50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins

A talk about farts. Wait, nobody's going to come to that. Forget I said that. It's not about farts.

A talk about the messes we make at tech companies, which bear a purely metaphorical resemblance to farts.

Every company has them (messes, not farts). And, just like farts, each one is pungent in its own special, unique way. The holes we dig for ourselves are uniquely our own, though maybe with enough perspective we'll be able to spot some common characteristics.

Through 18 years in the tech industry, half of that freelancing, I've ridden a few sinking ships and some others that were taking on an awful lot of water. Come with me on a retrospective of all the different ways a tech company can flounder. We'll have some fun, and see if there's anything at all we can learn from it.

Bring a story about the most notable failure you've been a part of, and we'll have some time for sharing at the end.

• All levels
• Development
• Startups
• Product