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Weekly catch up with Michael, Mark, and mates, about software, business, news, and brews

About the show

Join us for a laid back catch up on what's going on in the world of software, enterprise business, news for software and tech, and miscellaneous bureaucracy.

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Episodes

  • Episode 16: FinOps, with Alison McIntyre

    June 13th, 2025  |  1 hr 32 mins
    cloud, devops, finops

    Alison McIntyre, Director of Cloud Economics at Capgemini gives us a tour of modern FinOps, and the state of FinOps report

  • Episode 15: Working with Neurodiversity, with Chris Knight

    March 29th, 2025  |  1 hr 35 mins
    ai, neurodiversity, startup

    Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence

  • Episode 14: DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering, with Dave McNeill

    March 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 15 mins
    devops, kubernetes, operations, platform engineering, sre, vault

    We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions on golang and python, and so much more.

  • Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories, with Raxit Ramani

    March 14th, 2025  |  1 hr 12 mins
    agile, kanban, management, safe, scaled agile, scrum, waterfall

    We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past.

  • Episode 12: Engineering Management, with Director of Engineering Sam Jones

    February 24th, 2025  |  1 hr 18 mins
    engineering management

    We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job.

  • Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital, with creative director Nikki Stearman

    February 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins
    ai, design, games, kids

    We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like.

  • Episode 10: Career Changes and Coding Bootcamps, with Chris Hunter

    February 8th, 2025  |  1 hr 27 mins
    career change, coding bootcamp

    We discuss changing careers into tech from mechanical engineering, and what the process is like for coding bootcamps, and how valuable they are.

  • Episode 9: Contracting Insights, with Marie Wigmore

    January 31st, 2025  |  1 hr 27 mins
    ai, consulting, contracting, jira, news, start ups

    Ever considered contracting? Been a contractor yourself? Or just wondered how it works? We've got the cream of the crop, Marie Wigmore, telling us about her storied career and giving some advice on contracting

  • Episode 8: Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh, with James Balloch

    January 24th, 2025  |  1 hr 36 mins
    big data, bigquery, data lakehouse, data mesh, interviews

    We've got James Balloch on, talking about BigData, his first interview and job change after more than a decade at one company, his amazing commute, and all the interesting news.

  • Episode 7: Executive Strategy and Execution, with Georgia Smith

    January 15th, 2025  |  1 hr 27 mins
    care, consulting, disability, elderly, strategy

    We meet with Georgia Smith, a consultant from Capgemini and formerly from Amazon, about new years resolutions, business strategy errors, consulting, disability and age care, and all the news

  • Episode 6: Recruitment, and starting a company, with Jean-Paul Ashby

    December 20th, 2024  |  1 hr 40 mins
    cv, interviews, news, recruitment, start-up

    We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more

  • Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation, with Ian Reeves

    December 13th, 2024  |  1 hr 17 mins
    ai, data center, incidents, networking, news, saas

    We talk to networking and cloud operations architect/engineer/enthusiast/wizard Ian Reeves, about Data Center Repatriation, and what's in the news