Podcast – Episode 20:
Taking Agile and working to big it up
Creating Agile autonomy org-wide
Warby Parker is a big name in the spectacle industry, so it was exciting to have Sung Choi, their Senior Director of engineering, come onto the show and share his wisdom. Sung is a true Agilist and seated in a company that seems to create the perfect environment for the values and principles of Agile to thrive.
The key takeaways from the podcast are:
- The power of leading with integrity.
- Aligning around values and principles to deliver customer-centric business value from the technology space.
- Using the “commander’s intent” to inspire a solution mindset in the teams and allowing autonomy to flourish.
On Mitigating risk: “Communication! That’s one of the most important tools in any tech leader’s toolbox. It’s frequent and methodical communication with all the people involved. Maybe even over-indexing when necessary, because while it’s definitely cumbersome to have to listen to the same pitch, or the same update three or four different times over the course of a week, it’s a lot less painful to have to clean up messes caused by lack of communication.”
TLDR: Straight to the point
(Quick Links)
We all live busy lives, and sometimes a long podcast is too much of a time-footprint for our busy schedules. So, to help you get to the bit you’re more interested in, use our table of contents below. Quick links to help you get straight to the point.
2. Introducing Charles White (the journey to becoming a CTO)
3. What does a tech leader do at Warby Parker
4. The journey to being a tech leader
5. Leading with integrity
6. Bringing integrity and value to life
7. Is Warby Parker Agile
8. The challenges of having autonomy in the teams
9. Success stories of giving autonomy to teams
10. Autonomy going curly at the edges (going wrong)
12. Outcomes (commander's intent)
13. Measuring and metrics
14. If you could measure anything, what would you measure?
15. Leading through the COVID storm
16. Leading lots of initiatives that touch and influence each other
17. Mitigating the risk of change
18. Sung's key takeaway for the tech leadership community
19. TC's takeways from the podcast