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Simone Casciaroli
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Nov 12, 2022

Platform as a Product: How to set your objectives

While, as engineers, we often focus on engineering metrics (throughput, availability, security, for example) for growing a platform, I think it is more important to ensure the correct product metrics are in place. I’m not advocating for forgetting about non-functional requirements. Still, I think those should often sit in Product…

Platform

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Platform as a Product: How to set your objectives
Platform as a Product: How to set your objectives
Platform

9 min read


Oct 22, 2022

Talk: What Leaders can learn from the Montessori method (Devoxx)

Last week I presented in Belgium in front of the passionate Devoxx audience a talk on how I use the Montessori principles as a leadership tool. Very impressed with the Devoxx organisation; it is not an easy feat to run a conference with 3000+ attendees smoothly. I shared for the…

Leadership

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Talk: What Leaders can learn from the Montessori method (Devoxx)
Talk: What Leaders can learn from the Montessori method (Devoxx)
Leadership

2 min read


Oct 15, 2022

Podcast: How to drive the creation of a Platform

Last week I was part of a Panel discussing Platform teams/products with Gábor Csomák, Jason Dryhurst-Smith, Ketan Gupta, and our fantastic host Michael Sullivan. The recording is now available, and it covers a lot of exciting topics on Internal Platforms (think your Cloud team) or External Platforms (think Amazon AWS): How do you drive the early stages of a platform team How do you keep technology evolution and customer focus central to the platform roadmap

Platform

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Podcast: How to drive the creation of a Platform
Podcast: How to drive the creation of a Platform
Platform

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May 23, 2022

Interview on Leadership using Montessori Principles

A few months ago, the incredible Emma Hopkinson-Spark interviewed me during one of the CTOCraft bytes events. The discussion was a 360 view on leadership and people, but the core part we really delve into where: employees motivation and why most companies are doing it wrong how autonomy needs to be balanced with the need to feel competent how leaders should mostly focus on the environment to grow their teams

Leadership

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Interview on Leadership using Montessori Principles
Interview on Leadership using Montessori Principles
Leadership

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Mar 30, 2022

Individual Contributor or Management track — How to help employees choose

The introduction of two separate enginering career ladders is helping engineers immensely across our industry choose the route they enjoy the most and, consequently, improves the quality of people that get promoted. Now that we have multiple options, how do we help senior engineers make a choice? …

Engineering Mangement

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Individual Contributor or Management track — How to help employees choose
Individual Contributor or Management track — How to help employees choose
Engineering Mangement

3 min read


Mar 6, 2022

Grow as a Leader with Montessori Principles: Part 3 — Intrinsic motivation

This is the third part of a 6-part series on using the Montessori Principles to guide you as a Leader. Today we will discuss how intrinsic motivation plays a central role in creating effective teams and retaining great employees. If your company struggles to keep their best talents, read on. What is Intrinsic Motivation …

Leadership

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Grow as a Leader with Montessori Principles: Part 3 — Intrinsic motivation
Grow as a Leader with Montessori Principles: Part 3 — Intrinsic motivation
Leadership

5 min read


Feb 4, 2022

Grow as a Leader with Montessori Principles: Part 2 — Independence

This is the second part of a 6-part series on using the Montessori Principles to guide you as a Leader. Today we will discuss how to balance coaching with your delivery goals effectively. …

Independence

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Grow as a Leader with Montessori Principles: Part 2 — Independence
Grow as a Leader with Montessori Principles: Part 2 — Independence
Independence

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Jan 14, 2022

Talk: Introducing Thinking in Bets in Product teams

A few days ago, I presented at the Agnostic Agile, a talk I worked on for a while on uncertainty in Product development. Although my focus has shifted back to Engineering Leadership, delivery is a crucial aspect of it. …

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Talk: Introducing Thinking in Bets in Product teams
Talk: Introducing Thinking in Bets in Product teams

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Jan 9, 2022

Why your API is not a Platform

In November, I co-presented a talk on Scaling Babylon’s Workflow platform. …

Digital Platforms

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Why your API is not a Platform
Why your API is not a Platform
Digital Platforms

4 min read


Jan 8, 2022

Talk: Scaling Babylon’s Workflow Platform

Recently at an event organised by Camunda, David Xiao and I have presented our experience moving from a delivery team to a platform team, the challenges and the benefits we perceived during the transition. This article was original published on simonecasciaroli.com David did an incredible job explaining how we technically…

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Talk: Scaling Babylon’s Workflow Platform
Talk: Scaling Babylon’s Workflow Platform

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Simone Casciaroli

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Head of Engineering at Onto, previously at Babylon, Guider and Now TV

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