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Technical diplomacy
Explore “Technical Diplomacy” to lead without authority. Learn strategies to build trust, break through resistance, and unite diverse teams in achieving shared goals with empathy and collaboration.
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The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversation
In this episode, Cate discusses how to supercharge your career as a leader and thrive in your current role whilst supporting your team members.
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Making what you have enough: Navigating the realities of the non-boom market
Discover essential tools for navigating uncertainty in the current non-boom market, focusing on resource optimization, prioritization, and supporting individual team members for collective success.
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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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Delivery metrics – the good, the bad and the utterly ridiculous
As an engineering team lead, I spent countless hours pouring over data points, spreadsheets, and graphs in search of the perfect set of metrics to measure our team’s success.
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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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Creating an inclusive engineering culture
Having a tech career as a minority is challenging. It could mean being the only one to speak against the popular opinion, or becoming more visible to get the same level of recognition.
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Writing effective technical documentation
Documentation can make a big difference. Internal documentation can speed your team up and makes it easier for new engineers to get up and running. External documentation reduces time spent on support questions, and makes your product more usable.
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Making the right salary decisions for your engineering team
You make a hire for your team. The person wants 20% more than anyone else. Should you give it to them?
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Handling security issues as an engineering team
We live in a world of technology and engineering. Almost everything around us requires software. Unfortunately, the software we use or build has bugs. While most bugs can be fixed, there are these other types of bugs, called vulnerabilities, that cause headaches and haunt us at night.
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How to affect change without losing your job
Sometimes, we want to make changes to processes and habits our team has, but it’s not around the code itself. How can we do that? How do we make changes to the habits of hundreds? Moreover, how can we do this work as individual contributors?
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How to scale yourself as a first-time engineering leader
When you’re a first-time leader it’s hard to transition from being a problem solver to leading a team to solve problems. It’s often tempting to step in and solve problems for your team.
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Bridging the gap between engineering and customer success teams
Investing in your customer success team is high leverage. The more knowledgeable your team is, the more effective it can be at investigating, diagnosing and triaging customer issues.
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Using an ‘architectural North Star’ to align your engineering team with your organization
In a fast-growing, agile organization, teams are usually encouraged to self-organize. Equipped with the guiding principles such as fast iteration and frequent feedback loop with the customers, we entrust the most valuable asset, people, to make informed decisions.
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Transitioning from technical leadership to parenthood, and back again
Navigating any new personal scenario while leading a team can be extremely challenging, but last summer I found myself nine months pregnant and leading our engineering organization through an acquisition while preparing for the birth of my son. On the day he was born, I got the news that the acquisition had been finalized.
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Extended leave: how to manage the anxieties of returning to work
As more companies offer longer parental leaves and other leaves of absence, managers and their teams are learning how to handle them successfully.
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Driving architecture alignment across a fully-distributed engineering workforce
InVision started as a small startup several years ago with tens of engineers, small teams working independently as velocity was paramount. But as InVision grew to hundreds of engineers, all fully remote, we realized that this independence was actually slowing us down – teams resolving the same problems, inconsistent metrics, etc.
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How to hire remote junior developers
You wouldn’t hire a senior developer without giving them any support or possibilities for growth, would you? Of course not!
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Crafting effective 1:1s for distributed engineering teams
Creating relationships with the individual humans on your distributed team is difficult since you rarely get to see them in person! But a team is much less likely to be effective and successful without a foundation of interpersonal relationships and trust.
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Splitting the monolith
After years—even decades—on the existing legacy mainframe, we pitched a plan to migrate a company to a new, microservices-based architecture. Convincing management seemed easy, but now we have to deliver: Take the years-old legacy system and break it apart into smaller services and systems we can actually maintain.
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Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects
Corporate Culture is an ecosystem and diversity is the air we breathe. As such, how a project/delivery team cultivates its culture impacts the entire project, client relations and end-user experience.
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Clear, concise and consistent: how to communicate and prioritize risks from the engineering team to the wider organization
Communicating risks, particularly to our non-technical colleagues, is a challenge and by not doing it well we suffer pushback from the business. The risks are varied and at all different levels, but can include technical debt, skill gaps, team burnout, and more.
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Lessons from flying for engineering leadership
In October of 2008, I’d been unemployed for about four months. I was doing some consulting work, but still feeling entirely uncertain about my ability to make a living, so I did the obvious thing: I decided it was a good time to learn how to fly a plane.
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Introduction to functional programming
Expressions are the most basic form of human interaction! Programming languages are trending more towards using expressions rather than procedural statements, adopting the declarative paradigm.
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Observability that matters (and avoiding the kind that doesn’t)
The term observability has recently earned somewhat of a cult status — rapidly ascending to the ranks of “agile”, “digital transformation”, “microservices” and other such highly regarded (and perhaps often misused) labels. Suddenly every team wants to incorporate the pillars of observability into their ecosystem.
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Unlocking success: the components of high-performing teams
Do you have a great team & a great mission but don’t understand why the pace of delivery is so slow? Architecture & tech stack is only one part of the story.
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The benefits of delivering imperfect software
We all want to deploy the best software possible to delight our customers and please our product owners. There’s always one more feature, another performance improvement, and code we just wish we wrote better.
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The race to Mach 2.0 at scale
When Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound, he set off a race around the world to do the same with a plane full of paying passengers. The United States, Russia, the UK, and France all wanted a piece of the inevitable fortune to be made building aircraft to cross oceans faster than sound itself.
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Effective meeting facilitation techniques
We’ve all had that experience where we’ve planned the perfect discussion only to have it hijacked by a passionate side-person, lose focus halfway through, or produce the exact same takeaways as you had before you began the discussion.
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Navigating friction in your engineering team
Friction is a common, and necessary, part of team growth—but when left unchecked, team friction is unhealthy for you, your coworkers, your company, and ultimately your end users.