Human Factors in Engineering

W17 Visibility is a Technical Skill

09/16/2026

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Level: Introductory

Tony Champion

President

Champion DS

Most developers believe good work eventually speaks for itself. In modern teams and distributed organizations, it rarely does.

In this session, we'll treat visibility as a technical discipline — learned, practiced, and systematically applied. We'll diagnose why strong developers stay invisible, build a framework for making your thinking and decisions visible, and learn to communicate impact in the language stakeholders actually speak.

Invisibility has a cost. And that cost is paid entirely by you.

You will learn:

  • Identify the specific behaviors and habits that keep strong developers invisible in their organizations
  • Learn practical techniques for making your technical contributions, decisions, and thinking visible to the people who matter
  • Walk away with a repeatable visibility system you can start using on Monday morning