James is a Staff Engineer at Compare the Market. Back in school he said he wanted to do “something with art and computers” and that’s translated into a career making websites, and ensuring that they look pretty, are usable and accessible. As a Staff Engineer he works to ensure that the output of multiple teams is of the highest quality and efficiency.
Doing “the most important thing” is a trap.
This talk is little about why you need to say No to people more, and how things can go wrong when you don’t learn to do it enough.
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Scaling your influence through documentation
James Ford reflects on his two year journey as a Staff Engineer and how a mix of documentation and working groups has been a surprisingly effective strategy for influencing the opinions of the individual engineers as well as the non-technical stakeholders.
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