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Learning from failure: How to adapt your leadership style to lead effectively through uncertainty

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Learn how to adapt your leadership style, embrace failure, and build trust to lead teams confidently through uncertainty and change.

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Learning from failure: How to adapt your leadership style to lead effectively through uncertainty

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Learning from failure can provide you with impactful outcomes. It enables your teams to experiment, iterate quickly, and deliver business impact. But it’s hard enough to create “good” conditions for experimentation in tolerant market conditions, let alone in today’s turbulent tech landscape, where people are burned out, risk-averse, and operating from a place of fear and uncertainty.

As technical leaders, it’s crucial to understand that different market environments require different leadership styles to help teams build trust and deliver business value.

This workshop will cover how to lead through uncertainty and how to build a culture where failure is accepted – even when times are tough. We’ll talk about examples of failure, the insights gained from them, and learn how to reinforce psychological safety as a leader to foster trust and confidence among team members.

What will you learn?

  • How to adapt your leadership toolkit to market change
  • Tactics to build comfort with failure even when teams face fear and uncertainty
  • Strategies to rebuild trust without becoming a distraction or long-term dependency
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    Rob Zuber
    CTOCircleCI

    Rob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a three-time founder, and a five-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series F funding and delivered on product innovation at scale while leading a team of 150+ engineers distributed worldwide.

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How to deal with the “technical” in “technical leadership”

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How technical do technical leaders have to be? Are you worried that you’re too hands-on, or not hands-on enough? Are you exhausting yourself trying to keep up with every technical detail in your domain? This workshop will help you to overcome your worries and figure out the best attitude and approach for you and your circumstances.

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How to deal with the “technical” in “technical leadership”

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With Clare Sudbery

How technical do technical leaders have to be? Are you worried that you’re too hands-on, or not hands-on enough? Are you exhausting yourself trying to keep up with every technical detail in your domain?

Sometimes individual contributors are promoted to leadership positions and worry that they won’t be as hands-on as they used to be. Sometimes they worry that they no longer have time to stay up to date with modern technology and/or the state of their team’s code base(s). Sometimes it’s the other way around: Somebody who has never been hands-on in the technical realm is given a leadership position, and worries they’re “not technical enough”.

Whatever your position, this workshop will help you overcome your worries and figure out the best attitude and approach for you and your circumstances. 

Takeaways: 

  • How to embrace the difference between individual contributor and technical leader
  • How to take a step back from “knowing all the things”
  • How to make the most of the knowledge and experience of your team
  • How to identify when technical knowledge matters and when it doesn’t
  • How to learn the things you need to know
  • FEATURING
    Clare Sudbery
    Independent Technical CoachSudbery Software Engineering Ltd

    Clare Sudbery is an independent technical coach with 25+ years of software engineering experience. She specialises in TDD, refactoring, pair programming, continuous integration and other eXtreme Programming (XP) practices.

    Clare taught the Coding Black Females’ Return to Tech programme and co-ran Made Tech’s academy – coaching inexperienced engineers to learn on the job. She has a passion for helping under-represented groups to flourish in tech.

    Clare hosted Season One of the acclaimed Making Tech Better podcast and publishes content on Medium (“A Woman in Technology”) and her own site (“In Simple Terms”). She is the author of the Stupidity Manifesto, has written about trunk-based development and refactoring for O’Reilly and for Martin Fowler’s site, and regularly presents workshops and keynotes at events all over the world.

    Subscribe to Clare’s newsletter: https://queen-of-questions.kit.com/

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The engineering leader’s playbook: A hands-on guide to DORA

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This workshop dives deep into DORA, showing you exactly how to apply data-driven insights in your real-world environment to identify bottlenecks, measure progress, and drive continuous improvement. From selecting key performance indicators to fostering a culture of learning, you’ll walk away with actionable strategies to boost your team’s velocity, reduce time to market, and achieve your goals.

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The engineering leader’s playbook: A hands-on guide to DORA

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As engineering leaders, your success is the success of your teams. While success can take many forms, a key indicator is how effectively and quickly your team can deliver on its goals and ship software.

But with so many variables that contribute to how successful a team is – how can you work out what to change to move the needle? And what should you be measuring in the first place?

Ready to go beyond theory and get practical? This workshop dives deep into DORA, showing you exactly how to apply data-driven insights in your real-world environment to identify bottlenecks, measure progress, and drive continuous improvement. From selecting key performance indicators to fostering a culture of learning, you’ll walk away with actionable strategies to boost your team’s velocity, reduce time to market, and achieve your goals.

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    Giovanni Galloro
    Application Modernization Solution LeadGoogle

    Giovanni Galloro has been working at Google since 2017 as a Customer Engineer specialising in software delivery tools and practices and container-based runtimes.

    Currently focused on helping multiple organizations across EMEA to improve developer productivity and software delivery performance using AI and Continuous Delivery.

    Giovanni is a Community Ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences.

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  • Finn Toner
    Transformation ConsultantGoogle

    Work: Finn leads the EMEA Transformation Practice within Google Cloud Consulting. His team works with Google Cloud’s largest customers to kickstart their cloud transformation and optimise their operating model. He’s also a contributor to the DORA State of DevOps research program.

    Play: Keen, if inconsistent, golfer. Advocate for better mental health at work.

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