Gayle Silverman
Developing products & people with pragmatism
Gayle Silverman
Developing products & people with pragmatism
Gayle Silverman is a Principal, Product Delivery Lead, specializing in digital product engagements at the intersection of innovation and practicality. Her passion is building strong teams through pragmatic communication.
Gayle is a product advocate, delivery leader, and mentor with 10+ years’ experience shepherding product, support, and implementation initiatives. In addition to being a strategic advisor, she is a volunteer instructor at Black Diamond Charities, an organization working to educate veterans to become project managers.
While away from her desk, Gayle enjoys ambling along the 606 trail, reading the first third of a ridiculous amount of books, and finding new neighborhood restaurants.
Upcoming conference sessions featuring Gayle Silverman
Stick with it: making “glue work,” work
Every team has someone quietly holding everything together. They're onboarding new hires, untangling cross-team miscommunications, nudging people to report time, and proactively helping without being asked. Tanya Reilly called this "glue work," and while it's essential, it often falls invisibly on the same people, every time.
In this talk, learn how our organization ran a Tournament of Glue Work (a bracket-style exercise spanning four dimensions of team life) to surface and prioritize the hidden labor keeping us afloat. Come see what bubbled to the top, what surprised us, and how naming glue work changed the way we talk about fairness, recognition, and shared responsibility on engineering teams.
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