Organizations come in many different shapes, sizes, and ages but one challenge they all share is how to set teams up for success in today’s fast-moving and volatile world. How should teams be structured? How should they collaborate and communicate? What tools, processes, and ways-of-working should they use? How can we help teams to learn and improve?
This track will explore how teams in a variety of organizations - from a tech startup with just a handful of employees, to a 180 year old enterprise of over 65,000 - are trying to answer these questions and more. Speakers will share their stories and insights of how teams are really working and being empowered to get stuff done.
From this track
Making Change Stick: Lessons Learned From Helping Teams Improve at the Co-Op
Tuesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST
The Co-op has a wide range of software teams, working closely with its variety of businesses (from food to funerals) to build and improve services for use by over 65,000 colleagues, 5 million members, and many more customers.
Neil Vass
Engineering Manager at Co-Op with 18+ Years in Tech, Previously Worked at BBC and Tessella
The Journey of ClearBank From Start-Up To Scale-Up
Tuesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
Join me on the journey of ClearBank’s transition from a start-up to a scale-up, focusing on the impact on culture and decision-making, and how this affected our engineering teams.
Michael Gray
Principal Engineer @ClearBank
Being a Bad Influence – The Dangerous Dichotomies of People Management
Tuesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST
Humans are complicated unpredictable creatures. As managers and leaders we need to be consistent, yet flexible. Strong, yet vulnerable. Caring, yet authoritative. We need to be so many things that it's often hard to be ourselves - but don’t forget to also be authentic!
Hannah Foxwell
Independent Consultant at the Intersection of Platform Engineering, Security, and AI, Founder of AI For the Rest of Us
Bits, Bots, and Banter: A Deep Dive into How Tech Teams Work in a DevOps World
Tuesday Apr 9 / 02:45PM BST
Working in a DevOps world, we've all witnessed many recommendations for how teams work. We have books, blogs, tech trade articles, and even entire pieces of software dedicated to helping teams work together more effectively. We're expected to take a blue-sky approach with the given advice.
Brittany Woods
Senior Engineering Manager @ The LEGO Group
A Tale of Team Topologies at m3ter
Tuesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST
The path to success is frequently a winding one, and as a series A tech startup, m3ter is no exception.
Ricardo Nuno Almeida
Senior Software Engineering Manager @m3ter
Thriving Through Change: Leading Through Uncertainty
Tuesday Apr 9 / 05:05PM BST
Navigating change and building resilient teams is a complex challenge that many organizations face. Times of change can lead to uncertainty, disagreement, and a breakdown in trust.
Jennifer Davis
Engineering Manager @Google, Previously @Microsoft and @Chef, Author of "Effective DevOps" and "Modern System Administration"
