Meri
Williams
CTO and Advisor
Pleo
A day of sessions on: your Business, your Delivery, your Strategy and your People.
08:30
1h
WELCOME
Registration and refreshments
Welcome to LeadingEng London 2024
09:05
Welcome to LeadingEng London 2024
A welcome to LeadingEng London from our host Meri Williams.
Featuring:
09:20
20 min
What's my job again? Developing self-management
The more we move up the org chart, the less input we'll get from our own managers, and the more we need to expand our range as a leader to be successful. Self-management is understanding what it means for you to thrive in a leadership role, and it's also something you will need to instil in people you report to you, to help them scale their own responsibilities.
Featuring:
9:40
60 min
Commercial Understanding for Engineering
In this session, we’ll cover the basics of business acumen and help you understand for your own organisation what matters most and how success is measured.
Featuring:
10:40
Friends don't let friends debug their leadership skills in production
In this talk, Hywel will discuss the skills needed as engineers progress on different career paths (both technical leadership and people management), and how they can be learned outside the ‘production environment’ of the team.
Featuring:
10:50
Refreshments
Network, learn and explore during every break
Table talks
Join facilitated conversations on how to grow leaders and managers
Featuring:
Speed coaching
Watch or participate in free 1:1 coaching.
Coach:
Office Hours
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Featuring:
Career next steps Q&A
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for:
- Becoming a VP of Engineering
Featuring:
11:45
20 min
In anticipation of change: Strategies for engineering leaders to stay current and effective
One of the toughest challenges you face as an engineering leader is staying current while preparing yourself and your teams for change. There's a requirement to understand the technical issues facing engineers day-to-day and the responsibility to help them navigate an uncertain future. So, how do you stay in the loop? And how can you ensure your decisions are not just reactive but proactive, shaping the future rather than merely responding to it? This talk is about how to overcome this challenge.
Featuring:
12:05
60 min
How to craft a business case for your technical strategy
In this section, we will look into what makes a good technical strategy and what doesn’t. We will learn the basics of how to craft an effective technical strategy for your organisation.
Featuring:
13:10
10 min
Achieving engineering velocity by optimizing developer experience
Engineering teams face compounding pressures to meet business objectives while maintaining operational excellence. The last year, in particular, has forced engineering leaders to maximize productivity with limited resources, forcing them to search for solutions to improve engineering velocity.
Featuring:
13:20
Lunch
Network, learn and explore during every break
Chat to every speaker
Office hours is your opportunity to connect face-to-face, ask questions and find out more.
Featuring:
Table talks
Join facilitated conversations on how to effectively manage engineering budgets
14:30
20 min
Engineering owns velocity
Companies are more eager than ever to quantify the output of their engineering teams to feel confident that they're maximising the return on that investment. Unfortunately, when non-engineers try to increase the output of engineering teams, they often wind up optimising short-term deliverables and devaluating key aspects of an engineering team's job. In this talk, Rafe will explore what engineering leaders need to do to credibly own velocity and deeply align their work with the company strategy.
Featuring:
14:50
60 min
Getting things done that people actually want done
We’re going to take a look at delivery through a cross-functional leadership lens rather than functional leadership lens. We’re going to disconnect from whether our teams can or cannot get things done and instead focus on how you create alignment and the foundations for teams to succeed in delivering on the expectations of the organisation.
Featuring:
16:00
Refreshments
Network, learn and explore during every break
Table talks
Join facilitated conversations on how to effectively improve engineering velocity in your organization
Featuring:
Speed coaching
Watch or participate in free 1:1 coaching.
Coach:
Office Hours
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.
Featuring:
Career next steps Q&A
Dedicated sessions on how to take the next step in your career for:
- The CTO path
Featuring:
16:30
60 min
Contemplating the Future: Modeling your organisation to meet a shifting business
Your company strategy has shifted. There are layoffs. A new CPO enters the fray, and they are extremely into the *technology du jour*. Your product is deprecated. You're going through a merger. These things happen to companies throughout the industry on a regular basis with increasing frequency. How often do you think about whether your organisation is structured to serve the most important business and product goals of your company, and what would it look like if you did?
Featuring:
17:30
20 min
Growing engineering managers: Breaking down the monolith
This talk will delve into the intricacies of being an effective engineering manager by dissecting the multifaceted role into distinct components. Chiranjiv will explore technical excellence, people management, and delivery, breaking down each aspect into manageable units that can be employed for evaluation and strategic planning.
Featuring:
17:50
10 min
CLOSE
LeadingEng London 2024 Wrap-up
Closing session
Featuring:
18:00
90 min
NETWORK
Networking mixer
Join us for the networking drinks reception
18:05
Networking mixer
Spend some time with other attendees after the programme.
Office Hours
Chat with the speakers face-to-face in a relaxed, conversational environment.