Engineering Joy

Engineering Joy

Darryn Downey and Rob Meaney's quest to figure out how to create a joyful workplace.

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June 5, 2025 67 mins

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This month, our two hosts speak to the brilliant João Rosa.

João has extensive experience in technology, having worked in nearly every role. He is currently a consultant helping companies change their ways of working and, more importantly, ways of thinking.

We had great craic chatting to him, and we hope you enjoy listening in.

Thanks, as always, for listening.

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This month our two hosts speak to the fantastic Stewart Keegan.
Stew has had years of experience working in all things product. 


Currently, he leads a team of Product Managers. We discuss his highs and lows and what has kept him in the industry.

Thanks as always for listening.

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February 27, 2025 53 mins

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This month our hosts interview the wonderful Jo Ward.

Jo has years of experience as a people manager and a program manager.


We get into what makes people good managers, and what companies should do to enable good people leaders. 

As always thanks loads for listening in.

Link to the Ted talk mentioned in our chat:
https://www.ted.com/talks/rosita_najmi_what_s_your_leadership_language

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January 30, 2025 71 mins

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This month our two hosts interview the fantastic Michelle McDaid

Michelle is an experienced technology leader and founder of the leading place.

We discuss her experiences as a leader working for different companies over the years and discuss what makes a good team and a great company culture.

You can reach her here:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-leading-place/
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August 29, 2024 73 mins

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This month our two hosts interview the fantastic Sinead Walsh

Sinead has had several jobs over the years and currently works in digital marketing. Sinead is also a brilliant standup comic, and the host of an amazing podcast called "Queer As Fluich" which everyone should listen to.

We delve into how first jobs and bad experiences can affect you long term, but also how good relationships and ...

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July 25, 2024 83 mins

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This month our two hosts interview the amazing Claudio. 

Claudio is a change agent who loves all things lean and agile. 
He has both worked for and run his own companies in the past, thus making him a great source of information on engineering joy. He is also the inventor of popcorn flow which if you have not heard of it, go look it up and use it. 

We talk about all things from agile to how to in...

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June 27, 2024 73 mins

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This month our hosts interview the fantastic Roisin Rooney.

Roisin works in people operations with a background in our favorite department, human resources. 
We have a fantastic chat starting off talking about our parents, and then quickly jumping into work-based horrors and craic. 
Roisin gives her experiences working in HR and shows how an empathic and caring touch can be the difference between an H...

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May 30, 2024 68 mins

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This month our two quite giddy hosts interview the wonderful Paddy Lynn.

Paddy is a tech recruiter with over ten years of experience. Paddy was also heavily involved in the Irish testing and agile tech scene helping run meetups and even the odd conference. Paddy gives us a deep dive into the recruiting world and explains how relationship-building is the key to success. 

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April 25, 2024 67 mins

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Our hosts continue their conversations to understand workplace joy.

This month we are delighted to have the wonderful José Díaz. José not only runs his own very successful company but is the creator of the amazing Agile Testing Days conference. We both adore the conference and have been heavily inspired by it. 
We dive straight into how José has managed to create such a joyful place to grow and learn and ...

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March 28, 2024 73 mins

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Our hapless hosts continue their search to discover joy in the workplace. 
This month they are joined by the amazing Sarah Hughes. Sarah has a background in psychology and has worked in various industries NONE of which are tech.
We dive into how teams in general tend to work and we see how human behaviours tend not to change no matter what industry we work in.

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February 29, 2024 64 mins

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We continue our conversations in our ever-going quest to find the meaning of workplace joy. This month we interview the fantastic Heather Reid. Heather has many years (ten or less if you ask her) experience working in various software roles. She takes us through her highs and lows (including some fairly crazy points), and gives us a lens of workplace fun and even what it means to create a psychologically safe environm...

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January 25, 2024 59 mins

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In which our two hosts talk about all things joyful with the most joyful of all Finns, our good friend Henri Terho. 
Henri has many years of experience working in various companies from big to small start-ups. He takes us through the highs and lows of both, and gives us some good tips to create a healthy fun workspace. 

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November 30, 2023 54 mins

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Our two hosts continue their quest to find out what joy means in the workplace and how to create it. This month we interviewed Colin Graham. Colin has many years of experience working in various engineering roles. He takes us through engineering joy from possibly a more technical lens. 

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October 26, 2023 41 mins

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Our two mildly confused and possibly sarcastic hosts interview Fernando about his experiences working for various start-ups. The good, the bad, and what he has learnt that makes him a better leader. 

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September 22, 2023 35 mins

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Our two bumbling hosts talk about the best and worst places they worked, and what made the best the best. They also introduce the concept of Engineering joy and try to come up with ideas for how to create it in the workplace. 

Note: The initial podcast was recorded in a pub in Dublin. We would like to apologise for the shite audio quality. (Darryn blames Rob, and Rob blames Dublin)

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