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Breaking the Ceiling: Scaling Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
Thiago Ghisi discusses what defines the Staff-Plus level, expectations across companies, approaches for high-performing Staff-Plus Engineers, strategies for scaling, and examples of "Staff Projects".
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Strangler Things: How to De-risk Legacy Code Migrations
Shawna Martell discusses a case study in which they disentangled systems with no customer impact and zero downtime, how they prioritize feature migration, tooling, and backwards compatibility.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
Sarah Aslanifar discusses leveraging continuous learning to drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and significantly improve product outcomes, covering the crucial role of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
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The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Vanessa Huerta Granda describes how to apply resilience throughout the incident lifecycle in order to turn incidents into opportunities, looking at real-life examples.
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Building a Successful Platform: Acceleration, Autonomy & Accountability
Smruti Patel discusses successful platform adoption. She explores topics including failed platform-building efforts, the three pillars of a successful platform, and more.
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Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change
Shweta Saraf discusses harnessing the collective intelligence of a team to not only multiply productivity, but also cultivate organizational resilience in the face of unceasing changes.
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Mission, Culture, and Values: Using Them to Guide Your Company through Good and Challenging Times
Heather McKelvey discusses LinkedIn’s guidelines used to weather events, such as economic downturns, and how to turn those periods into opportunities.
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Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience
Will Larson discusses what problems engineering strategy solves, examples of real engineering strategies, how to rollout engineering strategy, troubleshooting why your strategy rollout isn’t working.
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The Creative Act: How Staff+ Is More Art Than Science
David Grizzanti talks about his path to Staff+ and how he views it as more art than science, looking at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics.
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Success Patterns in for Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile
Robin Yeman demonstrates that there is a mission imperative to migrate from phase gate approach to Scaled Agile to increase safety for stakeholders.
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Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
Fred Hebert discusses various small approaches and patterns that influence how teams deal with reliability, and highlights some of the key interactions and behaviors.
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Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale
Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.