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From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.
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Optimizing the developer experience through collaboration
In the fast-paced world of software development, collaboration is key to building robust and innovative solutions.
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Making better build vs buy decisions
Master a decision-making framework for build-vs-buy choices in engineering, with real-world examples, collaboration strategies, and tips for avoiding integration pitfalls.
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Iterate to Greatness: Building High Performance, AI-native Engineering Teams
In this talk, we’ll discuss how Vercel transitioned to an AI-native company and how you too can operate highly effective, AI-native product engineering teams, from the tools used to the way to stay organised amid the rapidly changing pace of AI.
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Making smart investments: A framework for maximizing your ROI in technical decisions
In this talk, we’re going to explore a framework for evaluating the return on investment (ROI) of complex tech decisions, illustrated with real-world examples that highlight both the traps to avoid and the paths to success. I’ll share methods for pinpointing key metrics that matter, and how to design experiments or proof-of-concepts to measure ROI. Finally we will discuss the importance of staying objective and adaptable throughout the process.
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Data Science Demystified
This talk gives an overview of Data Science and delves deep into the pipeline data scientists use – right from fetching the data, the Python tools and frameworks used to creating models, gaining insights and telling a story.
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Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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Individual Contributors and Managers: Perspectives on difficult conversations
We’re continuing the conversation on re-orgs in a 20-minute fireside chat with our invited IC and Managers as they share more about their experiences and perspectives on this.
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The power of visibility to unblock collaboration
Fostering a culture where knowledge can be shared with everyone.
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Difficult conversations: the re-org
If you are a manager of people, at some point in your career, you have or will find yourself in the position of having a difficult conversation with an employee around organization changes that you are making or that are being made and you are responsible for executing.
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Establishing experimentation as a core part of your project workflow
Gain actionable insights from your users and improve engineering velocity
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Perspectives on what a culture of belonging actually looks like
Building a culture that is equitable is an essential part of your job; and an essential part of equitability is belonging.
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The importance of happiness
Every leader knows that employee happiness is important, but how important is it?
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How to have compassionate conversations about difficult sh*t
How can you have compassionate conversations around racism, transphobia and all forms of oppression?
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Lack of inclusion is a risk management issue: The business case for hiring for lived experience
In this talk, we’ll explore the actionable things individuals can do to ensure their teams are inclusive.
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Inclusion strategies for senior leaders
There’s a lot going on right now. We have the COVID-19 pandemic, a global economic crisis, and in the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, protests and demands for reform.
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Understanding your position and potential in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts
In this panel discussion, we’ll be exploring how to actively learn in an area that’s damaging to get wrong, and how to admit our mistakes, publicly apologise, and build trust when we make mistakes.
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Feedback (and other dirty words): Tamra Chandler and Laura Grealish in conversation
A LeadDev Bookmarked discussion
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Become an effective software engineering manager: James Stanier in conversation
A LeadDev Bookmarked discussion
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Landing projects successfully
Getting projects across the finish line is a challenge, particularly for projects where you need other teams to do something – for example, to migrate to a new tool or a new version of an API. This talk will cover how to increase the likelihood that those teams will do what you need them to do, through a focus on clarity, communication, and empathy. It will cover some ideas for nudging behaviour too.
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Sustaining and growing motivation across projects
In this panel, we’ll explore how to sustain motivation across long projects, including how to celebrate victories but also how to quickly bounce-back from any obstacles that occur.
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Avoid the Lake!
Large programs are as much about bringing people, teams, and organizations together as much as it is about building and delivering technology. This talk is a brief overview of frequently overlooked steps in execution and proposes small changes to consider to significantly reduce friction during execution.
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Iterating with a purpose
In talk, we’ll be exploring what you need to think about when you start a new project. How do you decide and agree what your goals are and understand how you’ll measure their successes and failures.
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Dealing with times when change isn’t happening
There are times when someone on your team will approach you saying that something needs to change, maybe it’s a piece of company culture or a practice.
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Difficult listening and having difficult conversations
As leaders, we talk often about offering good feedback and direction, but we often fail at its deceptively difficult counterpart—the craft of listening. How can you better understand the underpinnings and science of a listening practice applied specifically to difficult situations—in which you have little opportunity to control the context—and build better skills for comprehensive, empathetic listening?
In this session, we will discuss tactics for supporting safe and open one-on-one spaces for listening and understanding constructively.
