Diana Initiative 2022-Michelle Brenner-Being Your Own Project Manager
Channel: The Diana Initiative
Date: 2022-12-28

Diana Initiative 2022
Las Vegas, NV USA

Being Your Own Project Manager

Senior technologists are often tasked with “dealing with ambiguity”. It can be daunting to get started with project management when you are used to getting tickets. This framework will walk through the entire project process, from ideation to presentation. This includes practical exercises like Impact Effort Matrix for planning and Success Statements for reporting as well as techniques for delighting stakeholders while keeping your teammates from burning out. Owning your project management means knowing you are doing the right work while having a broad impact.

Michelle Brenner

Netflix
Senior Software Engineer
https://michellebrenner.com

Michelle (she/her) is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience. She started in engineering support and now leads large-scale development projects. A Philadelphia native that currently calls Los Angeles home, she is an art school graduate and a self-taught engineer. During her career, she has enjoyed creating software to help others succeed, from artists to restaurateurs to fellow engineers. She uses her experience to advise entrepreneurs on topics from technical to team building. Michelle shares her engineering travails and passion for DEI through speaking at over 30 conferences, being a guest on multiple podcasts, and publishing in STMPE, 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, and online at LeadDev, dev.to, and OpenSource, with the hope others can learn from her challenges.