Stretch Conference 2022
2022-11-28..2022-11-29
Budapest, Hungary
[Stretch Conference 2018, Stretch Conference 2020, Stretch Conference 2021, Stretch Conference 2022]
as the organisers put it
Stretch is a leadership and management conference organized for the 8th time since 2013 by CraftHub. Come and learn from the best and stretch yourself.
who it's for
engineering managers, engineering leaders, tech leads, people managers, human resources leads, organizational designers, leadership coaches
topics
one-on-one cadence and signals; onboarding with pairing metrics; weekly win log for visibility; Sociocracy 3.0 patterns; DORA metrics for teams; SLOs and error budgets; contemporaneous documentation practices; psychological safety observation techniques; scaling engineering domains and task forces; consent decision rules ('good enough for now'); controlled-chaos simulation training
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Great Leaders Train And Remove Employees' Blind Spots | Shawn Fair | 46m |
Four concrete stories link dysfunction to fixable actions: a misdiagnosed headache actually needed a clothing change, a trainer accidentally emails a naked… | ||
| Getting Comfortable with Self-Advocacy | Shailvi Wakhlu | 46m |
Argues that clear self-advocacy increases business results and cuts attrition, recommends a simple routine: document weekly wins with concrete metrics, coach… | ||
| Empathetic Leadership | Katie Kenney | 46m |
Argues that empathetic leadership measurably boosts results: cites Catalyst finding of 4.7× more innovation, Google Project Aristotle and HBR data showing top… | ||
| What it Takes to Be A Successful Leader in Today's Market | Jenn Donahue | 44m |
Claims that 80% of leavers want more hope and trust not money and that only ~20% leave for pay, backed by four years of poll aggregation showing empathy… | ||
| Leading Through Chaos | Hélio Vogas | 46m |
Argues leaders must adapt style to the moment and prepare specific contingency plans rather than cling to a methodology, using controlled stress training like… | ||
| How to scale a unicorn-building engineering team (and stay sane) | Gad Salner | 46m |
Describes how Melio grows engineering from 1 to 25 people in a year by mapping eight engineering domains, running SWOT on gaps, and turning each domain into… | ||
| Growing Agile and Resilient Organizations with Sociocracy 3.0 | Lili David | 01h 01m |
Sociocracy 3.0 (launched 2015) is a free social technology with 74 patterns and seven guiding principles that thousands of people use; the developers report… | ||
| Five core practices for effective organisation | Benjamin Taylor | 45m |
Five concrete practices: run constructive conversations that treat emotion as usable data and use facilitation when tensions surface; create Clarity with a… | ||
| Proper Documentation | Angela R. Hooper-Menifield | 46m |
Argues that documentation is insurance and shows concrete stakes: 58% of managers get no management training, only 4% of companies always document processes… | ||
| How to Lead Change as the Newbie | Amber Vanderburg | 47m |
Claims a new leader wins by prioritizing relationships, clarifying start with why, and then choosing whether the change will fix, improve, or create; offers… | ||
| How engineering managers can lead with visibility | James Samuel | 42m |
Engineering managers get a concrete framework: measure four pillars—process, operation, people, product—with specific signals and tools. Use DORA metrics… | ||
| A psychologist's thoughts on psychological safety | Joseph Pelrine | 45m |
Psychology warns that most popular advice on psychological safety is unqualified and often wrong and points to concrete checks and techniques: prefer… | ||
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