Dunya Kirkali
Fostering decision making based on the Scientific Method
Leiden, The Netherlands
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Dünya Kırkalı is an engineering leader and software engineer whose journey spans building mobile apps, web services, data pipelines, and visualizations across diverse industries and teams. Along the way, this breadth of experience shaped him into a true generalist. This generalist perspective became his greatest asset when leading engineers from different disciplines, ultimately guiding him toward the field he truly fell in love with: engineering management. Left to his own devices, Dünya enjoys putting on a Joe Pass record and reflecting on ways to create tools and techniques to help engineering managers discover their own global maxima.
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EM Metrics: Trigger, Inspire and Influence
Most of us have a background in Science/Engineering. We learn about the scientific method however we still rely on experience, gut feeling, etc.
This talk is about how we can use data to trigger, inspire and influence our own thinking as well as others'
Your organization as a Graph
We think of companies as hierarchies: people form teams, teams sit in departments, and departments belong to divisions. But does this mental model help us understand how work actually gets done?
Not really.
We create cross-functional groups and work streams around projects to foster collaboration. In extreme cases, we even go through reorgs and layoffs to help improve the structure. But it's still difficult to quantify how much all of these initiatives help because we lack a way to visualize how work flows through the organization.
What if we could map who is involved in a project, which teams frequently interact, and where the bottlenecks are? What if we could identify pockets where knowledge accumulates, as well as the areas that are left in the dark? What if we could leverage the people who act as bridges and support those who unintentionally create isolation?
With such insights, we can enhance our organizational design by bringing teams that need to collaborate closer together while removing the barriers that hamper their efficiency. We could even take it a step further and "test" organizational changes before implementing them by simulating how information would flow in the new structure.
In this talk we'll explore how visualizing your organization as a graph can uncover hidden structures, reveal communication pathways, and help you build better products.
Dunya Kirkali
Fostering decision making based on the Scientific Method
Leiden, The Netherlands
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