Plato Elevate Fall Summit 2022
2022-09-14..2022-09-16
San Francisco, United States
[Plato Elevate Fall Summit 2021, Plato Elevate Fall Summit 2022]
who it's for
engineering managers, directors of engineering, vp of engineering, people managers, tech leads, talent leaders, product engineers
topics
six-month term mentorship; Plato levels career ladder; mentorship call canvas; external mentor network; Plato dashboards tracking outcomes; measuring developer experience; build for deprecation; red button automated mitigation; engineers meet a customer; end-to-end product ownership; PSHE hiring promotion axis; two-way write-ups ritual
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | Quang Hoang, Bonnie Brieden, Dathan Pattishall, Adam Johnston, Stephen Chang | 10m |
Plato introduces three concrete platform changes: a six-month term mentorship with a 30-minute intro call, auto-scheduled bi-weekly or monthly sessions and an… | ||
| Empowering Your Team Through Mentorship | Veena Basavaraj, Jean-Baptiste Coger | 10m |
Company adopts Plato as an external mentorship platform, enrolls more staff in 2022 and uses Plato dashboards to track outcomes so mentorship performance is… | ||
| More Money More Problems | Sagnik Nandy | 38m |
Teams hit four recurring technical inflection points as growth brings more customers and more problems: legacy systems require rewrites and designers should… | ||
| Delivering Features VS Delivering Impact | Chris Slowe, Shadi Rostami | 30m |
Companies move from shipping output to measuring outcomes by forcing engineers to own product experience and combine qualitative and quantitative signals… | ||
| Maintaining Morale and Engagement Through Hard Times | Kathryn Koehler, Gerhard Esterhuizen | 36m |
Advice focuses on concrete actions: explain why a change is needed, state goals and principles, and give a clear timeline; run layoffs with a plan that… | ||
| The One Value That Matters: Trust | Rukmini Reddy, Xiao Guo, Janice Little | 28m |
Teams scale from a few dozen to 1000+ engineers by shifting who gets attention and how trust is tracked: use pulse surveys twice a year, run a fast feedback… | ||
| What the Best Engineering Leaders Do Differently | Shishir Mehrotra | 22m |
Describes three concrete practices: a hiring/promotion axis called PSHE (problem-solution-how-execution) used to map engineers’ growth, a decision method of… | ||
| Product Engineers: When and How to Hire Them? | Ellen Wong, Cosmin Nicolaescu | 36m |
Defines product engineers as a persona — often full‑stack or front/back engineers who take early product ownership, decouple product from technical solutions… | ||
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