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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 talk by Emily Thomas in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

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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Smruti Patel

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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  • How to Design Systems and Processes Teams Actually Follow

    When we work alone, it’s easy to make sure things come out the way we think is best. But what happens when we need to get an entire team to agree on — and actually use — best practices? What if we have to convince an entire company?

  • How to hold career path conversations with developers

    Our industry is not the best at preparing developers to grow their careers when they reach the critical point when they have to decide between continuing to work as an individual contributor or moving into management.

  • Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems

    Have you ever worked on a computer system that was so fragile it was frightening to make changes to? Maybe it was challenging to deploy, difficult to delete code, or changing one piece would cause surprising cascading failures.

  • Intersectional & Inclusive Standards for Developers

    Give a developer readable code and they can code for a day, teach a developer best practices and coding standards and they can be a valuable addition to any engineering team.

  • Increasing code testability

    We all, for the most part, invest time in learning new front-end technologies but how much time if any do we put into client-side testing?

  • Creating Architecture and Teams at Less-than-Google Scale

    Facebook, Google, Uber, LinkedIn, and friends are the rarefied heights of software engineering.

  • Better Incident Management to Reduce MTTR

    A skilled Incident Commander can improve time to resolution and reduce everyone’s stress.

  • Building a culture of continuous delivery

    More rapidly then ever, companies are adopting new technologies, tooling and practices, that allow them to be so agile that it changes their culture overnight. Disruptors are being disrupted within the year.

  • Avoiding common mistakes as a new engineering manager

    In this talk we’ll walk through a hypothetical worst case scenario for a new manager and then walk through specifics on how you can avoid the Spiral.

  • Creating effective engineering internships

    This talk is based on a series of experiences I had working with my interns, sharing their experiences on other internships and improving my methods so we could take most of our 12 weeks together.

  • Improving Reliability with Error Budgets and Site Reliability Engineering

    Reliability is a critical feature of most software, and maintenance rather than initial development predominates the cost of software. Yet, a large number of development teams treat operations as an afterthought instead of integrating operations into their development processes.

  • Revitalizing a cross-functional product organization

    The product and engineering teams at every company size have the same goals: positive team health, high-velocity shipping, and strategic execution.

  • Collaborative debugging on engineering teams

    Teams that write code together should be able to debug issues together. But while we think a lot about engineering collaboratively, we rarely develop processes for debugging collaboratively.

  • How to run awesome tech internships!

    The tech industry has a lot of hiring to do. According to the Tech City 2017 report, “the digital sector is creating jobs 2X faster than the non-digital sector”. At the same time, the tech industry is lacking ways of helping those in underrepresented groups get their first tech role. A possible solution to both of these issues? More internships!

  • An Introduction to ReasonML

    ReasonML is a new syntax for OCaml, developed by Facebook with a heavy influence from JavaScript.

  • An intro to functional programming

    Functional programming makes it easier to write concurrent, testable and expressive code. Even if you’re working in the object-oriented or imperative paradigm, you can benefit a lot by learning functional programming.

  • Supporting the next generation of developers

    Life as a “junior” developer can be intense, overwhelming, but rewarding. How can juniors move on to the next level?

  • Strategies to Edit Production Data

    At some point, we all find ourselves at a SQL prompt making edits to the production database. We know it’s a bad practice and we always intend to put in place safer infrastructure before we need to do it again — what does a better system actually look like?

  • Legacy code: Big Rewrite or Progressive Rejuvenation?

    If we want to renew a big legacy system we have to choose between a big rewrite or a progressive code rejuvenation.

  • Measuring your value as a tech lead

    WARNING: Making the transition from developer to lead is not without risks. Side effects include (but are not limited to): diminished sense of purpose, constant lingering doubt and feelings of inadequacy. These symptoms may disappear over time. If not, consult a professional or watch this talk.

  • Build a Better Hiring Process with Design Thinking

    How do companies hire? And how does a manager build out a hiring process from the ground up?

  • First Steps as a tech Lead

    So you decided to become a lead, or you just became one! Now what?

  • The art of giving and receiving code reviews gracefully

    Code reviews are critiques of a person’s work. If they are invested in that work, then that critique feels personal.

  • Growing teams to continuously deliver

    The Continuous Delivery (CD) team at Spotify knows all about build pipelines. We run thousands of them every day. We were doing a lot of things right, but we still wanted to go faster and smarter