S2E35: "Embed Ethics into Your SDLC: From Reactive Firefighting to 'Responsible Firekeeping'" with Mathew Mytka & Alja Isaković (Tethix)

The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

This week’s guests are Mathew Mytka and Alja Isakovoić, Co-Founders of Tethix, a company that builds products that embed ethics into the fabric of your organization. We discuss Matt and Alja’s core mission to bring ethical tech to the world, and Tethix’s services that work with your Agile development processes. You’ll learn about Tethix’s solution to address 'The Intent to Action Gap,' and what Elemental Ethics can provide organizations beyond other ethics frameworks. We discuss ways to become a proactive Responsible Firekeeper, rather than remaining a reactive Firefighter, and how ETHOS, Tethix's suite of apps can help organizations embody and embed ethics into everyday practice.

TOPICS COVERED:

• What inspired Mat & Alja to co-found Tethix and the company's core mission
• What the 'Intent to Action Gap' is and how Tethix address it
• Overview of Tethix's Elemental Ethics framework; and how it empowers product development teams to 'close the 'Intent to Action Gap' and move orgs from a state of 'Agile Firefighting' to 'Responsible Firekeeping'
• Why Agile is an insufficient process for embedding ethics into software and product development; and how you can turn to Elemental Ethics and Responsible Firekeeping to embed 'Ethics-by-Design' into your Agile workflows
• The definition of 'Responsible Firekeeping' and its benefits; and how Ethical Firekeeping transitions Agile teams from a reactive posture to a proactive one
• Why you should choose Elemental Ethics over conventional ethics frameworks
• Tethix's suite of apps called ETHOS: The Ethical Tension and Health Operating System apps, which help teams embed ethics into their collaboration tech stack (e.g., JIRA, Slack, Figma, Zoom, etc.)
• How you can become a Responsible Firekeeper
• The level of effort required to implement Elemental Ethics & Responsible Firekeeping into Product Development based on org size and level of maturity
• Alja's contribution to the ResponsibleTech.Work, an open source Responsible Product Development Framework, core elements of the Framework, and why we need it
• Where to learn more about Responsible Firekeeping

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Read: "Day in the Life of a Responsible Firekeeper"
• Review the ResponsibleTech.Work Framework
• Subscribe to the Pathfinders Newmoonsletter

GUEST INFO:

• Connect with Mat on LinkedIn
• Connect with Alja on LinkedIn
• Check out Tethix’s Website

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Chapters

1. S2E35: "Embed Ethics into Your SDLC: From Reactive Firefighting to 'Responsible Firekeeping'" with Mathew Mytka & Alja Isaković (Tethix) (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Mathew Mytka, Co-Founder of Tethix (00:01:41)

3. Introducing Alja Isaković, Co-Founder of Tethix and Principal Contributor to the ResponsibleTech.Work Framework (00:02:32)

4. What inspired Mat & Alja to co-found Tethix and the company's core mission (00:03:36)

5. What the 'Intent to Action Gap' is and how Tethix address it (00:04:39)

6. Alja explains The Elemental Ethics framework; how it empowers product development teams to 'close the 'Intent to Action Gap' and move orgs from a state of 'Agile Firefighting' to 'Responsible Firekeeping' (00:07:18)

7. Mat shares why Agile is an insufficient process for embedding ethics into software and product development; and how you can turn to Elemental Ethics and Responsible Firekeeping to embed ethics-by-design into your Agile workflows. (00:10:39)

8. Mat defines 'Responsible Firekeeping,' the benefits realized for using this approach, and how Ethical Firekeeping transitions Agile teams from being reactive to more proactive when it comes to privacy and ethics (00:13:12)

9. Alja shares why organizations should consider choosing Elemental Ethics over conventional ethics frameworks (00:17:49)

10. Alja tells us about Tethix's suite of apps called ETHOS: The Ethical Tension and Health Operating System apps, which help teams embed ethics into their collaboration tech stack (JIRA, Slack, Figma, Zoom, etc.) (00:20:36)

11. Mat explains the path to becoming a Responsible Firekeeper and urges us to read Alja's blog post on the subject (00:23:56)

12. Mat & Alja discuss the level of effort required to implement Elemental Ethics & Responsible Firekeeping into Product Development based on organizations size and level of maturity (00:32:36)

13. Alja shares info about ResponsibleTech.Work, an open source Responsible Product Development Framework, its core elements, and why we need such a framework (00:36:32)

14. Alja & Mat share resources including: Tethix's Pathfinder Newmoonsletter, their website, their Substack publication, workshops, and Virtual Tea Garden; and they leave us with some words of wisdom (00:40:40)