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Marc LeBrun, VP of Engineering at Flow Kana and a co-creator of the Apple Mac, recalls how one of his early prototypes failed to meet the original intent but how that failure turned into an unanticipated opportunity.
Marc LeBrun
VP Engineering at Flow Kana
Marc LeBrun, VP of Engineering at Flow Kana and a co-creator of the Apple Mac, delves into the importance of understanding different personality types in the workplace and explains why the traditional Golden Rule -- treat others as you want to be treated -- doesn’t always apply.
Marc LeBrun
VP Engineering at Flow Kana
Krzysztof Zmudzinski, Director of Engineering at Egnyte, discusses how he used KPIs to evaluate the performance of one of his senior engineers and how that led to his promotion to a principal engineer role.
Krzysztof Zmudzinski
Director of Engineering at Egnyte, Inc.
Alessandro Pintaudi, Product Management Director at Payfit, comes up with an exciting proposal of transforming software developers into product engineers by establishing cross-functional context analysis and shared objectives.
Alessandro Pintaudi
Product Management Director at PayFit
With both the need for a more supportive team setting and shorter feedback cycles, Marc LeBrun, VP Engineering at Flow Kana, addresses two problems with a single solution.
Marc LeBrun
VP Engineering at Flow Kana
Marc LeBrun, VP Engineering at Flow Kana, shows the value in establishing a collaborative relationship with a withdrawn but highly-capable employee. We can then use that bridge to draw the person back into the team and elevate everyone’s performance.
Marc LeBrun
VP Engineering at Flow Kana
Marc LeBrun, VP Engineering at Flow Kana, describes how he empowered teams to make decisions and uplevel their process by adopting a low-tech approach to agile practices.
Marc LeBrun
VP Engineering at Flow Kana
Steve Hoeg, Director of Engineering at Faire, provides a detailed list of instructions that will make your remote work in times of coronavirus pandemics more efficient and productive.
Steve Hoeg
Director of Engineering at Faire
Kowsheek Mahmood, Principal and CTO at ArchetypeTech, explains how he adapted an ineffective team by determining and implementing team-evaluation processes to better align the team on product delivery.
Kowsheek Mahmood
Principal & CTO at ArchetypeTech
Viacheslav Bessonov, Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital, outlines how he improved communication internally - with his fully distributed team, while also improving communication with the customer - located across various time zones.
Viacheslav Bessonov
Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital
Viacheslav Bessonov, Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital, describes the advantages and disadvantages of three different infrastructures and how he made the final decision on which one was best for his company.
Viacheslav Bessonov
Chief Technology Officer at Algalon Capital
Alessandro Pintaudi, Product Management Director at Payfit, talks about how teams need to focus more time on building the right things and how to keep doing it with scale.
Alessandro Pintaudi
Product Management Director at PayFit
Summary CTO at Culture Purveyor Labs, Kisha M Richardson, who for the most part is self-taught, defines the parameters in which she was able to boost her career. Neither a lack of information nor the fact that she was pigeonholed by her first manager kept Kisha from realizing her professional reach.
Kisha Richardson
CTO at Culture Purveyor Labs
Maria Petrova, Principal Product Manager at Zalando describes how she built an organizational design from product and stack in a way that tech and product effectively function in a collaborative environment.
Maria Petrova
Principal Product Manager at Zalando
Maria Petrova, Principal Product Manager at Zalando details how she strategically mapped out features using a KPI tree to drive measurement, ultimately helping the development team understand their role.
Maria Petrova
Principal Product Manager at Zalando
Maria Petrova, Principal Product Manager at Zalando recounts a problem that she has encountered with several different teams regarding request management and stakeholder management.
Maria Petrova
Principal Product Manager at Zalando
Tarani Vishwanatha, Senior Engineering Manager at Scribd, shared a story where he dealt with the conflict of an upset engineer that did not get a promotion he believed he was entitled to. He explains the distinction between being the most technical and being well rounded. Vishwanatha talks about the importance of being self-aware as it's essential to career growth.
Tarani Vishwanatha
Senior Engineering Manager at Scribd
Paulo André, VP of Engineering at TourRadar, emphasizes all the benefits of enhancing partnership between Product and Engineering and explains how to achieve it.
Paulo André
VP Engineering at TourRadar
Paulo André, VP of Engineering at TourRadar, discusses different aspects of a scalable hiring process.
Paulo André
VP Engineering at TourRadar
Stefan Gruber, VP of Engineering at Bitmovin, emphasizes the importance of task delegation as a key time management skill.
Stefan Gruber
VP of Engineering at Bitmovin
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