In this insightful episode of The It Depends Podcast, host Kevin Goldsmith delves into a critical aspect of leadership: writing... more

Join Kevin Goldsmith on the "It Depends" podcast as he explores the nuanced world of performance reviews in technology leadership.... more

In this episode of the "It Depends" podcast, Kevin Goldsmith, a seasoned Chief Technology Officer, explores the importance of effective... more

In this episode of the It Depends podcast, host Kevin Goldsmith delves into the complexities of managing partially distributed engineering... more

In this episode of the "It Depends" podcast, host Kevin Goldsmith, a seasoned CTO and tech executive, explores the valuable... more

Welcome to the It Depends podcast with your host, Kevin Goldsmith! Kevin is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer with over... more

In this episode of the "It Depends" podcast, host Kevin Goldsmith delves into the complexities of decision-making in management and... more

While nothing can guarantee you will never have to lay off someone from your team, ensuring the team is aligned... more

In this episode, Kevin delves into ’The P Word’ and discusses the good and bad sides of politics in the... more

Teams create their own languages organically, which is essential to team bonding and belonging. Understand this and use it to... more

If you are on the technology management track, the final role is Chief Technology Officer. Still, the path to the... more

Once again, two shorter chapters in this podcast from the book. How I get my focused work done:When you are a... more

Two chapters from the book this week! Discussing a deliberate approach to managing your calendar and tracking how you actually... more

Taking a day, once, twice, or even four times a year to reflect on how things are going and think... more

One of the questions I most frequently get from engineering leaders or aspiring leads is "how much coding do you... more

Chapter 3 from It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022 In this episode, we discuss my experience building an exercise to... more

How can top-down culture change be effective? Looking at Microsoft and Yahoo as examples.   Links: It Depends book: https://itdependsbook.net Questions/comments: contact@itdependsbook.net

We discuss how critical failure is to innovation and how to handle failure well. We talk about how software used... more

Welcome to the podcast! This episode introduces the podcast and includes the introduction to the book ”It Depends: Writing on... more