Mary ThengvallBe Flexible & Willing to IterateLessons Learned While Running A First-Year Conference: Part 37 min read·Mar 8, 2019----
Mary ThengvallLessons Learned while Running a First-Year Conference. Part 2: Setting BoundariesIn the first part of Lessons Learned while Running a First-Year Conference, I talked about how to strip down your conference to an MVP. In…7 min read·Feb 15, 2019----
Mary ThengvallDevRel Weekly Year One: Patterns, Projections, and PlansIt’s been just over one year since I launched DevRel Weekly and what a year it’s been! The Developer Relations industry has matured a lot…12 min read·Feb 9, 2019----
Mary ThengvallA Retrospective on REdeploy (or Lessons Learned while Running a First-Year Conference)It’s been just over 5 months since I finished one of the most time-intensive and complex projects I’ve ever been involved in. Most…5 min read·Jan 29, 2019----
Mary ThengvallRest. Organize. Prepare.I’m trying something new for the next 6 weeks. I’ve been doing this “prioritization shelf” for the last few months, with some variance in…3 min read·Dec 14, 2018----
Mary ThengvallinPlusPlus IdeasInclusion & Economic Efficiency Go Hand-in-Hand for Jen Gilbert, Tech Learning Manager at LyftIt’s no longer a question whether a diverse workplace is beneficial. Article after article has proven that a more diverse and inclusive…4 min read·Nov 2, 2018----
Mary ThengvallinPlusPlus Ideas3 Ways to Foster a Learning Environment in Your Engineering TeamLearning is an essential part of any career path, but especially that of a software engineer. As people responsible for continually…4 min read·Oct 31, 2018----
Mary ThengvallinPlusPlus IdeasHow to spin up and scale up learning in your organizationLearning as means to an end4 min read·Oct 18, 2018----
Mary Thengvall“Fail Fast, Fail Forward” is Great… Until it (Really) Isn’tAs I’ve worked with the DevOps community over the last decade, I’ve noticed a few patterns. One pattern many of you have heard me rant…4 min read·Jul 2, 2018----
Mary ThengvallOnward, to New Beginnings and Future PerformancesI re-evaluated my priorities this past week for the first time since my altMBA course ended and it was surprisingly easy to figure out what…4 min read·Jun 10, 2018----