2024-09-04 –, Main Room
We've been thinking about building and optimizing cross functional product teams (Engineering, Product, and UX) for decades. Our guiding philosophical principles have their roots in factory and process optimization, and those roots influence everything we do when trying to build and organize high performing teams. In this talk we'll break down those roots, and show how rather than framing product teams as a factory, we can more easily build high performing organizations if we treat them like professional sports teams. You'll leave with practical tips on how to think differently about your people, and how to optimize them as a team.
Brit is the VP of Engineering at System Initiative and has over a decade of experience scaling high-performing engineering teams. Prior to System Initiative, she was a member of the executive team at Hyland Software where she led global engineering teams responsible for building multiple cloud product lines and was most recently the Head of Cloud Engineering at Firebolt Analytics, where she was responsible for designing and executing the strategic direction of DevOps at Firebolt. Brit recently completed her Executive MBA from the University of Michigan and holds a degree in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.