Building a Strong Engineering Culture – Chuck Greb
summary
Roundtable captures concrete practices that build culture: prioritize psychological safety so juniors ask questions, adopt servant leadership and shared ownership, run daily tech huddles and “parking lot” deep dives, require RFCs and decision records, promote small proof of concept sandboxes, and hold blameless postmortems. Use the three A’s (acknowledge, align, assure), guide rather than micromanage, favor data‑driven choices, and schedule remote rituals (virtual beer tasting, brown‑bag demos) to strengthen relationships and accelerate adoption.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Engineering culture intro
- 3:10What makes great culture
- 8:48Culture vs execution
- 12:44Servant leadership
- 18:10Anti-patterns to avoid
- 20:19Practices to strengthen culture
- 26:22Metrics-driven decisions
- 28:30Culture in hybrid/remote teams
- 31:38Influencing culture
- 35:49Closing takeaways
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