Manager Readme
A working note on expectations, communication, meetings, 1:1s, and how I try to show up as a leader.
About
Software engineering leader focused on building high-performing teams and empowering product development organizations to deliver at scale.
Deep technical expertise, experience with large-scale SaaS platforms, and a commitment to continuous improvement drive a leadership approach centered on clarity, accountability, and creating systems where engineers excel.
Archive
Selected Writing
One on One Meetings
A concise list of principles for useful, human, actionable 1:1s.
Business Metrics for Humans
A plain-language glossary for engineering leaders learning SaaS and business metrics.
Reading List for Technical Leaders
Books and references that shaped my thinking about software leadership.
Papers and talks
Publications
Posters & Miscellany
- Steve Neely, Matthew Stabeler and Paddy Nixon "SensorMash: Exploring System Fidelity through Sensor Mashup." Poster at 6th International Conference Pervasive Computing, Sydney, Australia, May 2008.
- Steve Neely, Graham Williamson, Hui Zhang, Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson "Location Detection with Smart Zigbee Sensors." Poster at The 2nd Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks Research in Ireland (WiSen 2007), Ireland, June 2007.
- Graeme Stevsonson, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon "Construct -- A Decentralised Context Infrastructure for Ubiquitou Computing Environments." IT&T Annual Conference, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2005.
Invited Talks and Presentations
- Steve Neely and Steve Stolt "Continuous Delivery? Easy! Just change everything. (Well, maybe it isn't that easy)" at Agile 2013, Nashville, TN, August 2013.
- Steve Neely and Steve Stolt "Continuous Delivery? It's Easy! Just change all your engineering practices" at RallyON 2013, Boulder, CO, May 2013.
- Ryan Martens and Steve Neely "Developing Quality in 1 Week or Less," the BMC DevOps Leadership Podcast, December 2012.
- Steve Neely "Culture of Quality: Move Fast and Break Things" at Boulder Resilience Engineering the Web (BREW).
- Steve Neely and Ryan Scott "Culture of Quality - Behavior & Test Driven Development" at RallyON 2012, Boulder, CO, May 2012.
Historical record
Research Archive
Interests
Agile methodologies, software development, leading multiple agile teams, roadmap planning and execution, portfolio planning, software delivery metrics, product management, coaching, facilitation, distributed systems, SaaS platforms, systems architecture at scale, programming languages, artificial intelligence, sensor systems, and pervasive and ubiquitous computing.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
- Chair, Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 07) at Middleware 2007.
- Chair, Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation (USE '07) at UbiComp 2007.
- Publications Chair, PERVASIVE 2007.
- Student Volunteer Co-chair, PERVASIVE 2006.
- Sponsorship Chair, ECOOP 2005.
- Treasury Chair, Mobile HCI 2004.
Program Committee Membership
- Workshop on Ambient Information Systems at Pervasive 2007 and UbiComp 2008.
- Workshop on Trust in Mobile Environments at IFIPTM 08 - Joint iTrust and PST Conference.
- Workshop on Pervasive Technologies for Support of Alzheimer's and Related Disease Sufferers, PERA 2008.
- Workshop on the Issues of Designing and Evaluating Ambient Information Systems 2007 at PERVASIVE 07.
- Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC) 2006 at Middleware 2006.
Professional Affiliations
- Certified SCRUM Master.
- Chartered IT Professional Member of the British Computer Society.
- Member of the IEEE.