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Unconference: Staff+ Engineering
What is an unconference?
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions. A professional facilitator is also there to help keep the discussion moving forward, but where it goes is up to the participants.
It's a facilitated peer group that avoids the hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as a top-down organization. Only the broad themes are predetermined. Everything else is just space for attendees to sound off ideas together, relate to shared challenges and rewards, and identify new ideas and goals.
Our unconference sessions have been based on the Open Space Technology and Lean Coffee format since 2006.
Why are we doing unconference sessions?
We have designed QCon for senior software practitioners. That role comes with demanding challenges and complex problems.
Connecting with your peers in a structured environment allows you to:
- Broaden your perspective with the benefit of the experience of others.
- Challenge how you've been doing things by breaking out of your bubble.
- Learn from peers who have already overcome the challenges you're facing now.
- Benchmark your solutions against other teams and organizations.
- Get real-world perspectives on challenges that might be too novel or specific to find solutions in books or presentations.
- Validate your technical roadmap with real-world research.
- Connect with others like you and build relationships that go beyond the event.
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Session
Staff Plus Engineering
An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Monday Oct 2 / 10:35AM PDT
In this talk, Erin Doyle, will walk through her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident.
Erin Doyle
Founding Engineer @Quotient and Instructor @Egghead, 20+ Years Across Full Stack Development in Web and Mobile, and Platform Engineering
An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Session
Staff Plus Engineering
Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know
Monday Oct 2 / 11:45AM PDT
As staff+ engineers, we're often thrown into the deep end and expected to navigate huge amounts of ambiguity including ambiguity about what our jobs even are. It's common to feel like there's a huge amount of trial and error or even luck.
Joy Ebertz
Principal Engineer @Harness, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box
Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know
Session
Staff Plus Engineering
Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Monday Oct 2 / 01:35PM PDT
Staff+ engineers can be a powerful force in your organization…if you let them. Effectively managingStaff+ engineers requires different strategies than many managers are used to employing.
Adam Schirmacher
Staff Engineer & Manager of Staff Engineers @Gusto
Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Session
Staff Plus Engineering
Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Monday Oct 2 / 03:55PM PDT
Even as inaction can be a risk, deciding which actions to take in one's career involves choosing between different bets. I've developed a rubric for judging specific risks that I've taken.
Caleb Hyde
Site Reliability Engineer @Expel
Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Session
Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills
Monday Oct 2 / 02:45PM PDT
Staff+ engineering is a critical role in any high-performing engineering organization. But what does it take to get promoted or get hired into a staff role? What does it take to keep it? Join us for a panel discussion with experienced Staff+ engineers who will share their insights.
Erin Doyle
Founding Engineer @Quotient and Instructor @Egghead, 20+ Years Across Full Stack Development in Web and Mobile, and Platform Engineering
Adam Schirmacher
Staff Engineer & Manager of Staff Engineers @Gusto
Joy Ebertz
Principal Engineer @Harness, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box
Caleb Hyde
Site Reliability Engineer @Expel
Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills