Most companies have a contingent of engineers who are upset about the lack of a clear engineering strategy. If you dig into solving their “missing strategy” problem, you’ll quickly run into an even bigger challenge: there’s little agreement about what engineering strategy is or which problems it should solve.
In this presentation, we’ll focus on:
- What problems engineering strategy is particularly suited to solve
- Examples of real engineering strategies I’ve encountered in my career
- How to rollout engineering strategy both with and without a mandate from your head of engineering
- Troubleshooting why your strategy rollout isn’t working
Speaker
Will Larson
CTO @Carta, Author of "An Elegant Puzzle", "Staff Engineer", and "The Engineering Executive's Primer", Previously at @Calm, @Stripe, and @Uber
Will Larson is CTO at Carta, and has been a software engineering leader at Calm, Stripe, and Uber. He is the author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and The Engineering Executive's Primer.
