What Your Engineering Board Slides Are Missing

At the end of Q4 in one of the worst years for small businesses, the same conversation will be had in every startup’s boardroom across the country:

How are we sustaining the growth of our business?

While most board decks will include business metrics like ARR, churn rates, and cash in the bank, these metrics only provide a snapshot of business health. They don’t speak to the strategic priority of how you plan to deliver real value. They also don’t illustrate engineering’s ability to execute on product timelines.

Alexandra Paredes, VP of Engineering at Code Climate, will run through her method of communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders in the board room. She’ll cover:

• Representing both the speed and direction of your engineering department’s work
• Summarizing engineering challenges and opportunities
• Visualizing improvement against OKRs quarter over quarter

Armed with this framework, an engineering leader can illustrate the necessity of their department and engage senior leadership on the best way to endure and thrive during these unprecedented times.

Registrants will receive Alexandra Paredes’ board deck template, along with notes and a recording of the talk.