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Leadership Evolution, Revolution and Devolution
Louise Elliott discusses the history of leadership, how people choose leaders, the impact of the industrial revolution, the devolution of leadership and the importance of followers.
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How to Cloud Ops Like a Boss
The panelists answer the question “What does it take for an Ops team to run a platform that scales with business, is always available, secure, and performing optimally?”.
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Am I a Brilliant Jerk?
Justin Becker focuses on the jerk part of “brilliant jerk”. He talks about the Emotional Intelligence and why it matters in developing and operating software systems effectively.
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How the Olympics Can Make You a Better Person
Sandy Mamoli shares learnings from her professional sports career, covering topics such as meritocracy and diversity, rapid feedback, radical candor and high-performance teams.
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Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control
Nick Caldwell discusses his engineering team's approach to Agile development as they scaled from 40 to 120 engineers.
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Real-time Collaborative Editing with CRDTs
Nathan Sobo talks about a new library called Tachyon that draws from the latest CRDT research to enable real-time collaborative text editing in a fully distributed setting.
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Three Baseline Metrics
Mike Burns outlines three metrics -cycle time, throughput, and work item size- a team can use to help improve team performance, and allow for the right decisions to be made at the right time.
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The Groupishness of Groups
Katy Rowett explores some of the social defenses that teams might engage in when people leave or join groups or when management seems to work against them.
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Deep Listening: Creating Conversational Agility
Brian Branagan explains how to decrease dissatisfaction with “not being heard” by changing the way of listening, supported by latest discoveries in the neuroscience of listening.
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Software (r)Evolution: A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt
Adam Tornhill introduces techniques based on software evolution and psychology that help to uncover problematic code, detect organizational issues and make practical decisions guided by data.
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The Danger of Team Safety
Katherine Kirk suggests that sometimes team safety can actually be detrimental. In this talk, she explores what else could be done.
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Development Metrics You Should Use But Don't
Cat Swetel discusses new ways and tools to visualize a team’s reliability and variability of delivery using the data already collected.