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4 steps to speed up code reviews
The culture changes you need to make to stop code reviews from demoralizing teams.
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Google is cracking down on remote work
Google follows other tech giants and doubles down to add restrictions on its “Work from Anywhere” (WFA) policy.
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Crafting the perfect LeadDev talk submission
Crafting the best version of your talk proposal for the LeadDev stage with the help of ChatGPT.
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The creative technologist
Learn how to build a creative practice to help you become a more creative leader.
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Cooking up a culture of continuous learning
Continuous learning is an important part of building a collaborative culture.
Build a productive code review culture
Code reviews can be tense and stressful if done incorrectly. Avoid bikeshedding and set good cultural standards with these nine simple steps.
Trust is the ultimate driver of engineering excellence
How can you improve the level of trust in your teams to bolster performance and encourage an inclusive culture.
November 3 & 4, 2025
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Essential reading
How to build an intentional culture
Don’t leave your culture up to chance. Curate your principles and values intentionally to build high-performing, harmonious teams.
On our Culture playlist
Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.
How to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.
Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams
How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?
The conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps
Spending too much on DevOps maintenance? Here are some ways to cut costs.
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Encouraging autonomy within engineering teams
Autonomy is a wonderful thing. Here’s how to relinquish control and empower your engineering teams to deliver more impact.
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Six things to consider when structuring engineering teams
Organizing or reorganizing engineering teams? Here are some best practices to keep in mind.
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How to develop curiosity in your team
Curiosity is a superpower. Here’s how to inspire it in your team.
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The old Twitter is gone
Morale has plummeted as the company has rapidly changed from a well-respected engineering organization to a punchline under the leadership of Elon Musk.
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Four ways to protect yourself from burnout
You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm. Here are some preventative steps you can take to avoid burning out.
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How I support my reports’ mental health as a new manager
How can engineering managers support mental health in their teams? Matt Cooper shares five ways to get started.
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How to harness the power of deadlines in engineering teams
Managing deadlines is about more than setting dates. Here’s how to plan for ambitious but achievable deadlines.
Top Culture videos
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Creating a user-focused engineering team
Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.
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The tools of culture change
In this talk Jason will cover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to culture change, and give you the tools you need to get the best out of your team.
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Calling out a terrible on call system
Molly Struve knew the system had to change if we wanted to continue growing and not lose our developer talent, but the question was how?
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Simplify your postmortems and focus on scaling
Ricardo Aravena gives us a better understanding of how to run effective postmortems consistently to mature DevOps in the organization.
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Harassers are nice to me
Sarah Milstein looks at techniques for surfacing and addressing bad behaviour in the workplace.
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Equipping your team to support junior developers
Aisha Blake discusses actionable steps for building junior-inclusive practices through active reflection, sustainable processes, and a focus on empathetic communication.
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Eliminating hero culture in software engineering teams
Infrastructure Program Manager at Google Brianna McCullough will discuss what common pitfalls to avoid when scaling your team at
LeadDev Together on February 1. -
Fostering psychological safety in distributed teams
Taylor Poindexter asks how can you do your best to ensure your team has psychological safety and the proper processes to set yourselves up for success in a remote-first world.