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The Evolution of a Portfolio Wall
Greg Cempla and Anna Miedzianowska discuss the Portofolio Wall used by Ocado to have global visibility and to aid collaboration across hundreds of people in four development centers.
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Engineering Culture Revived
Finbarr Joy highlights the techniques software development teams can adopt for themselves to establish a robust engineering culture and a ‘defence’ against misguided top down-driven ’transformations’.
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Building and Growing Sustainable Teams
Vlad Galu talks about how team dynamics should work to survive ‘difficult’ times and strive for “perfect” rather than “good enough”.
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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.