Building the operating system of a healthy and responsible tech business

This talk is little about why you need to say No to people more, and how things can go wrong when you don’t learn to do it enough. 

One of the toughest challenges you face as an engineering leader is staying current while preparing yourself and your teams for change.

In this talk, we will detail our experiences as Staff Engineers functioning as Tech Leads, Glues and Facilitators in a leaderless role. We’ll discuss the real-world problems we faced, our solutions, and the lessons learned that allowed us to grow as leaders and as an organisation.

In this talk Michael will talk through lessons and tips he's learnt when working on a project that pushed him outside of his comfort zone, and how you can effectively utilise the skills and knowledge of those around you to build alignment when leading across a broad set of teams who are often using very different technologies.