Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Anjuan Simmons

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database.

Anjuan Simmons has led software development teams for over two decades, and he excels at shipping features that customers love while managing healthy teams. He presents at conferences, universities, and corporations globally on topics including leadership, software development practices, and inclusion. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

What is a staff engineering manager and how can you become one?

Staff engineering manager is a rewarding position that has you cultivating different types of relationships and projects.

Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships

In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.

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Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto

Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably weren’t handed a leadership instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead.

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Lending privilege as engineering leaders

Diversity and inclusion have become hot topics in technology, but you may not know how you can make a difference. This talk will help you understand that, no matter your background, you have privilege and can lend it to marginalized groups in tech.

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Leadership Through the Underground Railroad

Software development has regularly borrowed processes and terminology from outside technology to improve how code gets to customers.

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Managing the burnout burndown

As engineering managers, we're used to managing the Sprint Burndown chart. Even in non-agile projects, the idea still applies. Over time, the amount of work that remains to be done should go down, and good engineering managers carefully guide the team towards this goal.

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