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Francisco Trindade. 7 Oct 26

Wednesday 7 October : 12.30 - 13.15 AEST (Melb time)
Tuesday 6 October: 20.30 - 21.15 EDT (New York time)
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Leading Effective Software Teams  
Systems Thinking for Engineering Managers

Francisco Trindade will join us from New York to share insights into his recently published book. We'll finish with an open question/answer/discussion.

As an engineering manager, you are asked to deliver the product, keep the technology healthy, and grow the people. The usual approach treats these as separate problems with separate playbooks, and it leaves you overworked and delivering worse results. This book shows how they are connected and how to shape your role by designing the system where all three come together.

Leading Effective Software Teams offers a practical systems thinking perspective for an industry where AI is reshaping how software gets built and effectiveness matters more than headcount. Rather than prescribing rituals to copy, it teaches you how to think: how to find the constraint limiting your team, know when to act and when to stay out of the way, and how to focus your attention where it changes outcomes.

It's a distillation of 20 years of trying to build effective teams through systems thinking. A framework built on old principles rather than new trends, one that has held together for a long time and will keep holding, whether the machines take over or not.

"I wrote it for the people I wish I could have handed it to years ago: engineers stepping into leadership, and managers in their first few years, figuring out the job in real time. If that's you, or someone on your team, I think it'll earn its place on your shelf."

Francisco Trindade : Vice President of Software Engineering, Braze
Francisco is an engineering leader with of experience in many places and situations. He has work as a technology consultant for ThoughtWorks, assisting teams all over the world, from startups in the UK to major enterprises in Australia. Along the way, he has founded companies and led engineering organizations, gaining valuable insights into managing teams in diverse settings. Francisco is passionate about helping engineers collaborate more effectively.

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