John Le Drew on Solving Technical Problems by Addressing Human Issues

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, midnight

b'In this podcast recorded at the Agile India conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to John Le Drew about solving technical problems by addressing the people issues. \\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\n\\u2022\\tVery diverse teams will naturally have conflict, but they still produce better outcomes despite the journey being more of a struggle to get there \\n\\u2022\\tCognitive biases are real and are an evolutionary survival tactic and we need to be very mindful of them \\n\\u2022\\tWe all like to think that we aren\\u2019t biased, but the imbalances in team formation and hiring practices are still perpetuated\\n\\u2022\\tWe can\\u2019t reprogram our brains to remove biases, the way to overcome them is to be aware of them\\n\\u2022\\tIf you address your people as unique human beings with individual needs and work out how to support them in the best way possible for their needs then you will get better outcomes\\n\\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2x79tfD\\n\\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\\n\\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2x79tfD'