Elevate Spring Summit 2021
2021-03-12
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who it's for
engineering managers, tech leads, directors of engineering, product managers, talent acquisition managers, people operations managers
topics
continuous integration and continuous deployment with feature flags; product and customer feedback loops; blameless postmortems and incident reviews; engineering productivity metrics (MTTR, change failure rate, cycle time); asynchronous updates and short briefing rituals; operating model 'code yellow' with named DRI; remote hiring and compensation by geography; onboarding rotations and 360 self-checks; team topologies and Conway's Law mitigation; maintaining a 30% technical debt floor; rapid proof-of-concepts and internal demos; meeting design to reduce Zoom fatigue
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Flywheel Effect of Feedback | Cathy Polinsky | 32m |
Argues that four concrete feedback loops—product, customer, team, individual—create a compounding flywheel: shipping faster via continuous integration and… | ||
| Managing Meetings Without Succumbing to Zoom Fatigue | Jean Hsu | 31m |
A playbook for fewer, shorter, and more productive meetings: replace status calls with asynchronous updates using Loom or Range; run a 25-minute weekly… | ||
| High Performance in Changing Times | Neetika Bansal | 26m |
During the pandemic a 75-person money movement group at Stripe shifts its roadmap to prioritize immediate ecommerce needs and produces a practical playbook… | ||
| Measuring Success | Kathryn Koehler, Madhav Nair, Andrew Lau | 28m |
Productivity measures treat engineering as a dashboard not a single number and rely on concrete signals: mean time to restore, issue cycle time, change failure… | ||
| Daphra Holder of Facebook Venu Kalluri of Dolby.io and Janice Little of SheerID for Plato's Elevate | Daphra Holder, Venu Kalluri, Janice Little | 30m |
Dolby.io describes an interactivity API that ships usable audio/video and media analysis endpoints and faces many unique customer feature requests after… | ||
| Retention | Monica Bajaj, Praful Kaul, John Kim | 32m |
Companies move to virtual interviews, keep compensation and equity tied to compensation by geography, and often preserve existing pay when employees relocate… | ||
| Scaling | Dave Burgess, Derek Knudsen, Shweta Saraf | 31m |
Scaled an engineering org from 2 to 20 and another from ~20 to 40–50 in 2.5 years, and the hard lessons are concrete: prioritize product–market fit over hiring… | ||
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