Plato Elevate Fall Summit 2021
2021-09-14..2021-09-16
San Francisco, United States
[Plato Elevate Fall Summit 2021, Plato Elevate Fall Summit 2022]
who it's for
engineering leaders, engineering managers, product leaders, people managers, talent acquisition leaders, platform engineers, DEI leads
topics
scaling engineering organizations; vertical product teams on platform; DEI practices and metrics; remote-first hiring and onboarding; discovery-to-delivery workflow; OKRs and bottoms-up roadmapping; decision logging with DACI; try-before-you-buy internships; RICE prioritization and Productboard; AI-powered wearable gesture detection
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling Tech Organizations | Chris Slowe | 31m |
Practical roadmap for scaling from a garage team to a 1,200 person org with four phases: startup ~0–25, dawn of managers ~25–100, director phase ~100–500, and… | ||
| Building Inclusive Teams | Jossie Haines, Anand Safi | 30m |
Argues that inclusion drives retention and performance with concrete metrics: 56% of women leave tech after 10–20 years, diverse firms see 2.3x higher cash… | ||
| Harmonizing Across Product & Engineering (Cross Team Collab) | Rukmini Reddy, Steve Wood | 31m |
Two product and engineering leaders describe concrete rituals and tools: a 15-minute daily sync to keep information flowing, dogfooding Workflow Builder and a… | ||
| Engineer's Lifecycle Management - Remote First Environment | Vijay Gill, Vivek | 30m |
Company shifts to distributed remote first work with synchronized office days and a rule that anyone in-office joins meetings by phone to avoid bandwidth… | ||
| What Product Leaders Do | Rich Mironov | 30m |
Defines four concrete leader tasks: hire and train a product team so individual PMs own delivery, set and protect a clear product strategy, build cross… | ||
| Embedding Discovery & Delivery in the Same Workflow | Pauline Marol, Robin Rahe | 26m |
Playbook formalizes five steps: problem understanding, solution exploration, product & tech delivery, then a required post-launch analysis and iteration until… | ||
| Reaching Success Through Product Engineering | Steve Dantas, Satyajeet Salgar, Sinduja Ramanujam | 29m |
Argues that product roles are consolidating and teams must choose which product responsibilities to keep, recommends holding a clear hypothesis and refusing to… | ||
| Growing as a Leader: Dealing with Change | Amit Sawant, Sophia Broomfield | 31m |
Describes an AI-powered wearable gesture detection platform for remote patient monitoring and concrete tools used to keep teams connected: Microsoft Teams and… | ||
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