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Your Team is a System ⚙️ — with Francisco Trindade

Refactoring Podcast • Episode 74

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Today's guest is Francisco Trindade, VP of Engineering, founder of two companies, and author of “Leading Effective Software Teams”, which I just read and loved.
So in this chat, you will learn how to think about your team as a system, how to optimize flow in the developer process, and why you should absolutely hire junior engineers.


🥇 Interview Summary

If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.

It’s the 5-minute, handcrafted takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.

Here is the agenda for today:

Agenda:

  1. 📘 Why a book about teams as systems

  2. 🧠 Systems thinking in day-to-day management

  3. 🌊 Optimizing flow and measuring what matters

  4. 🎯 Autonomy and shaping work for people

  5. 🌱 Why junior engineers still matter

⠀Let’s dive in 👇


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