Interview: Leadership using Montessori Principles

A few months ago, the incredible Emma Hopkinson-Spark interviewed me during one of the CTOCraft bytes events. The discussion was a 360 view on leadership and people, but the core part we really delve into where: * employees motivation and why most companies are doing it wrong * how autonomy needs to…

Panel: The path from IC to Engineering Manager

Recently, many people who work with me have reached a point where they have started considering moving into a management career path. This career change has become more and more common, and at times is not really clear how different the two careers are. For this reason, I was thrilled…

Talk: Introducing Thinking in Bets in Product teams

A few days ago, I presented at the Agnostic Agile, a talk I worked on for a while on uncertainty in Product development. Although my focus has shifted back to Engineering Leadership, delivery is a crucial aspect of it. Handling uncertainty and creating a process that allows teams to be…

Why your API is not a Platform

In November, I co-presented a talk on Scaling Babylon's Workflow platform [https://simonecasciaroli.com/scaling-babylon-worfkflow-platform/]. While you can watch the recording in the link above to understand how we transitioned and what adjustments we made on our path to becoming a platform team, I want to focus this…