Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

QCon San Francisco 2023

Track

Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

Wednesday 4 October · 5 sessions, 50 minutes each

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 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 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 14:45 Ballroom A Session AI/ML Generative AI and Organizational Resilience Alex Cruikshank Director Product Engineering in AI Lab @West Monroe 15:55 Ballroom A Session Staff Plus Engineering Building Organizational Resilience Through Documentation and InnerSource Practices David Grizzanti Principal Engineer @nytimes
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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