Are you a manager of a team of developers looking to improve your skills and learn new ideas? Look no further! Podcasts are a great and convenient way to learn and grow as a manager.
We’ve compiled a list of the eight best podcasts for managing dev teams. Whether you’re dealing with challenges related to collaboration, productivity, or something else entirely, these podcasts will provide valuable insights and solutions. Check them out to find your new go-to source of edutainment and professional development.
Hosted by Dan Lines, co-founder and COO of LinearB
One of the most popular podcasts for dev managers, Dev Interrupted is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Lines, co-founder and COO of LinearB, a workforce analytics platform for software development organizations. Dev Interrupted invites dev leaders from companies like Atlassian and Stack Overflow to discuss topics such as metrics and developer experience. Straightforward, down-to-earth, and empathetic, Dan and his interviewees offer no-BS directness, advice, and insights from people in the industry, including CEOs, project managers, and senior engineering leaders.
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Hosted by Coding Sans
Level-Up Engineering is hosted by Coding Sans – a software development agency building serverless web and cross-platform mobile apps. The podcast is all about what the title says: helping dev leaders level up their teams. Each episode reveals management secrets of the most successful tech leaders from companies like Meta, Electronic Arts, and Meetup, covering a wide range of topics including time-management, career coaching, and tools.
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Hosted by the Fellow.app team
While it’s not dev-specific, SuperManagers, brought to you by the team at Fellow.app, still has a lot to offer professionals looking to excel at leadership and management. CEO Aydin Mirzaee interviews world-class leaders about a host of interesting topics like vulnerability and authenticity, the neuroscience of leadership, and unlocking creativity.
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Hosted by the Engineering Leadership Community
On the Engineering Leadership Podcast’s weekly episodes brought to you by the Engineering Leadership Community, you’ll be able to hear about the stories and experiences of great dev leaders, getting actionable insights from experts in the application of leadership. You’ll learn all about habits, tips, and tricks that will empower you to improve as a manager from guests from companies like Change.org, Roblox, and VMWare.
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Hosted by Slava Imeshev and Adam Axelrod
The hosts of Effective Engineering Manager, Slava Imeshev and Adam Axelrod, share a collective 25+ years of engineering management experience, and they bring it to the table on this practical podcast. They share their knowledge, solutions, and best practices that can help dev managers of all levels effectively manage teams and deliver timely, high-quality results. Topics include managing horizontally and vertically, establishing and running an effective software development lifecycle, growing engineering and management careers, and more.
Three of our favorite episodes:
Hosted by Wes Winham
A weekly podcast, Scaling Software Teams brings stories of trials, tribulations, and success from high-growth engineering leaders around the world. You’ll hear about interesting and relevant topics like hiring developers, structuring teams, scaling collaborations, and managing managers, all to help you navigate growth with grace.
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Hosted by Pat Sweet
Engineering & Leadership is hosted by Pat Sweet with the goal of helping dev leaders learn and apply important soft skills. Calling itself an “audio business school for engineers,” the podcast hosts a diverse range of guests who speak about topics like managing international engineering teams, mentorship, and women in engineering.
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Hosted by Plato HQ
Presented by Plato HQ, a company offering an engineering mentorship program, Decisive Moments for Engineering Leaders brings with it an intense commitment and dedication to helping people become great dev leaders to the podcast format. It features both inspiring stories and more tactical tips and advice for engineering leaders from companies like Asana, Salesforce, and GitHub.
Three of our favorite episodes:
Tabnine is an AI assistant tool used by over 1 million developers from thousands of companies worldwide. Tabnine Enterprise has been built to help software engineering teams write high-quality code faster and more efficiently, accelerating the entire SDLC. Designed for use in enterprise software development environments, Tabnine Enterprise offers a range of features and benefits, including the highest security and compliance standards and features, as well as support for a variety of programming languages and IDEs.
Eran reacts to a recent quote from AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything.” He points out that the limitations to “everything” won’t be the computational ability but the access to sufficient data. Kyle challenges whether the outcomes of ML decisions will be acceptable in life if they’re less intuitive (even if technically more optimal). The conversation broadens to the classic questions of distinctions between AIs and humans (feelings, emotions, empathy), and whether we’re headed to a future that freedom of choice is subjugated to the “superiority” of machine-learning-based decision making.
Kyle shares concerns about how AI/ML have already surpassed what humans can understand. Eran talks about how AI can not only make its predictions based on data sets that exceed our mental capacity, but also leave some explanation breadcrumbs that humans can understand and audit. The discussion shifts to exploring the practicality of AI translating programs from one language to another, and even generating a higher level, idealized or universal “one language to rule them all”.
Kyle ponders how AI tools might in the future better understand our programs, and adjust and augment them as we write code. Eran shares some predictions about how that might play out. The discussion broadens to whether AI-refined code may move programs (and programming!) in a productive or destructive direction, and whether (and how!?) tools can keep assisting developers instead of replacing them.