Jonathan Rigby
Director of Engineering, Qatalog
London, United Kingdom
Jonathan is an experienced engineering manager and leader. A former developer who moved into a Tech Lead role nearly 15 years ago he has a wide range of experience of managing a variety of teams both onshore and offshore, across a number of industries. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Management Institute and a strong advocate of employee engagement initiatives. In his spare time he is a keen Open Water Swimmer and competes in an occasional triathlon.
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Cracking the Code: Engineering Leaders and the AI Revolution - Your Team Deserves a Co-pilot too!
AI is the hot topic in software engineering right now. Engineers are leveraging cutting-edge tools such as ChatGPT, Co-pilot, and other alternatives to streamline code creation, propose solutions to architectural challenges, and generate comprehensive test suites.
But what about Engineering Leaders; how can we use this emerging technology?
My presentation aims to shed light on the untapped benefits of generative AI tools for engineering managers in areas of recruitment, performance management, stakeholder management, technical decision making and all-round day to day running of your team.
When you do this, it will free you up to focus on the more challenging aspect of engaging your teams in delivery quality software to your customers.
How I use AI to manage my software team
AI is the hot topic in software engineering right now. Engineers are leveraging cutting-edge tools such as ChatGPT, Co-pilot, and other alternatives to streamline code creation, propose solutions to architectural challenges, and generate comprehensive test suites.
But what about Engineering Leaders; how can we use this emerging technology?
My presentation aims to shed light on the untapped benefits of generative AI tools for engineering managers in areas of recruitment, performance management, stakeholder management, technical decision making and all-round day to day running of your team.
When you do this, it will free you up to focus on the more challenging aspect of engaging your teams in delivery quality software to your customers.
Metrics Mania. When our obsession with measurement can harm our software teams
We love numbers, don’t we? If we are good managers, it’s natural that we want our people and our teams to get better. Incremental improvement is the mantra of agile philosophy and what better way of doing that than measuring things? Velocity, bug counts, MMTR, cycle time etc.
However, there can be a darker side to metrics that we can easily slip into it if we are not careful. What starts off as a way to encourage and motivate a team leads to behaviour that is counter to what we want - stifling innovation and creativity as adherence to the metric becomes the prime driver.
In this talk we look at common metrics we measure as tech leads, what they should and should not be used for and how, by developing a closer relationship with our team, we can dispense with metrics for something less harmful and more effective.
Jonathan Rigby
Director of Engineering, Qatalog
London, United Kingdom
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