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Tom Ridge

Tom Ridge

Staff engineer at Culture Amp

Adelaide, Australia

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Tom Ridge is a father of 4, an engineer, and long time remote worker and leader.

When he does find a scrap of time, he's known to run a D&D game or three.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Software
  • Agile software development
  • Software Engineering Management
  • ruby
  • ruby on rails
  • Elixir
  • Engineering Culture & Leadership
  • Programming
  • object oriented programming
  • Learning Programming
  • Remote work
  • agile
  • Managing Remote Teams
  • Software Engineering
  • software architecure
  • Software Craftsmanship
  • Agile Leadership
  • Management
  • Agile Management
  • People Management

How to (remotely) win friends and influence people

Tired of your boss telling you to get back into the office?

Want to have an amazing impact across the workplace in the comfort of your trackies?

What if I told you that you could lead impactful, supportive, and effective teams, without giving up the commute from your bedroom to your (home) office?

What if I told you that you could grow your own career and influence in your organisation, whilst still making time for growing those tomatoes out the back?

Come learn how to maximise your impact as a remote leader or team member. We'll take a walk through different techniques and tools to help you prove remote collaboration is just as productive, how to build strong cross-functional relationships remotely, and how to build empowered and productive teams.

Whilst you'll get the most out of this session if you already work remotely, or are interested in doing so, folks who prefer the office side of life will still come away with ideas, tips, and techniques that will not only help their remote colleagues, but themselves.

Wrong by Design: How We Ditched Estimates and Shipped 10x Faster

Estimates suck.

What if I said you didn't have to play endless rounds of estimation poker? What if you just accepted you were wrong?

We spend hours trying to get our estimates right but we inevitably miss the mark resulting in stressed teams, stakeholder conflict and low-quality software. How do we make it so being wrong actually makes it right?

Come find out how just one estimate, a little math, and accepting that we're always wrong changed our team. It turned us from a team that released twice in a year, to one that released ten times in as many months.

You'll leave this session with actionable advice on how your team can say goodbye to planning poker, and how you can give accurate deadlines, all whilst still being wrong. We'll see the positive impacts these techniques can have on your team, your culture and the software you build.

Tom Ridge

Staff engineer at Culture Amp

Adelaide, Australia

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