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New paper on arXiv! Check out the results of our intercept study conducted at #LeadDevNYC with ICs, managers, and leaders on how their orgs currently measure success and how they wish their orgs would measure success.

Turns out orgs aren’t really focusing on #productivity but on performance and production. What do folks want? Well, productivity and performance.

Check the full results here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11030

#SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperProductivity @seresearchers

Fun news! My #LeadDevNYC talk on how #hackathon success depends on team culture is up online! Check it out! Coming soon is also the research report the talk is based on. Although the talk isn’t free to watch, the report will be free to read, so keep an eye out! https://leaddev.com/new-york/leaddev/video/2023/how-successful-hackathons-increase-belonging-decrease-anxiety-and-help-people #softwaredeveloper #softwareengineering

@whereistanya I think the line of people at #LeadDevNYC that I saw ask to have you sign their copy of the book and gushed over how it transformed their approach to their career is, perhaps, a telling set of reviews.

Fire alarm goes off at the hotel at 23:00, NYFD calls for a building evacuation. Nothing like trekking down 15 flights of stairs, having just fallen asleep. Judging by the lack of urgency and the multiple groups of high school seniors, I am (wildly) speculating that someone bought some weed and tried to smoke it in their room. More stories to tack onto my wrap-up of #LeadDevNYC and #StaffPlusNYC.

Had a great two days of talks with #LeadDevNYC and looking forward to today's learnings at #StaffPlusNYC. Come find me to talk about just about anything, including how awesome Chicago is, what it's like to be in an IC role where no one knows what you do but everyone finds you indispensable, and setting technical vision and strategy.
I'm in a white knit sweater, today.

There are a surprising number of professionally-trained teachers on stage this year. #LeadDevNYC

“I used to be a high school teacher. I've seen the damage that exams do. Kids don't learn from exams... People learn how to pass exams, not how to use the skill you're trying to teach them. Exams are distractions, they're stressful."—Clare Sudbery, emphasizing the importance of FOCUSING ON THE ABILITY TO LEARN. #LeadDevNYC

“Get the people who know stuff to teach the people who don’t. Let people learn by teaching and researching.” This sounds so much like a high-functioning team. #LeadDevNYC

DON'T FETISHIZE EXPERIENCE—Clare Sudbery #LeadDevNYC

“How do you make sure you hires have the skills and experience that match your technology stack?” #LeadDevNYC

“It's up to you whether [your hires] succeed”—Clare Sudbery #LeadDevNYC

"How do you avoid hiring people who are not going to succeed in your organization?” #LeadDevNYC

"How do you persuade the best people to work for you?”—Clare Sudbery #LeadDevNYC

“Why would these Pringles be on this plate?”—Clare Sudbery, closing us out #LeadDevNYC

It bears saying out loud that Leaderless teams optimize for long-tenured, senior, over-represented engineers. It hurts diversity. #LeadDevNYC

“Tech industry has traditionally been against micromanagement. This is great.
It has also valued individual ownership of work through the perspective of empowerment. This has tradeoffs.”—Francisco Trindade #LeadDevNYC

How much should an Engineering Manager shape, act, and lead their team? Francisco Trindade takes the stage #LeadDevNYC

“You have to move heavy objects. We’re not a class of people known for our physical prowess”—Jason Blanchard #LeadDevNYC

As we think about abstraction on an two-axis chart (change complexity and degrees of abstraction), you get to navigate the Summit of Stuff, the Ridge of Rigidity, the Bucket of Building Blocks #LeadDevNYC

It's really notable that as Jason talks about architecting with change in mind, with migrations in mind, that the right boundaries and constraints are really important, in that they give you the right freedom of movement. #LeadDevNYC

"Match your appetite for abstraction with your need for change”—Jason Blanchard #LeadDevNYC

Listen, I'm just saying: The audience at #LeadDevNYC was privy to the three funniest jokes in the history of the world, and the price of a ticket to give them access to this yielded a massive return on investment.

As we head into the end of the conference, three last talks. The first of them is from Jason Blanchard, who's talking about Evolutionary Architecture. #LeadDevNYC

How you structure your Terraform code base models your infrastructure strategy—Hila Fish #LeadDevNYC

Hila Fish is here to talk about Terraform practices that help us enable infrastructure scaling #LeadDevNYC

“No one else is going to make this better. You are the people who will make this better” #LeadDevNYC

This isn't just relevant to large organizations, obviously, but often overlooked: “Building a team is not just hiring the people, it’s getting everyone agreed on how they’re going to work together”—Pablo Jablonski #LeadDevNYC