Adrienne is an experienced engineering leader and director of distributed development and ops teams, and a keynote speaker beloved for her ability to inspire and motivate. She is an engineering leadership consultant and her customers include Lead Dev, O’Reilly Media, and Pluralsight. She has directing engineering and ops at an early-stage startup, a mature PaaS company, and most recently, led multiple teams in the Platform org at an ecommerce and point of sale company. Open-source and community work is important to Adrienne. She is a mentor and author of the Imposter Syndrome Disclaimer, a framework for open-source Contributing Guides which has been adopted by projects as diverse as Netflix’s Cloud Security Team, the BeeWare Project, and MetPy. She also served as Director of Advancement of the Django Software Foundation, the non-profit behind Django. Adrienne is an O’Reilly author of their newest engineering leadership course on the platform, and technical editor of Head First Python 2nd Edition. Adrienne is based in Music City: Nashville, Tennessee.
How enterprises can overcome the challenges of legacy code
How can enterprise engineering teams tackle the challenges of modernizing outdated codebases?
Managing compassionately through underperformance
You’ve identified that a person is underperforming. What comes next?
Managing compassionately through underperformance
You’ve identified that a person is underperforming. What comes next? Senior Engineering Manager Adrienne Lowe will identify what you should do to help manage someone out of underperformance
How 1:1s can affect your engineering team's culture
1:1s, or intentional time set aside for managers and their direct reports, are magical: they're where you learn what "sparks joy" for your staffer and where they're secretly flagging.
Evaluating 1:1s: clear signs they're going well or off the rails
Making the commitment to becoming the best manager you can be
What makes a good process?
In this talk, we’ll explain the how, what, and why of a good process and offer ways of thinking about defining and building processes. We’ll also discuss how to build in inclusion from the start.
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
Cracking the cadence of your software engineering 1:1s
One-to-ones provide perhaps your greatest opportunity to survey how well things are going with your team.
Effective career conversations with your engineers
Career conversations are a necessary part of your direct report’s growth, but without care, these meetings can lack purpose, meaning, and impact.
