DeveloperWeek Austin 2017

The Duo Security Engineering team has an Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) of 87.  This means that the vast majority of our team would recommend Duo as a great place to work.   People love working here, and it's not an accident.  

This talk will walk through 10 methods the Duo Engineering leaders currently use to create a highly effective, happy team.  I'll cover both the successful outcomes we've seen, and steps to replicate the actions that might resonate with you. 

At this point everyone is implementing Agile in some fashion. We have seen gains, but the world has evolved and “old Agile” is not good enough. We need to push the envelope further. The Agile Manifesto was created over 15 years ago. Most of the focus in the Agile/Scrum world since then has been to improve product delivery. In that time, we have improved idea development in the following ways: increased visibility, team continuous improvement, predictability and faster time-to-market. Now it is time to level up our agility. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will explore how traditional practices like projects, budgeting, leadership directives, release cadence, etc. impede organizational agility. By the end of the workshop, new Agile Manifesto statements will be defined to guide participants forward. David will share key practices required to get you to the next level of agility, and attendees will leave with actionable items they can implement to take their organization beyond Agile adoption to full Agile transformation.

With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, Security is the highest adoption barrier. In this presentation, you'll learn about: - DevSecOps - embedding security best practices at scale without slowing down the CI/CD pipeline. - The top security risks with containers and how to manage theses risks at scale. - Images, Builds, Registry, CI/CD, Hosts, Network, Storage, APIs, Monitoring/Logging, and Federation. - Improving container images security with reproducible builds - Automating security vulnerability and security policy scans for containers - Managing security updates at scale with automated Rolling, Canary, Blue/Green deployment strategies and A/B testing - DevSecOps metrics to track success and failure

Leveraging unique data that Woo has aggregated from its online platform that lets tech talent gauge their market value, the proposed speaker will share future trends on what developers are focusing on for their next career steps. His presentation will show a rich array of real-world data charts displaying the following: -top developer languages driving highest pay / developer languages on the decline -top skills related to grow areas (i.e.: machine learning and analytics (AI), AR/VR, Deep learning, IoT, Robotics, Data science) -regional migratory shifts -driving factors for developers (what really matters most) -tips and considerations (based on unique data)

This presentation was originally created to address portfolio company executives from the 18 top VCs in Silicon Valley that Swing is partnered with. They'd asked us to come up with an educational piece that would help young company executives understand the different strategies for recruiting and retaining the best in design and development talent. In this presentation, I will discuss the tradeoffs of each path to product, from hiring internally to using contractors, both nearshore and offshore. We'll talk about strategies and tactics for each of the avenues, and what we've seen work well, and otherwise. This is an objective lecture that presents the different situations that hit young companies, and, leveraging my/our experience with early stage companies, it highlights various solutions and approaches to these issues that all startups and growing companies inevitably face.

There are no bad programming languages. The choice is just a matter of the well-known Speed-Quality-Price triangle and the particular business needs of the software product owner. However, this choice must be made correctly, and this report is here to facilitate it by means of a detailed comparison of the most widespread languages:• PHP: reliability, simplicity, and restrictions• Ruby: flexibility, power, and speed• NodeJS: new horizons in Web development• Prospects of Web newcomers• If you already have a Web product, should you switch technologies and languages?Whether you are a software owner whose Web product will be started from scratch or you already have a product that might require changes, you'll find plenty of essential insights to make the right choice for your particular case.

Cars are incredibly difficult to manufacture. The fracture between IT and Business has forced a lot of analytical development down the drain in the past. However, with current capabilities for data extraction, analysis and computation, vehicle production is being continuously improved upon. This talk will focus on how analysis and questioning have helped development managers bring solutions to difficult problems in the manufacturing sphere

Growing an engineering team is all about trust and tradeoffs - what do you prioritize on any given day and how do you successfully empower your team. 
Hire right and you'll build an empowered self sustaining organization.  Get things wrong and you could wind up spending your time fighting unnecessary battles. 
In this session we'll cover employees 1-100 and the thinking that empowers scale and success.

Build at the speed of vision.