I had a great time at #StaffPlusLondon. I'm still a zombie at home trying to recover from the trip. It's so hot and humid here so one of my plants didn't survive my absence.

I really loved #StaffPlusLondon, and then I woke up on Thursday morning a complete zombie who was incapable of making decisions or producing much in the way of human language 😅

Luckily I know by now that my tiny introvert brain always crashes hard after conferences, so I'd planned out a couple of days of alone time to recover.

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A bit late to the party but #StaffPlusLondon was really nice. Great talks, great venue... Looking forward to the next one!

It took #StaffPlusLondon but I’ve finally signed up here. Only took what felt like a year 🙈

It’s a wrap! Thanks so much to the organization of #StaffPlusLondon and @whereistanya, and all Awesome speakers today and yesterday 🙇 🙇 🙇 !!
It’s been a great experience to be here, and there’s so much information I’ll be taking home and process in the upcoming weeks.
And also thanks to everyone I had insightful and fun conversations with during the breaks, both in person and here online 🙇. I’m thankful to have met all of you!

Until next year!

I had such a great time at #StaffPlusLondon. So many new perspectives and food for thought by such great speakers. If a conference managed to get a group of engineers excited about documentation that's a testament to the quality

Takeaway: deliberately setting goals helps with your primary job as staff+ engineer #StaffPlusLondon

Last talk! 🥲 Sabrina Leandro on Setting goals as a Staff+ engineer #StaffPlusLondon

Takeaways: Understand the system you’re building and understand the users. Iterate. #StaffPlusLondon

What's visible isn't what defines people. Incredible talk by Liem Pham on building inclusive teams #StaffPlusLondon

Now on: Shweta Bhandare on Maps to medicines: one map to an Atlas #StaffPlusLondon

Takeaway: diversity numbers don’t mean a lot. Success is defined by people helping each other grow, trust each other and celebrate each other. #StaffPlusLondon

Last section of the conference is starting! Liem Pham on Building a diverse and inclusive guild from the ground up #StaffPlusLondon

Kaitlyn Tierney with a Librarian’s guide to Documentation #StaffPlusLondon

Standardization is not a goal in itself, make sure you know what the real goal is!

An important reminder from Samantha Schaevitz at #StaffPlusLondon

Now on: Samantha Schaevitz on The Dark Side of Standardization #StaffPlusLondon

Takeaway: keep small focused metrics, be transparant (trust again), communicate in a way that works with the company, and document! #StaffPlusLondon

Had a great lunch and some fresh air, which means it’s time for another round of talks.
Kicking off with Michael Tweed on Scaling your influence when you can only be in one place at once. #StaffPlusLondon

Had a blast talking about creating alignment at #StaffPlusLondon. Here's my (very minimal) slides https://speakerdeck.com/marianeum/building-a-shared-vision-creating-alignment-across-autonomous-teams

Now Aish Dahal on Working Sideways #StaffPlusLondon