The Retrospective (Jeremy Brown & Péter Szász)

The Retrospective: A Podcast for Engineering Leaders

If you want to learn more about leading engineering teams, this podcast can help you improve your skills and grow in your role.

We are Péter Szász and Jeremy Brown, experienced technology leaders and your hosts.

We created this podcast to help people who manage tech teams or want to learn how to do so.

We cover principles and concepts, provide how-to guides and tools to help you meet common challenges, share stories from our experiences, and offer advice on how to be effective leaders in the tech world.

Each 20-30-minute episode discusses one topic.

We aim to cover all areas related to engineering leadership:

• How to grow your career and become an engineering manager
• Starting to manage a new team and helping new people join your team
• Delivering results that align with the business goals
• Working well with other teams in the company
• Enabling team and individual success
• Building and maintaining a strong organizational culture
• Hiring practices and growing your team
• Managing managers and scaling leadership
• Team topologies and organizational structure

The podcast is helpful for:

• Engineering managers and those who want to become engineering managers.
• Those on the technical leadership track and who want to grow their leadership skills.
• Senior managers who want to improve themselves and the managers they coach.