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Recording of Greg Wilson's first live appearance of 2016, at The Nest in Dalston, London 05.02.16.

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THE NEST LONDON 05.02.16 (greg wilson live mix)

Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo sits down with Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers to discuss the art and science of managing technical teams. Wade shares personal insight into his development as a leader, and shares frameworks for structuring productive meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing for a high functioning organization.

Increasing Your Team's Capacity To Win with Dan Portillo and Wade Chambers | Greymatter

Following their podcast on managing technical teams, Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo and Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers pair up for another podcast on recruiting and interviewing engineers. Wade outlines the processes he’s developed through years of management and building out teams at Yahoo, Proofpoint, TellApart and now Twitter.

The Art of Interviewing 10x Engineers with Dan Portillo and Wade Chambers | Greymatter

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2016 conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to five of the leading minds of Agile Management: Steve Denning, Ray Arell, Todd Little, Hendrik Esser and Steve Holyer.

They explore the question “Is agile still agile?”, look at the challenges around agile development and product management, and what is needed for large scale agile transformation.

Why listen to this podcast:

 - Agile is a mindset, not a set of processes or practices
 - The risks and dangers of packaged implementation of “agile” using process checkboxes without understanding why
 - Agile adoption is hard – simple but not easy
 - When agile practices are adopted for the wrong reasons it causes stress levels to go up and drives unsustainable behavioursIt’s not “twice the work in half the time”; it should be about twice the value with half the work
 - The Scrum role of Product Owner is broken
 - Product management is the hardest part of product development, irrespective of the development approachIn a complex world your only chance for survival is learning

Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2g2hWuR

4m:15s - Some teams can benefit from checkbox, packaged implementations of agility as a starting point but they must be able to evolve.

4m:30s - Agility is a journey – you need to be agile in mindset, based around continuous improvement.

4m:40s - The most agile teams are the ones who continually inspect and adapt their practices to work most effectively for their context.

5m:00s - Checkbox teams who follow every one of the practices without knowing why are unable to improve and are not effective.

5m:15s - It’s about understanding and getting to the heart of why – for your process and for your product.

5m:30s - The checkbox process is easy for companies to measure and doing so drives bad behaviour.

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Exploring if Agile is Still Agile

Demand for designers is higher than ever. Great products — the outcome of thoughtful design — are a result of stellar user experience. As design becomes a higher priority for startups, we are seeing a fundamental shift in how designers work. In this episode of Greymatter, John Lilly of Greylock catches up with Figma CEO and co-founder Dylan Field to talk about how he got started as a entrepreneur, the Figma product, and the shift they’re seeing in the design space.

Figma CEO Dylan Field on Collaboration and Design in the Workplace | Greymatter

We talk about growth all the time in the context of startups. How they grow, how they attract users, how they engage users. In this episode of Greymatter, two of the top minds in growth, Greylock Partner Josh Elman and Greylock Growth Advisor Casey Winters, talk about scaling Grubhub and Pinterest, starting growth teams, how to think about SEO, and optimizing user onboarding. The podcast is packed with full-stack growth marketing strategy and tactics Casey has implemented in his career, and these lessons are widely applicable to any consumer startup scaling up.

Scaling Users, Products, and Growth Teams with Casey Winters | Greymatter

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Patrick Kua from ThoughtWorks on growing technical leadership and evolutionary architecture

Why listen to this podcast:

 - There is a significant gap in technical leadership capability in teams and across the industry as a whole
 - Your experience as a developer doesn’t prepare you for a tech lead roleRecognize that the skills and responsibilities are very different and find ways to build the new skills – training, mentoring and support
 - Software will continue to be changed so it is important to build it for changeability from the beginning
 - Many of the big decisions which are made at the beginning of a product’s life will change over time, build the ability to change into the core architectural design

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Patrick Kua on Growing Technical Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Josh Evans, former engineering manager at Netflix on how Netflix does DevOps and the freedom and responsibility culture that undermines their way of working. 

Why listen to this podcast:

•	There are many interpretations of the term DevOps, it is a useful shorthand for a wide variety of technologies and approaches 
•	“You build it, you run it” is the concrete application of the freedom and responsibility culture
•	When building a platform tool make it so easy to use that the product teams are not tempted to try and build something for themselves
•	Product teams are free to experiment and learn, which can feel chaotic and is a valuable part of the freedom and responsibility culture
•	The value of blameless and safe incident reviews – the goal is to learn and find patterns and use that information to present whole classes of failure from happening in the future
•	Don’t view the value stream in a fragmented way – see the whole end to end system with all its interactions and dependencies and optimize the system as a cohesive whole rather than different tools and domains

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Josh Evans on DevOps at Netflix

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast recorded at Agile 2017, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Heidi Helfand about Dynamic Reteaming

Why listen to this podcast:

•	Team change is real – we might as well get good at it
•	People come and go from teams all the time for many different reasons
•	A missing level in Tuckman’s model of team formation – Stagnating, when you keep a team together for too long   
•	There are techniques to build social bonds beyond the single team level to prevent constant forming/storming when team composition changes
•	The rate of reteaming is a business decision based on the context and needs of the organisation at the time

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Heidi Helfand On Dynamic Reteaming

GREG WILSON presents The Chic Organization – 1977-79 Selection Reworked
 
Greg writes about the mix and all things Chic at his blog:
http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2018/06/the-chic-organization-1977-79-selection-reworked/
 
Chic had a sound of all their own, the crack rhythm section of Nile Rodgers (guitar), Bernard Edwards (bass) and drummer Tony Thompson providing the highly infectious grooves that characterised their records. They would be massively influential as a consequence, their anthemic tracks still loved all these years later, with a new younger generation embracing their good time vibe in the same way their parents might have.
 
The mix consists of 12 edits / reworks of 9 Rogers & Edwards produced tracks, all of which happened to be originally recorded during 1977-79, the years which saw Disco peak and decline, with Chic at the helm during those halcyon days, their own recordings providing 4 US top 10 singles, including a pair of #1s, whilst Sister Sledge, whose success they mentored, weighed in via the hit-laden ‘We Are Family’ LP. They even found time for a French excursion via Sheila & B Devotion’s ‘Spacer’.

SISTER SLEDGE ‘THINKING OF YOU’
1.‘Things You Do For Me’ - Killer Funk Disco Allstars Edit
2.Sister S ’Living Ecstasy’ – Norington Remix
CHIC ‘CHIC CHEER’
3.Leroc Sportif Edit
SISTER SLEDGE ‘HE’S THE GREATEST DANCER’
4.’Greatest Dancer’ – Daz Digs Disco Re-Edit
5.’One Nite In A Disco’ – Late Nite Tuff Guy Rework / Greg Wilson Edit
CHIC ‘I WANT YOUR LOVE’
6.Todd Terje Edit (incorporates Moodyman ‘I Can’t Kick This Feeling When It Hits)
CHIC ‘STRIKE UP THE BAND’
7.’Feel The Rhythm’ – Deep & Disco Edit
CHIC ‘LE FREAK’
8.Chewy Rubs ‘Future Freak’
SISTER SLEDGE ‘LOST IN MUSIC’
9.DSD Balearic Mix
CHIC ‘DANCE, DANCE, DANCE (YOWSAH, YOWSAH, YOWSAH)’
10.Greg Wilson Rework
11.In Flagranti ‘A Brag Mount’
SHEILA & B. DEVOTION ‘SPACER’
12.Greg Wilson Edit
 
Addition overdubs / editing by Greg Wilson
Recorded June 2018
 
Greg Wilson is set to support Chic in Manchester, Wed 27th June at Castlefied Bowl, alongside a live performance from Crazy P.
 
http://gregwilson.co.uk

GOURANGA MIXTAPE: Greg Wilson - The Chic Organization - 1977-79 Selection Reworked

Introducing The Kiwi Sound: mixed by @Conducta
Showcasing the very best in new UK Garage
Out now on CD & digital platforms: http://kiwi.ffm.to/sound

TRACKLIST
1 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove
2 Sammy Virji - Find My Way Home
3 Conducta - Steezing (feat. Coco & J'Danna)
4 Yemi - Back To You
5 Sammy Virji - Oh Will
6 Mind Of A Dragon - Wheel Up (VIP)
7 Y U QT - U BELONG 2 ME
8 Prescribe Da Vibe - Cool Today
9 Wiley, Sean Paul, Stefflon Don - Boasty (feat. Idris Elba) [Conducta Remix]
10 TC4 - Caracas
11 Kamakaze & Massappeals - Last Night (feat. Morgan Munroe)
12 Bushbaby - Woman's Touch
13 Conducta & Sammy Virji - Alone
14 Sharda - Peace & Love
15 Conducta & Jarreau Vandal - I Like It
16 Movement & Reece West - More Than A Lot
17 Kobe JT - Somewhere Underground
18 Conducta & Sammy Virji - Whippet (Sweetie Irie Dub)
19 Higgo - Chillin
20 MPH & Hans Glader - The Birds
21 Prescribe Da Vibe - Clearer Now
22 Smasher - Rolling
23 Kitson - Kitchen Riddim
24 Jaykae - Chat (feat. Local)
25 Sammy Virji & Yemi - Somebody Else
26 Hamdi - Trumpet
27 Mind Of A Dragon - Caught Up
28 MPH & Harry Tremlett - Wompa
29 Salute - Feel The Same
30 Sharda - Exhaust
31 Tuff Culture - Fancy Car
32 Skelecta - When You
33 Morenight - TT
34 Y U QT - I Feel It
35 SMOAD - Beggin Me
36 Kara Marni x Champion - All Night, Pt. 1
37 The Phat Controlla - Bubblegumbud
38 Jorja Smith x Preditah - On My Mind (Conducta Remix)

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THE KIWI SOUND (mixed by Conducta)

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