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Why Your Team Has Slowed Down, Why That's Worse than You Think, and How to Fix it
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Summary
Edmund Jorgensen discusses how and why engineering teams slow down, showing how attempts to manage costs in the face of slowdowns can death-spiral into worse delays with deadly economic consequences.
Bio
Edmund Jorgensen is a co-founder at Hut 8 Labs. Before Hut 8 Labs he worked at HubSpot, TripAdvisor, and a number of startups (some of them also with camel-cased names), where he led teams, designed and coded high-traffic systems, and carried the pager. He is especially interested in the operational and economic aspects of software.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Nov 27, 2014