How to Debug Your Team

What is the focus of your work today?

I just joined Spring Health. Our mission is removing the barriers to mental health care. I've been here for less than a month now. It's a little startup with a tiny engineering team. Right now there's only seven of us. I'm working really closely with product engineering folks to make sure that we have a good solid handle on what product to build.

What is the motivation for your talk?

I'm a problem solver. I got into engineering because I love solving software problems and then the more senior I got, the more I realized that the things that were actually stopping companies from being effective were people problems, not tech problems.

How would you describe the persona and level of the target audience?

The target audience is someone on the senior end, either a senior engineer or a tech lead, who has looked at the team and gone, I wonder how we can go faster?" "We know we need to do, we know what our mission is, it is not tech that's slowing us back. Why is taking so long for us to get stuff done & ship new code in production?" Or maybe it's that tech lead who was explicitly being asked by product or other folks "Why is it taking so long to get things done?".

What do you want this persona to walk away with from your presentation?

An Approach improving the pace of delivery with a debugging mindset. Take it as a puzzle to solve. There is a cause to it and it's your purpose to try and understand and debug the cause of the slowness on your team.