What I learned about teams from building the Jenkins project - Kohsuke Kawaguchi, @platohq
What I learned about teams from building the Jenkins project - Kohsuke Kawaguchi,  @platohq
Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Kosuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins and now Co-CEO at Launchable. In this keynote, he shares his unique insights on building and leading effective teams. He discusses the importance of ownership and trust, the role of alignment in a team, and shares highlights from his experiences in the open source community and corporate structures like CloudBees. The talk offers valuable lessons for managers and leaders in tech and beyond.

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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.
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