I'm gettin' too old for this sh*t
Everything old is new again, but nobody noticed
Meet the Team
VP of Engineering @ Gophr
Thomas Bradford
About Me
- Have lived in Switzerland for over a year
- Lived in Berlin for the previous 12 years
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Grew up in the United States before that
- Started coding when I was 12
- Started leading teams when I was in my 30s
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Started feeling as though I were in the movie Groundhog Day a few years into that
- Warning: I'm from Boston
- Warning: I'm going to use the word "agile"
Prologue
Learning how to dance
Leadership
Can we manage to be worse at it?
Leadership
Systems of people?
Leadership
The cult of personality
The Team
But there is an "I" in "Pie"
The Team
Hiring Tips
The Team
The wisdom of people who don't know anything
The Team
An aside
Creating Value
It’s only technical debt if you plan to pay it back
Creating Value
The big pile of crap tech stack
Creating Value
Are you done yet?
The Organization
Want a career you can be proud of? Become proficient at saying "No"
The Organization
Focus, focus, focus!
The Organization
Siloes are for storing grain
The Organization
Projects are an act of desperation
The Organization
What's good for the gander...
Epilogue
How would you go about doing your job if you weren't afraid of losing it?
Ok, Now You Can Yell At Me
Getting Too Old
By Thomas Bradford
