Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and DevOps. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and DevOps teams. She spent over a decade at the Financial Times, leading as it transformed into a true cloud-native organisation, releasing code 250 times as often and embracing autonomous empowered teams. She is currently writing a book about Enabling Microservice Success for O’Reilly.
Building an effective technical strategy
Sarah Wells looks at the many things your team could do over the next year or two. How do you decide which of them to prioritize? Documenting your strategy is important, but it's only the first step. You need to communicate it effectively so that people can use it to make decisions. And finally, you need to track your progress: are you delivering what you need to? Is the strategy still the right one?
What DevOps teams need to know in 2023
How can we create a healthy DevOps culture that supports user retention?
Landing projects successfully
Getting projects across the finish line is a challenge, particularly for projects where you need other teams to do something - for example, to migrate to a new tool or a new version of an API. This talk will cover how to increase the likelihood that those teams will do what you need them to do, through a focus on clarity, communication, and empathy. It will cover some ideas for nudging behaviour too.
