Sarah Wells
Sarah Wells is LeadDev’s Editor at Large and a technology leader, consultant, and conference speaker.
Sarah Wells is LeadDev’s Editor at Large. She works with and supports LeadDev’s editorial function to help create engaging content for its community.
Sarah is a technology leader, consultant, and conference speaker with a focus on platform engineering, AI governance. and technical strategy. She has over 20 years’ experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE, and DevOps teams.
She spent over a decade working at the Financial Times, as it transformed from 12 releases a year to more than 20,000, embracing autonomous empowered teams and adopting microservices, DevOps, containers, and platform engineering.
She is the author of the O’Reilly book Enabling Microservice Success: Managing Technical, Organizational and Cultural Challenges.
Building an effective technical strategy
Sarah Wells looks at the many things your team could do over the next year or two. How do you decide which of them to prioritize? Documenting your strategy is important, but it's only the first step. You need to communicate it effectively so that people can use it to make decisions. And finally, you need to track your progress: are you delivering what you need to? Is the strategy still the right one?
What DevOps teams need to know in 2023
How can we create a healthy DevOps culture that supports user retention?
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.
