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When the movie isn’t like the book: Failure modes in strategic alignment
If you’ve ever come to the humbling realization that you’re not exactly sure how your team fits into the overall company strategy, you’re not alone and you’re not a bad manager. In this talk, Maggie Litton unpacks why it’s sometimes hard to understand your company’s strategy and how your team fits into it.
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Running large scale migrations continuously
Suhail Patel goes over strategies and principles to make large scale migrations less daunting, both from a technical and organisational point of view.
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Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager
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Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
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How to navigate uncertainty as a senior individual contributor
What is the process for determining where your expertise and efforts would be most valuable?
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Unmasking Imposters by debugging doubts
Bobby D takes inspiration from the popular game "Among Us" to address the challenges engineers face in understanding their value and the importance of developing team awareness to support one another, and shares practical strategies for embracing individual strengths, fostering team collaboration, and building bridges through empathy and inclusivity.
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How to gain the right visibility across your teams as a busy manager
Having the right visibility into your teams is critical to being a supportive leader
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Working on software that is older than you
Sally Wahba shares her views on working on an older codebase. She will share her experience watching the codebase evolve from incorporating acquired startups, to consolidating code branches. She will share pain points that she found to be repeated after joining a younger company.
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Why full SDLC testing matter in your software development lifecycle
Quality and velocity” is no longer an “either-or” statement. To accommodate the demands for speed and quality, many companies today are trying to test every change using different tools throughout the software lifecycle, but the tools are isolated and don’t inform each other of a holistic strategy for quality. Thus, testing becomes a bottleneck, and it can result in fewer releases with no improvement to the customer experience. Join Sangit Patel to learn how a holistic approach can help address these market challenges.
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Team design is system design
In this presentation, Michael Newman, VP of Engineering at CodeSignal will explore Conway's Law and how the Inverse Conway Maneuver can be used to design your organization's communication structure to reflect the desired system structure.