Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience

QCon San Francisco 2023

Keynote

Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience

Wednesday Oct 4 / 09:00AM PDT, Grand Ballroom

Abstract

Most companies have a contingent of engineers who are upset about the lack of a clear engineering strategy. If you dig into solving their “missing strategy” problem, you’ll quickly run into an even bigger challenge: there’s little agreement about what engineering strategy is or which problems it should solve.

In this presentation, we’ll focus on:

  • What problems engineering strategy is particularly suited to solve
  • Examples of real engineering strategies I’ve encountered in my career
  • How to rollout engineering strategy both with and without a mandate from your head of engineering
  • Troubleshooting why your strategy rollout isn’t working
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon San Francisco 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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