Location:

Level: 
Intermediate
9:00am - 4:00pm

Prerequisites

None

Tutorial: Scaling technology and organizations together, a CTO’s guide

Successful Internet companies are built on a foundation of excellent culture, efficient organization, and solid technology. As a company needs to scale, all of these parts of the foundation need to grow and scale with it. This tutorial will provide a deep dive into modern best practices at innovative companies in Silicon Valley for scaling culture, organization, and technology.

Driven primarily by the presenter's experience ranging from small Valley startups to Google and eBay, we will learn about:

  • Organizing engineering teams for innovation and velocity 
  • Maintaining a culture of learning and risk-taking 
  • Attracting and retaining excellent engineering talent 
  • Developing and sustaining effective engineering processes and methodologies 
  • Architecting scalable, high-quality, resilient software systems

We will conclude with recommendations on how to start implementing changes to your own organizational team structure, processes, and development practices.

Tracks

Wednesday Jun 10

Thursday Jun 11

Friday Jun 12