No one ever offers training for managers or managers. People are often left winging it, treating managers much as they did individual contributors. As a result, being a line manager can be most tumultuous, vulnerable and frustrating positions in a company.

In this talk, we will be discussing common mistakes people make when managing managers and what we can do about it.

Despite reaching the 10 year anniversary of the Apple App Store, very few organizations know how to do mobile at scale. Whether it is a web-first company bringing their product to mobile or a mobile-first product whose prototype became their product.

This talk will present a tactical checklist on how to build and deploy a mobile application as well as solutions for common pitfalls along the way.

After twenty years in the software industry, I have seen almost all the different ways organizations can fail at diversity.

This talk will present a set of tactical changes and tools your organization can implement if they truly want to create diverse and supportive environments. This advice will be from an engineering leader’s perspective where control of bias and discrimination will ultimately be your responsibility.