Andy Norton

@andynorton
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Dad, DevOps, and Senior Engineering Manager at Prolific
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within my garden?
Thanks to the Better Value Sooner Safer Happier #bvssh folks for inviting me along to their meetup to about engineering practices, Team Topologies and Wardley Mapping https://youtu.be/Ro80hx0C7_s
What needs to be true? Patterns of engineering agility with Andy Norton

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πŸŸͺ Andy is a senior engineering manager, and over the last few years has worked at one of the UK's most successful unicorn start-ups, one of the big high-street retailers, and now at Y Combinator backed start-up Prolific, a company changing the way we do research online.

Every step of his journey he focuses on pragmatic ways of working, meaningful change that sticks, and working with teams to help them to get better at how they deliver.

Welcome to the #TTAcommunity Andy πŸ”—https://teamtopologies.com/all-tta/andy-norton

Andy Norton - TTA β€” Team Topologies

Andy is a senior engineering manager, and over the last few years has worked at one of the UK's most successful unicorn start-ups, one of the big high-street retailers, and now at Y Combinator backed start-up Prolific - a company changing the way we do research online.

Team Topologies

I’m always thinking of new ways to help people in their engineering strategy journey.

Up to today, I have been mainly communicating my own experience or helping others to share it. Recently, I was thinking how to encourage more people to share their experiences and help the community to learn from each other.

That’s why I started this discord server, to help tech leaders to have a space to:
πŸ‘‰ Ask questions about challenges they are facing.
πŸ‘‰ Share their experiences, context, and outcomes of their decisions.
πŸ‘‰ Share which tools help them the most to make those hard decisions when we need to design and execute our engineering strategy.

I hope to see you there πŸ˜„

https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/engineering-strategy-community-on

Engineering Strategy Community on Discord

Better late than never

Aleix's Learnings on Engineering Strategy

"Hi I'm Andy, I want to talk about a flywheel for engineering agility."

If you want to make a change that "sticks" you need to read this Slide Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/andynorton/2024-what-needs-to-be-true-patterns-of-engineering-agility?slide=6

They're taken from a talk Andy Norton held at:

πŸ“šLean Agile Manchester 28/02/2024

πŸ—£οΈWhat needs to be true? Patterns of engineering agility

#andynorton #TTAcommunity #agile

Lean Agile Manchester 28/02/2024 - What needs to be true? Patterns of engineering agility

What patterns and practices help us to scale in a sustainable way for the people behind the process? What capabilities do we need to be intentional about, and what techniques can we leverage? What needs to be true?

Speaker Deck

A week ago we promised to reveal a bit more on the #team #cognitiveload assessment tool we have been working on... Today we are very pleased to introduce... πŸ₯

Teamperature: Managing Cognitive Load for Healthier Teams

Teamperature will deliver data-driven #insights into your team's cognitive load drivers, enabling you to spot risky areas that need attention. A BETA version will soon be available for early access!

🍿 Stay tuned for more in the next few days! 🍿

I was made redundant from my job last week after 9 years. Last 2 years I've been in the software engineering department working on #Swift and #SwiftUI. If anyone is looking for a SwiftUI developer in the North West of England, let me know πŸ™ƒ
Had lots of fun speaking at Agile Cambridge last week about patterns, practices and what needs to be true. My slides can be found here https://speakerdeck.com/andynorton/what-needs-to-be-true-patterns-of-engineering-agility
What needs to be true? Patterns of engineering agility

What practices help us to scale in a sustainable way for the people behind the process? What capabilities do we need to be intentional about, and what techniques can we leverage? What needs to be true?

Speaker Deck
My biggest takeaway from Agile Cambridge is that adopting practices and behaviours that foster a more humane, generative culture is the only game in town.
I’m the last talk of the conference this afternoon! Lots to reflect on too after 3 days at Agile Cambridge.