https://www.itshipped.fm/ false en © Steamclock Software Lessons learned leading and building great products. Steamclock Software technology, mobile apps, product, software, career, design, development An interview series featuring product leaders in tech about the lessons they've learned building great products and teams. Hosted by Allen Pike, new episodes every 3 weeks. Supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. An interview series featuring product leaders in tech about the lessons they've learned building great products and teams. Hosted by Allen Pike, new episodes every 3 weeks. Supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. Steamclock Software istw@steamclock.com https://www.itshipped.fm/feed/ Speed and Quality are Complementary, with Wealthsimple Co-Founder Brett Huneycutt 35 Steamclock Software Speed and Quality are Complementary, with Wealthsimple Co-Founder Brett Huneycutt - It Shipped That Way Wealthsimple Co-Founder and CPO Brett Huneycutt shares lessons from building a 1500-person company recently valued at $10B. He relates the underlying wisdom of “Launch now”, how early dogfooding and short cycle times increase both speed and quality, attention to detail as a brand promise, where product decisions should be taste-driven vs. data-driven, and how to hire people you would want to work for. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/35 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/35 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT 00:42:23 false Chat Isn’t Automation, with Zapier’s first PM, Chris Geoghegan 34 Steamclock Software Chat Isn’t Automation, with Zapier’s first PM, Chris Geoghegan - It Shipped That Way Zapier’s first PM and now VP of Product Chris Geoghegan joins us to discuss the relationship between deterministic and LLM-powered automations, scaling a transparent and fully-remote company from millions in revenue to hundreds of millions, whether PM roles are becoming more or less important today, disrupting yourself before anybody else does, and the value of knowing SQL. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/34 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/34 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:00:00 GMT 00:45:43 false Winning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor Johnston 33 Steamclock Software Winning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor Johnston - It Shipped That Way Jane App Co-Founder & Co-CEO Trevor Johnston shares lessons from building a vertical SaaS that now serves hundreds of thousands of clinicians worldwide. We discuss the geometric power of referrals, obsessing over churn, turning your customers into your salespeople, scaling product engineering past Dunbar’s number, transcending a Rails monolith, and finding the fun in 6 hours of Zoom meetings. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/33 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/33 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:51:52 false Making Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCue 32 Steamclock Software Making Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCue - It Shipped That Way Lorilyn McCue, head of AI product at Superhuman, joins to share what she’s learned building LLM-powered products. She talks about how Superhuman executes on shipping delightful software, how to pursue both attention to detail and rapid iteration, optimizing your roadmap for learning, questions that are surprisingly easy (and hard) for LLMs, evaluation and testing of AI-powered features, and ruthlessly prioritizing the user. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/32 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/32 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:46:35 false Building What Customers Need, with Milun Tesovic 31 Steamclock Software Building What Customers Need, with Milun Tesovic - It Shipped That Way Milun Tesovic, founder of Metrolyrics, Cmd, and Gitalytics – and now Parter at Expa – shares lessons learned building startups. We talk about building the largest lyrics site in the world, turning organizational dysfunction into startup ideas, solving problems without making people change their behaviour, getting acquired by Github a month after launch, making early hires on a product team, and how to get a great domain with one weird trick. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/31 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/31 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:59:48 false Solving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola 30 Steamclock Software Solving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola - It Shipped That Way The Browser Company’s Head Of Engineering, Dolapo Falola, shares lessons from Google, Facebook, and Slack, and how they’ve informed his leadership of the team building Arc. He shares about the rush to launch Stories at Meta, reinventing the browser with Arc, finding work that energizes people vs. finding people energized by the work, “working out loud” for velocity, the challenge of bringing Arc to Windows, rewarding complexity vs. business impact, and playing the long game to hire exceptional talent. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/30 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/30 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:45:04 false Scaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate Huston 29 Steamclock Software Scaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate Huston - It Shipped That Way Cate Huston joins to talk about her new book, The Engineering Leader. She shares why she wrote a book, leadership problems endemic to fast-growing organizations, why career growth is more than promotions, coachability, levelling up your hiring pipeline, how hiring “bars” can go wrong, and why energy management matters more than time management. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/29 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/29 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:00:00 GMT 01:02:50 false Building Slack, with Johnny Rodgers 28 Steamclock Software Building Slack, with Johnny Rodgers - It Shipped That Way Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s founding engineers, shares stories and lessons from building Slack. He shares Slack’s origin, the art of extreme responsiveness to customer feedback, how features like threads and reacji came together, Slack’s positioning and north star, product-led growth as a path to building startups, and how to have an outsized impact in a scaling organization. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/28 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/28 Wed, 22 May 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:56:06 false Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres 27 Steamclock Software Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres - It Shipped That Way Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, joins to share lessons from her popular and acclaimed book. We talk about the benefits of constantly talking to customers, why it can be worth seeking delight rather than strictly building products in terms of problems, how to avoid choosing perverse outcomes and metrics, and how to get the truth from customers – despite their aspirational overconfidence. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/27 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/27 Wed, 01 May 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:55:37 false The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal 26 Steamclock Software The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal - It Shipped That Way Luke Hutscal, Principal Engineer at Clio – formerly of Shopify and Testflight – joins to talk about finding ways to learn rapidly, the downsides of a mercenary mindset, spending time with people who intimidate you, building a coaching village, making wrong things look wrong, choosing boring technology, resume-driven development, and putting in the reps to get great at hiring. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/26 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/26 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:56:23 false Focusing on the Right Things, with Durable Founder James Clift 25 Steamclock Software Focusing on the Right Things, with Durable Founder James Clift - It Shipped That Way James Clift, Founder and CEO of Durable and VisualCV, joins us to talk about helping folks build great businesses, staying long-term optimistic yet short-term pessimistic, choosing between exciting ideas vs. clearly profitable ones, the distraction of “fake work”, getting good at rapidly trying and killing ideas, lessons learned from two years of building on LLMs, and the longevity of non-chat workflows. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/25 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/25 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:52:53 false The Frontier of Developer Tooling, with GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio 24 Steamclock Software The Frontier of Developer Tooling, with GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio - It Shipped That Way Eric Amodio, creator of GitLens, GitKraken CTO, and former Principal Engineer on VS Code, joins us to talk about founding products by scratching your own itch, building GitLens from an idea to tens of millions of users, the audacity of charging for software, the origins of github.dev and Copilot at Microsoft, LLMs as a new layer of abstraction for developers, and how GitKraken is helping engineers understand large codebases faster. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/24 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/24 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:50:39 false Building and Funding Growth Teams, with Panobi CEO Merci Grace 23 Steamclock Software Building and Funding Growth Teams, with Panobi CEO Merci Grace - It Shipped That Way Merci Grace, CEO and co-founder of Panobi, and former partner at Lightspeed Ventures and first Head of Growth at Slack, shares lessons about growth as a discipline, pitfalls of fundraising and her “Marauder’s Map” to raising capital, best practices for starting and scaling growth teams, and her vision for making metrics and growth tooling far better. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/23 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/23 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:00:00 GMT 00:56:16 false Winning with Boring Competence, with Ian Crosby 22 Steamclock Software Winning with Boring Competence, with Ian Crosby - It Shipped That Way Ian Crosby, founding CEO of Bench and now Teal, talks building Bench from zero to hundreds, how vertical SaaS is transforming SMB startups, what it really takes to become highly profitable, why Teal hires for “boring competence”, paying highly for top talent, the psychology of firing, and the limits of culture docs. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/22 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/22 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:00:00 GMT 01:00:41 false A Way Better Mousetrap, with Quilt founder Paul Lambert 21 Steamclock Software A Way Better Mousetrap, with Quilt founder Paul Lambert - It Shipped That Way Paul Lambert, CEO and founder of Quilt and former Director at Google’s Area 120, joins Allen to talk society-scale problems, why searching for product-market fit is overrated, the power of building a better mousetrap, why the “internal incubator” model usually fails, how modern hardware startups iterate rapidly, and why different cities lend themselves to different startups. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/21 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/21 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:52:41 false Doing Something Hard, with Unblocked Founder Dennis Pilarinos 20 Steamclock Software Doing Something Hard, with Unblocked Founder Dennis Pilarinos - It Shipped That Way Dennis Pilarinos, founder of Buddybuild and now Unblocked (and former Director at Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) shares what he’s learned about product leadership. We talk about why you should build a product that is hard, how providing support is key to product culture, staying deeply curious about what’s not working, cutting down recurring meetings, and how startups with distribution outcompete the giants. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/20 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/20 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:44:19 false The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors 19 Steamclock Software The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors - It Shipped That Way Honeycomb.io co-founder and CTO Charity Majors joins Allen to share what she’s learned growing Honeycomb from idea to 170-person distributed company, including what goes into being a good manager beyond supporting your reports, how to build a team that feels supportive and safe while still keeping boundaries and limits, systems thinking for teams and cultures, the difference between generic company values and ones that take a stand, and why having a healthy culture is more important than having a novel one. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/19 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/19 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:00 GMT 01:02:59 true Building Great Experiences Using LLMs, with David Hariri 18 Steamclock Software Building Great Experiences Using LLMs, with David Hariri - It Shipped That Way Ada co-founder David Hariri joins Allen to talk about an audacious product discovery process that kicked off a 250-employee startup, limitations of hand-scripted workflows, strengths and weaknesses of LLM techniques like code execution, RAG, and function calling, and how support automation may create whole new business models. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/18 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/18 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:58:51 false The Puzzle of Engineering Leadership, with Michael Lopp 17 Steamclock Software The Puzzle of Engineering Leadership, with Michael Lopp - It Shipped That Way Michael Lopp, aka Rands, joins Allen to talk about the fundamental need for growth, finding your team’s core motivations, the value of writing for developing clear thinking, the joys and perils of writing a book, the art of a compelling presentation, habits for editing and refining writing, and fostering clarity of responsibility – and curiosity – on your team. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/17 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/17 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:48:49 false Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy 16 Steamclock Software Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy - It Shipped That Way Tiffany Conroy, former VP of Engineering at SoundCloud, shares what she’s learned about where new engineering managers stumble and how to support them, considering whether you want to be a manager at all, the value of explicitly asking those around you what success means, the power of having the confidence to say “I don’t know”, coaching managers through their first case of underperformance, how rigid role definitions hold back folks that perform both product and engineering work, the power of the Six Thinking Hats for making intense decisions, and the cultural responsibilities of senior leadership. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/16 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/16 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:55:43 false Telling Product Stories with Adam Lisagor of Sandwich 15 Steamclock Software Telling Product Stories with Adam Lisagor of Sandwich - It Shipped That Way Adam Lisagor, Founder of Sandwich Video, shares what he’s learned about the nature of storytelling, about how to zoom out to tell the story of your product, understanding the emotional valence of our work, when pre-visualization and storyboarding does and doesn’t pay off, spotting great talent, the value of making pretty good decisions quickly, learning how to let go (a little bit) as a founder, execution-centric leadership vs. results-centric leadership, what kinds of products he likes to invest in, and making people glad to have worked with you. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/15 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/15 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:56:09 false Small But Mighty, with Ridwell Co-founder Aliya Marder 14 Steamclock Software Small But Mighty, with Ridwell Co-founder Aliya Marder - It Shipped That Way Aliya Marder, Co-Founder of Ridwell, joins us to share what she’s learned about the people-service mindset for product work, the demands of running a startup with a real-world footprint, the power of a higher mission for rallying a company, doing more with a smaller team, the pathologies of product backlogs, strategic communication past 150 employees, and the challenge of delegating for detail-oriented leaders. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/14 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/14 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:40:23 false Engineering Practices That Pay Off, with Later CTO Ian MacKinnon 13 Steamclock Software Engineering Practices That Pay Off, with Later CTO Ian MacKinnon - It Shipped That Way Ian MacKinnon, CTO of Later and Mavrck, shares lessons learned building Later from founding to success to acquisition – and from the startups that weren’t so fortunate. We discuss early engineering practices that paid off, approaches for moving fast and tolerance for breaking (small) things in that pursuit, the pros and cons of PaaS platforms like Heroku, the insurmountability of building the wrong thing, the virtues of boring tech stacks, and Later’s successes using GPT-4 to migrate and modernize legacy codebases. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/13 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/13 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:46:58 false The Intersection of Business and Design, with former Shopify Product GM Lynsey Thornton 12 Steamclock Software The Intersection of Business and Design, with former Shopify Product GM Lynsey Thornton - It Shipped That Way Lynsey Thornton shares what she learned helping Shopify grow almost 100x as GM of Core Product, VP of UX, and more. We review some common challenges companies hit as they scale, how to identify hires that have high growth potential, how different personalities contribute to team effectiveness, how to design an org for maximum impact, user research as a driver of strategic outcomes rather than checkbox-checking, and how to level up as a leader. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/12 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/12 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:54:20 false Product Management and Growing Up as an Organization, with Mailchimp’s Bruce Alderson 11 Steamclock Software Product Management and Growing Up as an Organization, with Mailchimp’s Bruce Alderson - It Shipped That Way Bruce Alderson, Senior Product Manager at Mailchimp, shares what he’s learned in 20 years as a CTO, engineering leader, and product manager. We discuss the role of multi-disciplinarians in large orgs, engineering leadership vs. product leadership, the value of repeating yourself, finding the team members who can help share context across your company, what it means to stay focused as you scale, and being effective in the face of great uncertainty. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/11 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/11 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:53:33 false Building Developer Experiences at Slack, with Steve Gill 10 Steamclock Software Building Developer Experiences at Slack, with Steve Gill - It Shipped That Way Steve Gill, Slack’s Director of DevRel Engineering, digs in to the craft of building great APIs for developers. We discuss the power of open source for informing platform work, building platforms that developers will actually use, the tricky issues around building and supporting SDKs, the concept of “raccooning” at Slack, how Slack’s new composable apps enable a whole new category of app, and the importance of saying “no” when a new feature isn’t working out. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/10 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/10 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:48:13 false Principal Engineering at AWS Scale, with Nikki Pinski 9 Steamclock Software Principal Engineering at AWS Scale, with Nikki Pinski - It Shipped That Way Nikki Pinski, Principal Engineer at AWS, shares how AWS is organized for autonomy and customer-centric product development, dealing with millions of events per second, and how Staff and Principal Engineer career tracks work across different software organizations. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/9 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/9 Wed, 17 May 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:47:20 false Scaling a UX Org from 30 to 450, with Shopify’s former Head of Design Kyle Peatt 8 Steamclock Software Scaling a UX Org from 30 to 450, with Shopify’s former Head of Design Kyle Peatt - It Shipped That Way Kyle Peatt, former Head of Design at Shopify, shares lessons he learned helping rapidly scale Shopify’s UX team from 30 folks to 450. We talk about effective triads of product, design, and engineering leadership; building a UX organization without becoming a matrix org; the concept of UX Leads that manage folks from front-end engineering through design and content strategy; what makes a Staff Designer; and the importance of having an opinion in design leadership. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/8 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/8 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:56:06 false Effective and Scalable Machine Learning, with Opendoor Co-Founder Ian Wong 7 Steamclock Software Effective and Scalable Machine Learning, with Opendoor Co-Founder Ian Wong - It Shipped That Way Ian Wong, co-founder of Opendoor, shares what he’s learned about machine learning and data science in his work as CTO of Opendoor and helping detect fraud at Square. We talk about the differences between descriptive and predictive ML, approaches to human-in-the-loop prediction, setting up a data science org to deliver real business impact, why so many internal tooling projects fail, and how leaders should be dividing their attention between top-level strategy and the details that really matter. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/7 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/7 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:46:26 false Architecting Apps at Netflix Scale, with Arik Devens 6 Steamclock Software Architecting Apps at Netflix Scale, with Arik Devens - It Shipped That Way Netflix’s Arik Devens shares what he’s learned about architecting mobile apps with many millions of users, building from early adventures at Netscape and Palm up to architectural roles at Fitbit and Netflix. We talk about Netflix’s culture of small, high-trust teams; some of the pathologies of very large engineering teams; how to sell new architectural patterns to a team working on a large existing codebase; and the challenges of A/B testing hundreds of millions of users. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/6 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/6 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:56:16 false Making Billions with Ethical Onboarding, with Jaycee Day 5 Steamclock Software Making Billions with Ethical Onboarding, with Jaycee Day - It Shipped That Way Jaycee Day, a seasoned designer having worked at GitHub and Blinkist, shares what she learned designing a now world-famous app onboarding flow. We talk about onboarding flows, subscription and trial mechanics in apps, the tensions between ethics and short-term profiteering, the business model of mobile games, and A/B testing. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/5 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/5 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:41:48 false Solving Engineering Problems with DuckDuckGo’s Cate Huston 4 Steamclock Software Solving Engineering Problems with DuckDuckGo’s Cate Huston - It Shipped That Way Cate Huston shares what she’s learned leading engineering teams at DuckDuckGo, Automattic, and Google. We talk about the challenges of hiring directors, what makes DuckDuckGo weird, supporting team happiness vs. team effectiveness, the quagmire of trying to measure team velocity, and the tradeoffs inherent in cross-platform app development. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/4 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/4 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:00:00 GMT 00:39:52 false Effectively Leading Technical Teams, with Khan Academy’s Shawn Jansepar 3 Steamclock Software Effectively Leading Technical Teams, with Khan Academy’s Shawn Jansepar - It Shipped That Way Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy, shares what he’s learned about keeping product teams engaged, effective engineering practices and how to teach them, and building trust. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/3 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/3 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:00:00 GMT 00:41:20 false Lessons Learned Building Alexa, with Product Manager Polly Allen 2 Steamclock Software Lessons Learned Building Alexa, with Product Manager Polly Allen - It Shipped That Way Polly Allen, former Principal Product Manager on Amazon Alexa, shares what she’s learned about the challenging world of building products for voice and AI, as well the roles of data-driven decision-making and computing science education in product leadership. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/2 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/2 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:00:00 GMT 00:43:53 false How Not to Ship Your Org Chart, with veteran product designer Brad Ellis 1 Steamclock Software How Not to Ship Your Org Chart, with veteran product designer Brad Ellis - It Shipped That Way Brad Ellis pulls from his experience designing for Square, Lyft, and many other products to share what he’s learned about the incredible value of user testing, scaling product design across a large org, and how to make great experiences instead of shipping your org chart. Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs. ]]> https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/1 https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/1 Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:00:00 GMT 00:58:36 false