CTO Craft Con: London 2024
2024-05-08..2024-05-09
London, United Kingdom
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A tech leader's playbook: Galvanising product & tech organisations to deliver repeated success | Crystal Hirschorn | 41m |
Outlines a practical playbook: cast a 1/2/5/10‑year future with working backwards, quantify tradeoffs with a cost‑of‑delay model and a reliability index, and… | ||
| Panel discussion - Challenging ways of working - Finding happiness at work | Liz Pope, Georgina Shute, Ryan Murphy, Lauren Langdell | 44m |
Practical steps: set up an internal well‑being committee with reps from every department and rotate members; run a menu of monthly options (yoga, walks… | ||
| Panel discussion - Selecting the right technology for the right challenge | Tony Butler | 38m |
Panel boils down to concrete rules: one company standardises on .NET and Azure PaaS from day one (since 2015) and refuses deviations, another reports 1.4M… | ||
| Driving technical excellence from the top: A case study in uplevelling | Meri Williams | 12m |
Pleo decides to move a year-old node.js monolith to API-first and upskill ~200 engineers with hands-on coaching from Skil whell using live coding, diagnostic… | ||
| Chair’s opening remarks | Lee-Jon Ball | 02m |
Conference logistics and agenda: this is the seventh event, third in person and doubled in size, with questions via Slido and an optional round table track… | ||
| Closing Remarks | 01m | |
Event closes with a short wrap up and a clear next date: CTO Craft Con: London 2025 on 10-11 March. Organizers confirm the conference model stays in-person and… | ||
| Do you have a minute? A better approach to feedback culture | Clement Pickering | 17m |
Argues that continuous feedback requires specific recipes and systems not slogans and shows what worked at Infinity Works (grew to ~500 people, acquired 2021)… | ||
| Why psychological safety is the key to sustainable product development | Georgina Shute | 15m |
Migrates a mission‑critical hospital data platform—five petabytes—to the cloud with zero downtime by fixing team dynamics rather than processes. Introduces the… | ||
| The art of distributed work: Harnessing strengths & mitigating weaknesses for asynchronous success | Gonçalo Silva | 31m |
Doist runs a 109‑person, fully distributed company across 34 countries and reports 15 years of remote practice, claiming the essentials are documentation-first… | ||
| Leading with empathy: Turning good developers into great engineers | Adam Maschek | 13m |
Defines empathy as "stepping into someone else’s shoes" and shows concrete failures and fixes: sloppy code docs and copy‑pasted PHP docs, a non‑empathetic… | ||
| Chair’s opening remarks | Emma Hopkinson-Spark | 03m |
Day two opens with logistics and a packed schedule: keynote: observability is due for a version change (Charity Major from Honeycomb), fireside: AI, and a… | ||
| Why 'women in tech' is not just about women in tech | Sarah Persov | 33m |
Industry data shows 40–45% leave within eight years and women only apply when they meet ~80% of job criteria; the talk links these to everyday… | ||
| Keynote: Observability is due for a version change; Are you ready for it? | Charity Majors | 33m |
Argues that the industry is moving from metric/three-pillar Observability 1.0 to a breakingly different Observability 2.0 where a single source of truth is… | ||
| Keynote - Innovating at pace with simpler decision-making | Matej Pfajfar | 28m |
Monzo runs 200–250 deployments/day and serves over 9 million customers while using decision templates like RAPID and codified engineering principles to push… | ||
| Welcome to | Andy Skipper | 07m |
CTO Craft has grown to 16,000 members over seven years and now runs mentoring circles, a coaching program, a Tech Manager Weekly newsletter, and a busy Slack… | ||
| Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Having no Tech Strategy | Mark Durrand | 14m |
Argues that a big, prescriptive tech strategy often distracts or divides and recommends lightweight alignment with product and business goals. Gives concrete… | ||
| Beyond Testers: Embedding Test Expertise in Modern Software Development Teams | Katja Obring | 12m |
Argues that dedicated testers are not obsolete but testing expertise must live in every team with concrete practices: upskill developers, teach testers system… | ||
| Fireside chat - Leading your personal growth | Elena Bladh, Emma Hopkinson-Spark | 30m |
Argument: leading personal growth means setting stretch goals and designing short feedback loops, not just managing tasks. Concrete practices: a one-hour… | ||
| Influencing your fellow execs | Andrew Ellam | 15m |
Argues that the tech lead must shift from org advocate to company leader, measuring the tech org by business outcomes not internal priorities and holding the… | ||
| Rebuilding trust & improving understanding between business & engineering | Dan Lake | 12m |
Joined 18 months into a re-org, the engineering org uses a trust battery and a three-point trust triangle to diagnose where credibility is low, then applies a… | ||
| When Agile and AI Collide | Glyn Roberts | 26m |
Argues that developer co‑pilots like GitHub Copilot 55% and AWS CodeWhisperer 57% reduce human coding and speed feature delivery, cites a bench team that used… | ||
| How ZOE built a happy & high-performance engineering culture | Julien Lavigne du Cadet, Lee-Jon Ball | 31m |
ZOE documents a ten‑page values manifesto and uses it day‑to‑day: hiring asks candidates for their favourite value, onboarding requires reading the doc and… | ||
| Practically predictable – Forecasting delivery when nothing is certai | Holly Donohue | 16m |
Uses a throughput forecaster (cycle time = WIP / throughput) to produce probabilistic date ranges instead of single deadlines, pairs that with a risk burndown… | ||
| Carpaccio Methodology: Connecting the dots between ‘the work engineers do’ and a ‘profitable org’ | Alberto Silveira Jr. | 15m |
This proposes the Carpaccio methodology as a practical measurement system that counts features, defects and invisible work into a Healthy Productivity Index… | ||
| Fireside Chat: GenerativeAI & the CTO | Ross McNairn, Emma Hopkinson-Spark | 29m |
Company built a legally focused generative AI product for contract analysis and high‑volume task automation, claiming wins on document queries (eg, percentage… | ||
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