Managing Technical Debt: How to Increase Team Retention, Boost Employee Morale, and Unleash Innovation!
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
Speaker(s): Christopher Amherst, Director, Data Management, University of Chicago
Competencies: Business and Financial AcumenRelationship Building
Elective Session
With the ever-growing need for data products, technical debt (and data debt) can be leveraged positively to provide timely insights into prospect engagement or donor segmentation.
However, like its financial counterpart, it can adversely affect staff morale, impair a team's velocity and impact overall productivity, if it is not managed.
In this session, we'll cover what technical debt is, differentiate the types and their effects on your strategies and leadership, and walk through techniques that you can use to empower your staff in assessing, mitigating, and planning your technical debt - so your team can focus on innovating.