Ender Yüksel
Sr. Director of Engineering at SimCorp | PhD in Computer Science
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Ender Yüksel is experienced in leading and improving global technology organizations. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience, that is probably why you are reading these lines.
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From Great Resignation to Not-So-Great Layoffs - a survivor's handbook
It just feels like yesterday when record high rates of voluntary resignations were being observed and especially technology companies were having difficulties in finding talent. The period that is known as the Great Resignation, starting in mid 2021, is now being replaced by a period of layoffs. From giant corporates to start ups, the layoffs are affecting a significant number of us working in tech.
In this session, we would like to discuss how to deal with tech layoffs, from different perspectives, aiming to help each other in helping our impacted colleagues, organizations, and eventually ourselves. We will go through the psychology and the emotions of the dismissed employee, the line manager, and the survivors.
Daily astonishments from tech leaders' ivory tower
Culture is considered as one of the pillars of DevOps. Leaders in an organization need to be evangelists of DevOps culture, and avoid the ivory tower pattern. In this talk, we will discuss the consequences of being detached from the reality of the work.
In this session, we are covering:
* DevOps, Culture, and Ivory Tower
* Examples of astonishments, below I list a few as an appetizer:
--- Why doesn't anyone speak up?
--- Why don't people ask for feedback?
--- This is the most exciting work, why didn’t any team pull it?
--- Why doesn’t anyone do "name-a-good-practice" ?
--- We have regular time-off for improvements, but no improvements happen!
*How do you end up in an ivory tower? A closer look on the problematic areas that constitute the root causes of common problems. Below is an unexhausted list headings:
--- Tech leaders' setting Unrealistic Timelines
--- Lack of Understanding of Technical Debt
--- Overemphasis on Metrics
--- Disconnect with Users
--- Tech leaders' Resistance to Change
--- Lack of Feedback
* Importance of tech leaders remaining grounded in the day-to-day work and communicating regularly with the doers
20 Continuous Learning Initiatives for Agile Teams
These days many large companies are experiencing various types of transformations (from waterfall to agile, from agile to scaled-agile, from a CMMI-world to a light-weight governed world, from a PMO organization to something else, and so on) in their IT and/or software development organizations. All these transformation efforts need to be supported by continuous learning tenets. As a popular example, agile transformation needs a culture change that fosters continuous learning. As another yet concrete example, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) that is fully or partly embraced in large/global companies such as Cisco, HP, Lego, Intel, Nordea, Philips, SimCorp outlines certain initiatives such as Communities of Practice, and advises the ScrumXP teams to try Team Inside-Outs and Book&Coffee Breaks.
In this talk, we will visit 20 tangible continuous learning initiatives that can be applied to agile teams. All these methods are used with three different teams on a scaled agile (SAFe) setting, during the last year, hence you will also get information from the trenches on how such initiatives are perceived. My intention is, after this talk you will be able to try something new with your teams that would hopefully cause a good change.
This talk may seem to target agile coaches, scrum masters, development managers, etc. who can influence their teams and lead by example. In reality, any software development professional can benefit from the numerous ways of continuous learning and contaminate their teams with the new good habits.
Ender Yüksel
Sr. Director of Engineering at SimCorp | PhD in Computer Science
Copenhagen, Denmark
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