Plato resources from the best leaders

With both the need for a more supportive team setting and shorter feedback cycles, Marc LeBrun, VP Engineering at Flow Kana, addresses two problems with a single solution.

Marc LeBrun

VP Engineering at Flow Kana

Marc LeBrun, VP Engineering at Flow Kana, shows the value in establishing a collaborative relationship with a withdrawn but highly-capable employee. We can then use that bridge to draw the person back into the team and elevate everyone’s performance.

Marc LeBrun

VP Engineering at Flow Kana

Marc LeBrun, VP Engineering at Flow Kana, describes how he empowered teams to make decisions and uplevel their process by adopting a low-tech approach to agile practices.

Marc LeBrun

VP Engineering at Flow Kana

Steve Hoeg, Director of Engineering at Faire, provides a detailed list of instructions that will make your remote work in times of coronavirus pandemics more efficient and productive.

Steve Hoeg

Director of Engineering at Faire

Kowsheek Mahmood, Principal and CTO at ArchetypeTech, explains how he adapted an ineffective team by determining and implementing team-evaluation processes to better align the team on product delivery.

Kowsheek Mahmood

Principal & CTO at ArchetypeTech

Viacheslav Bessonov, Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital, outlines how he improved communication internally - with his fully distributed team, while also improving communication with the customer - located across various time zones.

Viacheslav Bessonov

Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital

Viacheslav Bessonov, Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital, describes the advantages and disadvantages of three different infrastructures and how he made the final decision on which one was best for his company.

Viacheslav Bessonov

Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital

Alessandro Pintaudi, Product Management Director at Payfit, talks about how teams need to focus more time on building the right things and how to keep doing it with scale.

Alessandro Pintaudi

Product Management Director at PayFit

Summary CTO at Culture Purveyor Labs, Kisha M Richardson, who for the most part is self-taught, defines the parameters in which she was able to boost her career. Neither a lack of information nor the fact that she was pigeonholed by her first manager kept Kisha from realizing her professional reach.

Kisha Richardson

CTO at Culture Purveyor Labs

Maria Petrova, Principal Product Manager at Zalando describes how she built an organizational design from product and stack in a way that tech and product effectively function in a collaborative environment.

Maria Petrova

Principal Product Manager at Zalando

Maria Petrova, Principal Product Manager at Zalando details how she strategically mapped out features using a KPI tree to drive measurement, ultimately helping the development team understand their role.

Maria Petrova

Principal Product Manager at Zalando

Maria Petrova, Principal Product Manager at Zalando recounts a problem that she has encountered with several different teams regarding request management and stakeholder management.

Maria Petrova

Principal Product Manager at Zalando

Tarani Vishwanatha, Senior Engineering Manager at Scribd, shared a story where he dealt with the conflict of an upset engineer that did not get a promotion he believed he was entitled to. He explains the distinction between being the most technical and being well rounded. Vishwanatha talks about the importance of being self-aware as it's essential to career growth.

Tarani Vishwanatha

Senior Engineering Manager at Scribd

Paulo André, VP of Engineering at TourRadar, emphasizes all the benefits of enhancing partnership between Product and Engineering and explains how to achieve it.

Paulo André

VP Engineering at TourRadar

Paulo André, VP of Engineering at TourRadar, discusses different aspects of a scalable hiring process.

Paulo André

VP Engineering at TourRadar

Stefan Gruber, VP of Engineering at Bitmovin, emphasizes the importance of task delegation as a key time management skill.

Stefan Gruber

VP of Engineering at Bitmovin

Stefan Gruber, VP of Engineering at Bitmovin, shares how he successfully mediated the conflict between two of his employees.

Stefan Gruber

VP of Engineering at Bitmovin

Stefan Gruber, VP of Engineering at Bitmovin, shares his experience of transitioning from two-week to one-week sprints.

Stefan Gruber

VP of Engineering at Bitmovin

Gourav Chindlur, CEO at Tercept, shares his experience of scaling his company in multiple markets and ensuring the right information flow between the headquarters and multiple geographies.

Gourav Chindlur

CEO at Tercept

Peter Maddison, Founder at Xodiac, discusses how adopting DevOps accelerates the delivery of business value and lays down some concrete measures on how to achieve the improvements.

Peter Maddison

Founder at Xodiac