E33 - Trust isn’t built by Process - Yuliia Pieskova

How Informal Connections Drive Success in Software Development and Testing

In this episode, I talk with Yuliia Pieskova about informal networks in software teams. We explore how spontaneous ties lift trust, speed, and quality in remote and hybrid setups. Formal charts set limits, people move work through friends. Yuliia shares stories from startups, hackathons, and product discovery where cross team groups watch users, swap ideas, then return with shared context. Remote work exposes old cracks yet levels locations and opens doors for new links.

"Anytime we get to some team, we get to some group of people...