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The million dollar bug: Quality leadership lessons from costly failures
CrowdStrike lost $5.4B, Sonos stumbled into a $500M crisis – and they’re not alone. Learn battle-tested leadership strategies to protect your organization from quality catastrophes that can shake your business to its core.
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A quick tour of delivery management (and why it matters)
What senior leaders mean by “delivery management,” why it matters, and how to improve it with practical tools and techniques.
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From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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Global teams, seamless success: Managing diverse engineers for high-impact deliveries
Learn how to tackle the real challenges of managing global engineering teams – avoiding miscommunication, preventing team friction, and ensuring accountability – so you can drive on-time deliveries and build a motivated team that delivers quality software.
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Shaped by demand: The power of fluid teams
Discover how Demand-Led Planning enables teams of up to 200 people to reorganise quarterly and succeed without stable, long-lived teams.
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Lost and alone over the Pacific
On December 22, 1978, veteran US Navy pilot Jay Prochnow found himself lost over the Pacific after a navigation failure during a solo ferry flight. With no land in sight and nightfall approaching, he had to find a way to survive. This is the story of how he navigated out of the crisis – and what we can learn from his experience.
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Frictionless movement: How internal mobility transforms engineering culture
Creating an environment that not only makes it easy for people to move teams and roles but encourages that openness.
Highlights from our conferences
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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Systemic leadership for software teams
Francisco Trindade provides a practical perspective on using systemic leadership to drive a software engineering team. Engineering managers will gain a high-level perspective and in-depth insight into how to focus on systems to manage their teams better, from theory to practical solutions.
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Breaking the burnout cycle in engineering teams
Shelly Stuart talks hustle culture – where stress, hard work, and long hours are considered the key to success – has long been pervasive in the tech industry.
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Meeting your people where they are
Amanda Sopkin breaks down some of the big ways in which people are different: communication styles, ways they prefer to receive appreciation, and attitudes towards career progression.
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Better hiring with code review assignments
Lorenzo Saino evaluates how the software engineering skills of job candidates often involves live coding sessions or take-home coding assignments, but both methods have major limitations.
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How to onboard effectively as a remote engineering manager
Prashant Verma summarizes his experiences, tips, tools, and techniques I developed along the way for personal development, team development, and process management.
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From monolith to micro: How to break apart a front-end application
Thayse Onofrio goes through the steps to split a front-end application. We’ll discuss techniques to disintegrate the code and how to do that safely without impacting the production environment.
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Expedition to the LLM and AI frontier
Sanghamitra Goswami talks about how, in the wake of the ChatGPT craze, the whole world is joining hands to experience this recent AI innovation.
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Putting power into practice as a Staff+ engineer
Matthew Hawthorne discusses how, as a Staff+ engineer, you may not have as much power as you’d like within your organization. But you probably have more power than you realize.
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Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT
Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.
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Making transformation work
Chris Pilsworth looks at the challenges that organisations can face, the ways to get support for your initiatives and make the transformation a success.
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Tackling software engineering leaders’ dual mandate
In this 5-minute talk, we’ll discuss what is the engineering leaders’ dual mandate and three focus areas that enable you to successfully achieve it in a VPE role.
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Increase the opportunity for success and diversity in your software engineering teams through professional apprenticeships
Marco Zanchi explores the challenges posed by the skills shortage and the pivotal role professional apprenticeships play in bridging the gap with the most important asset of any organisation: its people.
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Less is more: Tool consolidation for more performance of your testing
Yi Min Yang explores how in the wake of the ongoing global economic situation, organizations across the globe have been grappling with the impact on their software development and expenditure.
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How to better understand business context as a StaffPlus engineer
Learn to be aware of the overall needs of your organization to contextualize and prioritize your workload
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How to be right when it counts: 7 tools for making better decisions: Sho Soboyejo in conversation
Identify when being right is important, and when it’s not
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager
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Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills