How to build a data-driven organization your team will love

Data is a double-edged sword – when used well, it can help us challenge assumptions, move beyond anecdotes to see broader trends, and be more fair in our comparisons. But when it’s used poorly, it can become an excuse for bad decisions (in the worst case, when a leader stack-ranks engineers by lines of code written and fires the bottom quartile; there are SO many things wrong with that approach).

It’s a challenge to know how to use data well – and it’s even harder to figure out how to bring your team and organization on a journey to being more data-driven together. Especially for leaders who are human-centric, there can be worries about the risk of mis-use – even if you know you’ll use the data well, could someone else use it to make poor decisions?

To help us learn more about this, we’re bringing in someone with extensive experience in using data to support people. Huanhuan Huang is an engineering leader with experience at Atlassian, SafetyCulture, SuperObvious, and now Multitudes. Across organizations, she’s known as the person to bring in when you want to build a high-performing team, and when you want to do it in a way that supports people. She’s used different types of data to help her do that – from product metrics to engineering ones – and she’s had lots of conversations with executives and teams about how to use data well.

Huanhuang will speak to topics including:

• Why you might want to build a data-driven organization
• The genuine worries that she’s seen individual contributors have when it comes to data in organizations
• Her tips for how to introduce data in a way that supports people and also helps you accomplish your organizational goals – including examples of how she’s used both product data and engineering data in her previous roles
• A vision of what the future can look like when people are using data in human-centric ways

We’ll have plenty of time for Q&A with Huanhuang too – you’re welcome to send us your questions in advance or bring them on the day of the event.

About the speaker
Huanhuan Huang, currently serving as the CTO at Multitudes, is an accomplished woman tech leader with extensive experience in both startups and scale-ups. Her leadership journey includes pivotal roles at Thoughtworks, Atlassian, and notably SafetyCulture, where she spearheaded large teams through intricate challenges. Huanhuan was instrumental in SafetyCulture's evolution from a nascent startup to a celebrated scale-up, marking its status as one of Australia's premier unicorns. Honored in BFSI100 magazine as one of the top 100 IT leaders in Australia, she masterfully blends strategic insight with technical expertise, propelling innovation and growth across the tech landscape.