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Why Your Team Has Slowed Down, Why That's Worse than You Think, and How to Fix it

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Edmund Jorgensen discusses how and why engineering teams slow down, showing how attempts to manage costs in the face of slowdowns can death-spiral into worse delays with deadly economic consequences.

Bio

Edmund Jorgensen is a co-founder at Hut 8 Labs. Before Hut 8 Labs he worked at HubSpot, TripAdvisor, and a number of startups (some of them also with camel-cased names), where he led teams, designed and coded high-traffic systems, and carried the pager. He is especially interested in the operational and economic aspects of software.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Nov 27, 2014

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