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title: "Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams"
description: Check out what Pythian Team Managers Shara French, Miriam Varvazovsky learned about managing high-performance IT teams in a male-led industry
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# [Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams](https://www.pythian.com/blog/datascape-episode-53-managing-high-performance-it-teams)

 Written by [Warner Chaves](https://www.pythian.com/blog/author/warner-chaves) | Jan 26, 2022 5:00:00 AM

## **Episode 53 Shownotes**

Welcome to another episode of *Datascape Podcast*. In today’s show, guests Shara French, Microsoft Data Platform Team Manager, and  Miriam Varvazovsky, Team Manager, discuss managing high-performance IT teams.

Shara and Miriam introduce themselves, their work in technology and their journeys to [Pythian](https://pythian.com/). Together, the hosts take on topics such as basic requirements for technical management, setting boundaries, establishing trust, hiring practices, working from home, the gender gap and working in male-dominant fields and personality types, to name a few.

 Tune in to find out about these topics and learn more.

 

[Datascape Podcast](https://soundcloud.com/datascapepodcast) · [Episode 53 – Managing High Performance IT Teams](https://soundcloud.com/datascapepodcast/episode-53-managing-high-performance-it-teams)

 

## **Key Points From this Episode**

- Introduction of today’s topic: managing high-performance IT teams.
- Warner introduces Shara and Miriam.
- Shara summarizes her experience and path to Pythian.
- Shara shares her managerial style.
- Miriam summarizes some of her path into management.
- Miriam talks about the importance of understanding databases.
- Shara touches on the importance of having an LDC.
- The hosts discuss the importance of communication skills and daily expectations.
- Miriam talks about empowering technical teams and managing different team members.
- Miriam talks about micromanaging and work-life balance.
- Shara describes her management style.
- Miriam and Shara discuss their hiring practices.
- The hosts discuss the impact of multiculturalism on Pythian.
- The hosts touch on long technology careers, the gender gap and the challenge of being female managers.
- Miriam highlights specific scenarios as a female manager in a male-dominant field.
- The hosts discuss personality types.
- The hosts discuss navigating changes in technology.

## **Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode**

- [Warner Chaves on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnerchaves/?originalSubdomain=ca)
- [Warner Chaves on Twitter](https://twitter.com/warchav)
- [Oracle](https://www.oracle.com/ca-en/index.html)
- [MySQL](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/sql-server/sql-server-2019)
- [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org/)

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