title	conference	date
From friction to function: Strengthening the product-engineering alliance	LeadDev New York 2025	2025-10-15
Concrete methods and outcomes: a reproducible balanced prioritization matrix that maps stories by business impact and technical sustainability, a disciplined… Talk on
Architecture and Organization	Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2022	2022-09-06
Examples from Avvo, Spotify, Adobe and Microsoft show organizational shape driving software and vice versa, with concrete outcomes: a monolith causing… Talk on
From Developer to Lead	ConFoo 2021	2021-02-24
Career transition from individual contributor developer to a lead role, covering the challenges and changes involved in taking on leadership responsibilities… Talk in French on
Building and conveying vision	LeadDev Live 2020	2020-04-07
Panel lays out concrete practices: a three-piece: people product profit framework to tie vision to business outcomes, treating vision as a living document with… Talk on
Leading Distributed Teams	Stretch Conference 2020	2020-02-13
Four concrete problems and fixes: Conway’s Law forces org charts into software unless you apply the reverse Conway maneuver and reorganize teams; Amdahl-style… Talk on
How does salary work?	LeadDev Berlin 2019	2019-11-04
Budget planning follows a waterfall budget locked in Q4 where midyear benchmarking (Radford-style) and finance forecasts dictate hiring cadence and quarterly… Talk on
Using Agile Techniques to Build a More Inclusive Team	The Lead Developer London 2018	2018-07-02
Claims concrete steps to increase psychological safety: run a post-it joint working agreement in first one-on-ones (ten–15 minutes silent brainstorming, photo… Talk on
Fail Fast, Fail Smart, Succeed	The Lead Developer UK 2017	2017-06-08
Describes building and launching "Spotify Now" where a New Zealand cohort test shows early promise then a full press rollout to 1% cohorts in UK SE DE flips… Talk on
The right ingredients for your perfect team	The Lead Developer New York 2017	2017-02-13
Argues that deliberate strategy beats buzzwords and gives concrete hiring choices: build a GPU and multi‑core image engine with a domain‑specific language or… Talk on
Creating a culture of continuous improvement	AgileByExample 2016	2016-10-10
Leadership joins a scale‑up and spends four months meeting every team, inventorying problems, then replaces arbitrary ship dates with metrics-driven… Talk on
Microservices at Spotify	GOTO Berlin 2015	2015-12-03
Spotify runs about 810 active backend services powering roughly 75 million monthly active users, built so small teams can rewrite a service every few… Talk on
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