Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Sometimes you need to be a cruise director

Some problems staff engineers face aren't about technical expertise, but clarity and decision-making.

Speakers: Oliver Meyn

October 09, 2024

There is a class of problems that we face as Staff+ engineers where the team has all the technical expertise they need already in the room, but for some reason they can’t make progress.

What they need is not more technical discussion or research, but rather someone who can bring clarity to the path forward, distill their many pros and cons into concrete risks, and finally push them to action. By way of an example of a recent AWS -> GCP migration, I’ll show that we’re all on this ship together, we know where we’re headed, but we just need to agree on what’s happening on the Lido Deck and when, and make it happen.