Alexis Monville (en)

Category: Le Podcast

  • Jason’s Thirteen Rules of a Team

    Jason’s Thirteen Rules of a Team

    In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure of receiving Jason McKerr. Jason is the Engineering leader for Management and Automation at Red Hat (great things like Ansible, Insights, Satellite…) My objective was to have Jason explain his Thirteen Rules of a Team which I discovered during one mentoring session with one…

  • All about OKRs with Bart

    All about OKRs with Bart

    In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure of discussing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with Bart den Haak. Bart is a Software Engineer who fell in love with OKRs at a startup more than 10 years ago. He has continued to use OKRs since then and he is now advising companies on…

  • Do you want 10x Engineers?

    Do you want 10x Engineers?

    In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure of discussing with Julien Danjou. Julien has more than 20 years of experience as an open source software hacker. Julien wrote two books about Python. I wanted to ask him about the myth of 10x Engineers and what advice he could have for Engineers who…

  • The Anatomy of Peace

    The Anatomy of Peace

    In this episode of Le Podcast, John Poelstra and I had a conversation about the book The Anatomy of Peace. John recommended the book in our previous conversation on how (not) to provide feedback. I read it twice and fell in love with it. John mentioned that in Changing Your Team From The Inside, I…

  • Psychological Safety

    Psychological Safety

    Psychological Safety is the term coined by Amy Edmondson, the author of The Fearless Organization. I already talked about Psychological Safety, when I presented the work of Google on the project Aristotle, and how it was a very good conversation starter for my team. The two other books I mentioned in that episode of Le…

  • When your team is distributed

    When your team is distributed

    John Poelstra, Michael Doyle and I talk about how to make distributed teams efficient. We had that conversation while we were spread over 15 timezones: John in Portland, Oregon, Michael in Brisbane, Australia, and me in Boston, Massachusetts. The conversation is republished from John’s show. Let me know what you think! Happy to connect to…

  • Changing Your Team with John Poelstra

    Changing Your Team with John Poelstra

    I had the opportunity to have a great conversation about the book, Changing Your Team From The Inside, on John Poelstra’s show. John proposed the idea to cross-publish our conversation on our respective podcasts. In order to do that, I had to re-listen to the conversation and I really enjoyed it. Yes, of course, there…

  • Coming to terms with terms – Michael DeLanzo

    Coming to terms with terms – Michael DeLanzo

    In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure to receive Michael DeLanzo to discuss the importance of coming to terms with terms. Michael and I met at a Boston Spin event when I gave a talk: The Change Starts Here. You can find more about speaking engagement here. What precipitated the idea…

  • How (not) to provide feedback – John Poelstra

    How (not) to provide feedback – John Poelstra

    In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure of having John Poelstra to discuss a very personal experience about providing feedback.

  • How to deal with your stars – Frank Jansen

    How to deal with your stars – Frank Jansen

    In this episode, I had the great pleasure of having Frank Jansen join Le Podcast to discuss how to deal with stars.