Sven Peters
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Jfokus3 editions2016–2021
- JNation2 editions2022–2026
- JCON EUROPE2 editions2023–2025
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on a stage with
- Helen Scottonce
who talks about the same things
- Daniel Terhorst-North42 talks
- Justin Reock25 talks
- Clare Sudbery14 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
- Jakub Nabrdalik20 talks
- Sander Hoogendoorn35 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| AI agents won’t save your productivity– human–agent collaboration will | JNation 2026 | 2026-05-26 |
Argument: AI agents alone rarely increase business impact unless tied to real engineering bottlenecks and measured outcomes. Atlassian builds small… | ||
| Recalibrate - How AI shakes up software team | JCON EUROPE 2025 | 2025-05-12 |
AI moves from autocomplete to running targeted agents that actually change workflows: Atlassian measures 51 minutes saved per day with simple copilots vs 105… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s% t done | Build Stuff 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Shows concrete Atlassian fixes: an internal flaky test detector that reruns failures, marks flakes, comments PRs and alerts Slack to save ~15 minutes per… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Teams report concrete wins: a morning Punit bot reminder cuts average PR time from three days to 1.2 days; a homegrown flaky-test detector reruns and… | ||
| Developer Joy – How Great Teams Get S%*t Done | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Software teams measure and improve developer experience with concrete changes: a flaky test monitor reruns failing tests, flags and skips >100 flaky tests last… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done | DevWorld 2024 | 2024-02-29 |
Claims concrete wins: PR wait time falls from three days to 1.2 days after adding a morning ping bot (Punit bot) and smaller pull requests, code review… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done ( Closing Keynote) | Voxxed Days Ioannina 2024 | 2024-02-23 |
Teams at Atlassian measure and fix concrete blockers: a bot cuts pull‑request latency from 3 days to 1.2 days, a flaky test detector reruns failures, comments… | ||
| Developer Joy: How great teams get s%*t done | Øredev 2023 | 2023-11-08 |
Confluence teams build a flaky test detector that reruns a failing test up to four times, auto-marks flakes as skipped, leaves a PR comment and sends a Slack… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Shows concrete changes at Atlassian: teams adopt coding guidelines and prewritten QA test plans, dedicate 10% time to developer productivity, and run demos and… | ||
| Developer Joy – How Great Teams Get s%*t Done | Infobip Shift 2023 | 2023-09-18 |
Argues that improving developer joy raises real productivity and gives concrete fixes: a flaky test detector that reruns failures, marks tests as skipped… | ||
| Developer Joy – How Great Teams Get s%*t Done | JCON Europe 2023 | 2023-06-20 |
Claims that developer joy rises when teams cut tech debt, shorten review wait, and measure the right signals; Atlassian builds a flaky test detector that… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done | Craft Conference 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
History of Taylorism frames the problem and the talk prescribes concrete fixes: start with DORA metrics and Compass, measure developer joy with a survey that… | ||
| Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done | Voxxed Days Zurich 2023 | 2023-03-16 |
Argues that developer joy comes from measurable improvements in quality, flow, and customer value, with concrete examples: 42% of developer time spent fighting… | ||
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Great Developer Career | J-Fall 2022 | 2022-11-03 |
Maps career paths: clear definitions—staff engineer works across teams on code, principal pairs tech with product roadmap, distinguished advises execs and is… | ||
| The Effective Software Architect - Work Smarter, not Harder | Global Software Architecture Summit 2022 | 2022-10-03 |
Conversations across Atlassian, MongoDB and Manfred surface concrete habits: prioritise simplicity over cleverness, show code to juniors as a canary test… | ||
| The Effective Developer - Work Smarter, Not Harder | JNation 2022 | 2022-06-07 |
Advocates concrete habits: enforce formatting as a team with linters, run disciplined code review rules (criticize ideas not people, don’t spoon‑feed), and… | ||
| The Effective Developer - Work Smarter, Not Harder | Jfokus 2021 | 2021-02-09 |
Argues developers must trade raw output for actual impact by adopting concrete practices: use canary tests with junior devs to prove code simplicity, enforce… | ||
| The Effective Developer - Work Smarter, Not Harder. | Devoxx Ukraine 2020 | 2020-11-05 |
Argues effectiveness beats raw efficiency and gives concrete practices: enforce team code with automatic formatting and meaningful names, run peer reviews… | ||
| Less Process, more Guidance with a Team Playbook | Jfokus 2019 | 2019-02-04 |
A practical how-to for replacing one-size-fits-all process with a library of tactics: 26 plays (examples: OKRs (2–3 objectives, 1–3 KRs, score 0.7–1.0), DACI… | ||
| Rise of the Machines | swampUP 2017 | 2017-05-24 |
Ten years from Hudson automated builds the talk shows concrete automations that cut repetitive work: Agent Charlie installs and configures new developer… | ||
| Keynote: Coding Culture | Codemotion Milan 2016 | 2016-11-23 |
Atlassian describes specific culture moves: quarterly 24‑hour hackathons called ShipIt that produce working prototypes (one used Google Translate), an iPad… | ||
| Interview to Sven Peters | Codemotion Milan 2016 | 2016-11-23 |
Claim: company culture and customer focus beat chasing the newest frameworks; a medium technology stack plus a motivated team and clear customer understanding… | ||
| Rise of the Machines - Automate Your Development | Build Stuff 2016 | 2016-11-16 |
A catalog of concrete automations: machine-installed dev environments via Agent Charlie; smart-commit and branch-key integration that updates issues… | ||
| Coding Culture | Jfokus 2016 | 2016-02-08 |
Claims concrete practices: Atlassian runs regular hack days that produce working prototypes and even a hidden Whiskey Bar built in 24 hours, and follows weekly… | ||
| How To Do Kick-Ass Software Development | JavaDay 2013 | 2013-10-19 |
Practical tips and outcomes: use cheap paper prototypes and “fake it till you make it” experiments; putting an in‑app feedback button yields 4x more feedback… | ||
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