Spencer Norman
Spencer is CTO at Privy, an ecommerce marketing platform for pairing email, SMS, and list-growth tools with personalized coaching delivered by real people. Prior to his role at Privy, he led the Commerce engineering team at at Mailchimp (acquired by Intuit). When not working, you can find Spencer riding bikes, skiing, and playing in the mountains.
Reducing the burden of incident response on your teams
Unlock system reliability through a culture of shared responsibility and collaboration
Critical components of successful delegation
This talk presents techniques to help you be prepared to delegate, sponsor, and coach your team in a way that empowers them to grow their careers and makes your load manageable.
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.
Crafting effective 1:1s for distributed engineering teams
Creating relationships with the individual humans on your distributed team is difficult since you rarely get to see them in person! But a team is much less likely to be effective and successful without a foundation of interpersonal relationships and trust.
