Track Overview
Optimizing Your Organization for Speed
Learn from expert practitioners how to improve the velocity and flow of your engineering organization through changes to processes, practices, and team structures. Learn how to put the ideas of Lean, DevOps, and Systems Thinking into practice in your organization.
From this track
Enabling Engineering Productivity at the Financial Times
Wednesday Nov 3 / 11:10AM EDT
The Financial Times has embraced autonomy in our development teams, and as a result we move pretty fast - over 30,000 releases in a year from a development team of around 250. Because we have a wide variety of technical architectures, processes and team structures, we need to make sure that all...
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Lead with Speed
Wednesday Nov 3 / 12:10PM EDT
In this talk, I will share concrete examples about being in an organization optimized for cost & efficiency and the shift to optimizing for speed. I will talk about the leadership mindset shift required and how to still achieve cost and efficiency by leading with speed. This journey started...
Courtney Kissler
CTO @zulily
Improving eBay's Development Velocity
Wednesday Nov 3 / 01:10PM EDT
This session outlines eBay’s cross-organizational Velocity initiative to improve our ability to deliver value to customers. While the problem ultimately spans culture, organization, people, and technology, we focused our initial efforts on improving software delivery across the board,...
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
Mark Weinberg
Vice President, Core Product Engineering @eBay
Panel: Engineering Leadership Lessons for Improving Flow
Wednesday Nov 3 / 02:10PM EDT
Please join this panel of industry experts to talk about how to lead organizational change to improve velocity and quality.We will discuss topics like: How to improve organizational structures to help teams focus on the most important prioritiesHow to recognize and remove organizational,...
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Courtney Kissler
CTO @zulily
Ann Lewis
Senior Advisor for Technology Delivery at the U.S. Small Business Administration
Nick Caldwell
VP of Engineering @Twitter & HubSpot Board
Speakers from this track
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Sarah Wells has been a developer for 20 years, leading delivery teams across consultancy, financial services, and media. Building the FT's content and metadata publishing platform using a microservices-based architecture led her to develop a deep interest in operability, observability, and...
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Courtney Kissler
CTO @zulily
Courtney Kissler joined Zulily in January 2021 as CTO and SVP of Technology. Previously she was Vice President Global Technology at Nike accountable for building a re-usable seamless platform to power Nike Direct to Consumer experiences, core commerce services, user services, consumer data...
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Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
Randy has spent more than two decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He is currently VP...
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Mark Weinberg
Vice President, Core Product Engineering @eBay
Mark is a passionate leader with a broad range of technical, design, business and management experience. He is currently the VP of Core Product Engineering at eBay where he co-leads the initiative to increase developer productivity and accelerate software delivery. Previously, Mark spent 18 years...
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Ann Lewis
Senior Advisor for Technology Delivery at the U.S. Small Business Administration
Ann Lewis is Senior Advisor for Technology Delivery at the SBA, focusing on service delivery, system integration, procurement, and all the places where policy implementation intersect with technology. She is part of a cohort of technology leaders appointed to government agencies, with the...
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Nick Caldwell
VP of Engineering @Twitter & HubSpot Board
Nick Caldwell is the VP of Engineering at Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter, he was the VP of Engineering at Reddit and he held various positions in engineering leadership at Microsoft across a 15 year career, including work on natural language processing, enterprise search, machine...
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Track Host
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
Randy has spent more than two decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He is currently VP...
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