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Andrew Korbel
VP, R&D Operations & Chief of Staff
Ive never had a set destination when considering my careermy first job out of college was as a cartographer! Ive always gravitated toward opportunities that challenge me to think differently while bringing a balance between big-picture thinking and execution.
Unsurprisingly, my interests have led me to various roles within software companies. Today, I currently lead R&D Operations at Clari. Before this role, I was a VP in the Product & Technology Center of Excellence at Insight Partners. While at Insight Partners, I worked closely with portfolio company executives to accelerate growth and create operational capabilities through lean and agile processes and data-driven strategies. Being a part of the team at Insight allowed me to leverage all my learnings and failures throughout my career to give back to Senior Executives across their portfolio. Previously to Insight Partners, I was the VP of Product Operations at Carbon Black, where I designed and built their product operations capabilities. Ive also been Chief of Staff to product and engineering leaders, along with leading R&D Operations at Rally Software and SignalFx through their ScaleUp journeys. Ive also spearheaded engineering at other B2B SaaS companies.
I love sharing my knowledge and experiences in scaling and orchestrating R&D organizations. I live in Colorado but grew up in West Virginia. I enjoy spending time with my family and taking advantage of all that Colorado offers, including hiking, camping, skiing, and the Nuggets, to name a few. Im an avid bike rider and Pittsburgh sports fan, and I love to cook and read!
Presentations
Has your Engineering and Product organization grown exponentially through the pandemic, increasing the number of teams? Has this created more complexity in how you plan and execute? This session is targeted to help you create new ideas to bring back to your organization through storytelling and answering the following questions:
How can you align the organization around a compelling vision of where we are going with planning and execution? (The Pain)
What are the typical ingredients needed to ensure a strong foundation for success? (The Work/The Teams/Values)
What are some practices needed to get to the Big Room? (The Prioritization of Investments)
What happens in the Big Room? (Creating Our Plan/Appreciation/Quick Decisions)
What happens after the Big Room? (Steering the Plan)
Why this isnt the destination but the starting point? (Creating Better Systems and Ways to Work)
There is not a one-size fits all solution to make any organization magically shed all its issues to reduce complexity. However, from our experiences running R&D organizations and advising many CTOs and CPOs, patterns have emerged on how to jump-start an organization in the right direction for them to create their more prominent destination and find the bottlenecks in the system. Join us as we tell stories of our past experiences and show what we have found to be successful in transforming how Product and Engineering organizations plan and execute.
This session is targeted to help you create new ideas to bring back to your organization through storytelling and answering the following questions:
How can you align the organization around a compelling vision of where we are going with planning and execution? (The Pain)
What are the typical ingredients needed to ensure a strong foundation for success? (The Work/The Teams/Values)
What are some practices needed to get to the Big Room? (The Prioritization of Investments)
What happens in the Big Room? (Creating Our Plan/Appreciation/Quick Decisions)
What happens after the Big Room? (Steering the Plan)
Why this isnt the destination but the starting point? (Creating Better Systems and Ways to Work)
There is not a one-size fits all solution to make any organization magically shed all its issues to reduce complexity. However, from our experiences running R&D organizations and advising many CTOs and CPOs, patterns have emerged on how to jump-start an organization in the right direction for them to create their more prominent destination and find the bottlenecks in the system. Join us as we tell stories of our past experiences and show what we have found to be successful in transforming how Product and Engineering organizations plan and execute.
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Two and a half days of insightful sessions, inspiring ideas, and meeting your peers. Learn the skills and methods that will take your organization to the next level.
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