder by Neil's repeated inability to pronounce the word "equality".

Ep 4 - Frustration and time-wasting on Slack!

Sep 20th, 2021 48m 53s

On this week's episode, we focus on some of the bad habits that we've seen when using communication platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and how we can help to adapt and prevent lost productivity. Plus one of us has job news, one of us

Ep 3 - When Testing In Public Goes Wrong!

Sep 13th, 2021 51m 40s

On this week's episode, we look at the controversy behind an issue whereby planning applications were mistakenly modified in production by a junior engineer who thought that they were working in a test environment. We'll discuss whether we shou

Ep 2 - Why is it so hard to get a Software Engineering job?

Sep 6th, 2021 53m 56s

We're finding our stride in Episode 2, even though one of us is slightly under the weather. This week's discussion focuses on a recent trending article about modern challenges with hiring and technical interviews: we talk about technical tests,

Ep 1 - Remote Pay, The Great Resignation, GitHub Copilot and Codespaces

1 Aug 30th, 2021 1h 1m

Welcome to the debut episode of Tech Team Weekly! As is always the case with software development, our first attempt at a 30-minute podcast turns out to be just over an hour long. We look at the ongoing saga of working during the pandemic and "

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Trailer - Introducing Tech Team Weekly!

Aug 26th, 2021 1m 9s

Welcome to Tech Team Weekly, a new podcast launching next Monday! Join your hosts Sanjay Purswani (The Engineer), Gwen Diagram (The Manager) and Neil Studd (The Tester) as they guide you through the latest technology breaking news from the UK.