A Spanner in the Works

Justin Hennessy - CTO at Neto Global, Maropost & Outfit.io

July 17, 2021 Andreas Spanner Season 1 Episode 19
A Spanner in the Works
Justin Hennessy - CTO at Neto Global, Maropost & Outfit.io
Show Notes

Justin shares great insights about his journey from low confidence to achieving his goal he set for himself - to become a CTO.

And as a CTO Justin shares great insights on a variety of topics from how to build and run a SaaS product, balancing buisness realities with technical excellence, why future proofing is a bad idea in the first then minutes alone. Then we discuss SRE, how to evolve and organisations DevOps capability maturity, metrics, leadership VS Leadership and why you don't  need deadlines.

  • How to build & run a SaaS product
  • How to balance technical excellence with business realities 
  • Why future proofing is bad idea [- 10:00}
  • The importance of blurring the lines of development and infrastructure [14:00] 
  • How to get started with DevOps & evolve the maturity [16:00] and how it becomes a ‘whole of business philosophy' 
  • How Leadership, Trust and Empowerment are connected [19:00] 
  • Why you have to hand a business problem over to the technical teams instead of solutions [24:00] 
  • Metrics [25] 
  • Why you don’t need deadlines [27] 
  • Team Topologies [32] 
  • The importance of genuine, humble & servant leadership [32:30]