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How not to lose friends and alienate yourself: Learnings from a journey to Staff Engineer

Waheed El Miladi reflects on his journey to Staff Engineer and discusses some of the personal pitfalls and unexpected challenges he encountered while moving through roles and the personal skills and strategies I’ve developed to address them.

Waheed El Miladi

Finding your path to vision and mission

Nicole Tibaldi, a Senior Engineering Manager at The New York Times, walks through the steps required to understand your goals for having a clear team vision and mission, and using that to empower engineers to make decisions.

Nicole Tibaldi

Don’t let metrics be a distraction

Setting and tracking metrics can be a tempting solution for many situations. In this talk, Jean Hsu covers a few common scenarios and how to integrate metrics with other approaches to get your desired results.

Jean Hsu

The Three C’s of Company-Wide Collaboration

Nick Means digs into the three crucial things every company can holistically invest in to build an environment that fosters healthy collaboration across their entire organization.

Nickolas Means

Creating alignment across a project lifecycle

As engineering managers, it's normal to reach the end of the workday and feel like we’ve done a million things, without really gaining alignment across the project lifecycle.

Martha Moniz

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.

Maggie Litton

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.

Suhail Patel

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