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Managing in hard times: How to shift from growth to stability
David LaMothe covers some of the key actions a manager should take to make sure their team gets through difficult times. Whether it’s managing expectations, focusing on the essentials, or celebrating small successes, you will leave with the essential toolbox you need to weather the storm.
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Making work (and life) less stressful by making better decisions
Nicky Thompson's talk is aimed at engineers, tech leads, managers, humans - anyone who makes decisions. Making better decisions is a skill that you can improve on, and this talk will introduce some ways to do that.
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Take back control of code quality
In this talk, Joel Chippindale shares stories from his experiences in leading engineering teams that illustrate the dynamics between team members and with stakeholders that lead teams to lose control of code quality.
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Building bridges beyond the screen: Cracking the code of remote team-building
In this talk, Marina Planells Guasch will share her experiences and provide resources that have worked for her, as well as discuss the failures and difficulties she encountered while attempting to foster team spirit in a remote environment.
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Skills that empower engineers to drive business impact
Lydia Seidlitz focuses on skills for engineers to master in order to foster a business and product mind set.
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Practical tech-debt prioritization
Sahana Carlsen explores practical steps to influence stakeholders, be realistic about resourcing, and involve the entire team in making critical decisions on quality projects and technical debt.
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Native to flutter: A tale of Tide’s transformation
Anna Leushchenko and Giorgos Ampavis are here to share their transformation journey: how they upskilled their native mobile engineers to Dart and Flutter, migrated their codebase to the new tech stack, and rolled out the new product to their users, ensuring the best possible transition. They will highlight the challenges they faced, the solutions they implemented, and the objectives they have achieved for their business and engineering team.
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Goldilocks doesn’t need your story points or your t-shirts
Ben Murray believes there is only really one question you need to ask: is this task small enough?
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Pragmatic data organization leadership
In this talk, Olalekan Elesin looks at how a data team was led through a difficult reorganization to deliver company-wide impact and customer value.
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Building teams in tumultuous times. Lessons learned after multiple layoffs
Chris Jimenez covers topics of providing clarity to yourself and finding energy and motivation to rebuild as a leader, providing clarity to your teammates and different ways of offering support, organization re-structure with the intent of bringing people together with a clear scope, and tips and tricks on rebuilding the culture and team cohesion.