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Rethinking how distributed teams deliver complex tech
Practical patterns for delivering complex work across distributed teams while improving inclusion, decision quality, and team autonomy.
Editor’s picks
Productivity isn’t always fast
It can often feel like we aren’t being productive unless we’re working at max speed. But slow productivity is here to subvert that idea.
How to speed up code reviews
Code reviews don’t have to be painful. Here’s how to embrace tools and more collaborative processes to raise the bar on your review cycle.
Maintain team performance during unexpected change
You’ll have to experience change management at least once in your career. Make sure your teams can maintain performance through it all.
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
AI. Burnout. Big decisions.
The pressure is real. Berlin is where you work through it.
Essential reading
Should the daily stand-up die?
Will the real agile developers please stand up? Please stand up. Please, stand up.
On our Velocity playlist
Engineering owns velocity
In this talk, I’ll explore what engineering leaders need to do to credibly own velocity and deeply align their work with the company strategy.
Launching a Gen AI powered travel companion: A case for tiger teams
Explore Booking.com’s journey in launching a Gen AI travel companion in 3 months, powered by a tiger team approach for rapid, focused product development and innovation.
Goldilocks doesn’t need your story points or your t-shirts
Ben Murray believes there is only really one question you need to ask: is this task small enough?
How to drive pace in your team ??♀️
Alicia Collymore delivers actionable advice that’ll help you to improve your teams’ delivery and pace without a data-first approach.
Planning for success when scaling rapidly
Create goals, prioritize effectively, set expectations, and drive alignment.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Velocity
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Helping engineering teams adapt to a new normal
Initiatives to maintain trust and morale when transitioning to remote working
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The huge opportunity of remote leadership
Harnessing your position to strengthen team cohesion and fairness
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Four key metrics for measuring DevOps success
What do high-performing engineering teams look like, quantitatively?
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Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
Curing the fear of the process monster
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In partnership with CircleCI
Delivering frontend experiences safely and continuously
The power of an independent CI/CD pipeline
Top Velocity videos
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The nitty gritty of scaling software teams
Daniel Burke’s talk on evaluating and adopting appropriate software and design patterns, as well as tips on helping your people develop as your team grows.
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Designing cultural transformations
Ryn Daniels shares a design process that helps you identify problems with your current culture and brainstorm sustainable solutions and opportunities.
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Understanding your team’s velocity
A panel discussion on being able to examine the speed of your team in depth is crucial to propelling them forward.
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The power of visibility to unblock collaboration
Fostering a culture where knowledge can be shared with everyone.
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Landing projects successfully
Getting projects across the finish line is a challenge, particularly for projects where you need other teams to do something – for example, to migrate to a new tool or a new version of an API. This talk will cover how to increase the likelihood that those teams will do what you need them to do, through a focus on clarity, communication, and empathy. It will cover some ideas for nudging behaviour too.
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Sustaining and growing motivation across projects
In this panel, we’ll explore how to sustain motivation across long projects, including how to celebrate victories but also how to quickly bounce-back from any obstacles that occur.
