Track host
About the track
Technical teams need to be able to adapt, recover, and thrive despite changing requirements, failures, game changing technical advancements, and of course all the while keep tabs on costs and efficiency. An organization’s leadership must build a robust foundation of trust and ensure every individual developer has the agency and autonomy to act within boundaries of acceptable risk. This requires strategic thinking, adaptability, and tactical actions to improve the culture of resiliency each and every day.
This track will dive into approaches teams and engineering leaders have taken to improve the resiliency of their organization over time. It will highlight tactical tools that empower individuals and contribute to the health and efficiency of the collective team. Speakers will also present frameworks that help put structure around the cultural shift necessary to build safety and autonomy. And of course, what would a track be without a nod towards GenAI? We will look at how AI tools like prompt libraries can improve organizational resiliency.
Sessions in this track
Wednesday 4 October. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Ballroom A Session AGILE PRACTICES Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation Sarah Aslanifar Principal Consultant @EqualExperts In a fast-paced, complex and uncertain digital business environment, organizations must evolve to survive. 11:45 Ballroom A Session Organization Resiliency Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change Shweta Saraf Director of Platform Networking @Netflix, Board Member for eBPF Foundation Building and retaining top talent, empowering them with challenging problems, and setting ambitious goals are all essential ingredients for success in any organization. 13:35 Ballroom A Session Resilience The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals Vanessa Huerta Granda Resilience Engineering Manager @Enova, Co-Author of the Howie Guide on Post Incident Analysis, Board Member for the Resilience in Software Foundation Incidents and outages are expensive, they impact engineering productivity, business goals, and your company’s reputation. In this talk I will describe how we can apply resilience throughout the incident lifecycle in order to turn incidents into opportunities. 14:45 Ballroom A Session AI/ML Generative AI and Organizational Resilience Alex Cruikshank Director Product Engineering in AI Lab @West Monroe Generative AI lowers a fundamental barrier in human / computer interaction and could impact all our digitized business processes. This disruption will likely stress most company's organizational resilience, but it also offers opportunities to help organizations respond to future change. 15:55 Ballroom A Session Staff Plus Engineering Building Organizational Resilience Through Documentation and InnerSource Practices David Grizzanti Principal Engineer @nytimes Effective software documentation serves as a cornerstone for knowledge preservation, fostering community and resilience, even in the face of unforeseen disruptions.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.