Every team has at least one go-to person that gets others out of sticky situations! Are they being recognised for contributions to building a cohesive team, or getting bogged down in work that isn’t part of their job description? Let’s get stuck into the concept of glue work, and how handling it properly can help your team bond.
This talk is geared towards anyone who works with other people! It’s a love letter to those engaging in tasks that often go unacknowledged, and an invitation to those who experience lots of focus time and visible credit. This session revisits the concept of Glue Work as introduced by Tanya Reilly in her talk “Being Glue” from 2019, and presents a five-step framework for more intentional management of such work.
I will talk about:
A theatre kid that fell into software engineering via the unlikely pathways of cutting her keyboard chops on the OG Microbees, tinkering with tables and iframes in GeoCities, and filming and editing drama and dance films throughout her partially home-schooled formative years, Jade has been earning money by writing code since 2007.
Jade is passionate about the why and the details of what she builds, and while this sometimes can result in interesting side-quests, it often serves her well in complex feature builds, bug-hunting, and troubleshooting.
Primarily a back-end developer, PHP and Laravel are her current bread and butter tools, building a mission critical hospitality ordering platform with FoodByUs in Sydney.
Jade enjoys learning and sharing knowledge and connections at tech meetups and conferences, and does not need to be asked twice to sing at karaoke.
