In this episode, host Kovid Batra welcomes Lubo Drobny, Senior Leader & Software Engineering Coach at Cisco. With an impressive professional background at Seimens & SAP Labs, Lubo also actively contributes to the tech community through blogging, hosting podcasts, and organizing meetups centered around product and software engineering topics.

Today, you can find Lubo talking about building teams from scratch vs branching, engineering metrics, team excellence, & much more.

💡 Highlights

a) Getting Candid

🍃 Lubo’s love for programming, hiking & gardening.

👨‍🏫 A life-defining moment in Lubo’s career shaping his current coaching style.

b) Professional Journey

🚀 The story of leadership at Slido to its acquisition by Cisco.

💼 Working at Slido vs Cisco.

c) Key Takeaways

⚖️ How to balance hiring, training & delivery while scaling up?

📝 Crucial engineering metrics for assessing team excellence.

✅ The impact of metrics on delivery and quality.

🔍 Finding the root cause of inefficiency in teams.

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