Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Michael Lopp is a veteran Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and product at historic companies such as Slack, Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple. When he’s not deeply worrying about staying relevant, he writes about backpacks, bridges, humans, and leadership at the popular weblog, Rands in Repose. He currently works at Apple. This is the way.

Managing Humans: Michael Lopp in conversation

Lessons on leading and managing engineers.

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Leadership. By the numbers.

A series of simple numbers can represent a useful and memorable corpus of hard-earned leadership experience. This talk will succinctly explain essential leadership lessons that you can either heed or simply wait to experience.

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Avoiding common mistakes as a new engineering manager

In this talk we'll walk through a hypothetical worst case scenario for a new manager and then walk through specifics on how you can avoid the Spiral.

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