Talks
Conference talks given by Spencer Norman
Occasionally I speak at conferences, meetups, or other events
Get Smarter with Every Incident
I had the opportunity to discuss building sustainable, proactive
incident-response practices on a Lead Dev panel in January 2025. With our
moderator Najla [https://www.linkedin.com/in/najlaelmachtoub/], Arjit
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjitsrivastava/…
Incident response before the incident
With high-profile outages striking increasingly frequently, incident prevention and readiness are critical, but not at the expense of speed or innovation.
LeadDev
Reducing the burden of incident response on your teams
Unlock system reliability through a culture of shared responsibility and collaboration
LeadDev
Talk: Critical Components of Successful Delegation
Learning how to delegate not just tasks, but problems, ideas, and business needs, will enable you to take on larger and more critical challenges without burning out.
Talk: Crafting effective 1:1s for distributed teams
Creating relationships with the individual humans on your distributed team is
difficult since you rarely get to see them in person! But a team is much less
likely to be effective and successful without a foundation of interpersonal
relationships and trust. How do you build those when you live zip co…
Talk: Panel - Cracking the cadence of your one-to-ones
One-to-ones provide perhaps your greatest opportunity to survey how well things are going with your team. In this session, we’ll be exploring the art of the one-to-one
