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Infrastructure & Ops Hour: Building Successful Engineering Communities with Emily Webber

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Join us for a special conversation on building successful communities with Sam Newman and Agile consultant and coach Emily Webber. They’ll chat about the benefits of communities of practice, which include accelerating professional development, breaking down organizational silos, enabling knowledge sharing and management, building better practices, helping to hire and retain staff, and making people happier. Then they’ll open the floor for questions.

This is a chance for you to ask Sam and Emily anything you want about their own career journeys or about using communities to facilitate good collaboration between teams. They’ll spend a few minutes covering the trends that are influencing infrastructure, then tell you what you need to know to stay ahead of the curve.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Explore the origins of, need for, and challenges around team collaboration
  • See what’s coming next for infrastructure and ops

This live event is for you because...

  • You want the chance to ask Sam Newman and Emily Webber your questions about how to get started with communities of practice.
  • You’re looking for ways to improve your team culture.

Prerequisites

  • Come with your questions for Sam Newman and Emily Webber
  • Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

December 1, 2021, at 8:00am PT / 11:00am ET

  • Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
  • Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)

Your Hosts and Guests

Sam Newman

Sam Newman is a technologist focusing on the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery—three topics which seem to overlap frequently. He provides consulting, training, and advisory services to startups and large multinational enterprises alike, drawing on his more than 20 years in IT as a developer, sysadmin, and architect. Sam is the author of the best-selling Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, both from O’Reilly, and is also an experienced conference speaker.

Emily Webber

Emily Webber is a London-based independent Agile consultant, coach, trainer, and speaker. She focuses on creating the right environments for people and teams to succeed by enabling effective collaboration, Agile ways of working, embedding communities of practice, and leading initiatives for growing skills and capabilities—all of which help create sustainable change. Previously, she was the head of Agile delivery at the Government Digital Service, where she built, developed, and led a team of about 40 Agile delivery professionals. At GDS, she created the widely followed approach and maturity model for communities of practice and subsequently authored Building Successful Communities of Practice.

Emily is a popular keynote speaker, blogger (at Emilywebber.co.uk), and event organizer. Her speaking appearances include Mind the Product London, GOTO Copenhagen, Agile Testing Days Berlin, YOW! Australia, and Craft Budapest. She also set up Agile in Leeds, Agile on the Bench, and Agile in the Ether, among others. Her experiences on the event circuit prompted her to create the Diversity Charter.

Skill covered

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