Growth

Growth

The Internet gives us cat memes and conspiracy theories. But who gives us the Internet? Join us every week as we talk to the people responsible for building, supporting, and shaping the Internet service that you and I experience every day of our lives.

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September 6, 2022 46 mins

What goes into a good product?

Today we deep dive into the world of Sandra Pereira, Product Owner of Voice at Voyager. We discuss the many hats of the Product Owner role, the differences between the various flavors of Product Ownership, versus Product Management, and also the challenges she faces everyday.

This is our very last episode of the Growth podcast, and we are excited to be bringing this to you for the la...

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Phone numbers have remained virtually unchanged: they’re a series of numbers that represent a person’s location within the fabric of the phone network. In other words, when somebody dials your number, your phone magically rings!

It may sound easy, but there is A LOT of work that happens behind the scenes. It involves a process called Number Porting.

Today I am joined by Fred Wadia, he is a Number Porting Specialis...

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Deep dive today with Nathan Kennedy and Logan Jessop. These fine dudes are Scrum Masters at Voyager and, to quote the Scrum guide, they are accountable for the scrum team’s effectiveness.

They walk the walk, everyday.. or rather, on a fortnightly schedule. We’ll plunge head first into the details and hear all about the inner workings of their 2 weekly sprint cycles, managing multiple teams, and how they ended up becoming S...

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February 17, 2022 41 mins

Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, and we decided to bring you a series of interviews with the people behind Voyager’s own Agile journey.

This episode I speak with Daniel Stastny. Daniel is an Agile coach with years of experience in both Agile as well as traditional project management.

We discuss all things Agile, its values, the benefit for companies to embrace it for themselves, and we even talk about the...

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January 13, 2022 28 mins

Meet Siggy. She is a Software Engineer at Voyager, working in the Voice Tribe. Siggy has the uncanny ability to see the logic in almost everything. Not just lines of code, but real tangible things, like coffee machines and even drones. She is able to pull something apart, figure out what it does, and put it all together in a way that is practical for someone to use.

Despite being buried under machinery parts or lines of co...

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January 6, 2022 34 mins

There is one role that often gets overlooked in an Agile organization… I’m referring of course, to the C.E.O. Granted, they may not be able to give you a detailed breakdown of how Scrum works, but they must always have that customer first mindset, that vision of tomorrow, and that insatiable drive for growth. Today I speak with Alf Wallis, CEO of Voyager. We discuss the origins of Voyager’s Agile journey, where the company is today...

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December 30, 2021 35 mins

Our guest this week has been walking the walk for the past 20 years in Technology and he has seen his fair share of successes and challenges. Over time, Tim and his wife Jaime have helped teams to adopt modern practices like Agile, Lean, Scrum, and DevOps. Today we speak with Tim to discuss Agile coaching, consulting, experimentation at Pixar, working in India…. and a crazy weekend 20 years ago involving dial up internet and lots o...

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December 23, 2021 34 mins

This week we speak with the talented Megan Harrison. We discuss her own journey in Marketing, one that has taken her from New York to New Zealand. Megan shares her insights into the industry, what makes for engaging content, the future of social media and Gen Z, plus an incredible breakdown of the best French Fries on earth.

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December 7, 2021 1 min

Take a trip with me, Christian Espinoza, as I interview the people that help to bring you the internet. Season 1 explores what it means to be 'Agile', and how an internet company called Voyager went through its own Agile transformation. You'll hear from Product Owners, Execs, Marketing, and more as they talk candidly with me about why they do what they do. 

First episode airs December 16th, wherever you get ...

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