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AI coding assistants aren’t really making devs feel more productive
New research runs counter to the hype around AI coding assistants.
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The right way to make AI part of your tech strategy
With everyone scrambling to bake AI into their technical strategy, leaders may be resorting to unreliable and unscalable methods.
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Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, tricks, and techniques
Unlock best practices for deploying self-hosted LLMs—optimize performance, ensure reliability, and tackle real-world challenges in critical industries
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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 • Nov 3 & 4, 2025
Charity Majors, Sam Newman, and Humera Noor confirmed for LeadDev Berlin! 🙌
Essential reading
Should the daily stand-up die?
Will the real agile developers please stand up? Please stand up. Please, stand up.
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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 conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
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Building a prioritization framework
During key planning periods, it’s important for engineering managers to ruthlessly prioritize projects for their teams. Here are some frameworks to help you get there.
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Focus on outcomes over outputs
Software engineering teams should focus on outcomes over outputs to deliver the best user and business value.
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Embracing cycles of productivity for healthier teams
It’s common to equate working at 100% capacity to elevated productivity, but this isn’t true. Nick Means has some ways you can approach team efficiency in a healthier way.
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How managers can improve team efficiency
How managers can navigate the changes in our industry and make sure their teams stay efficient.
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How elite companies have empowered remote teams
Enough time has passed now for some key lessons to be learned about empowering remote engineering teams to do their best work. Here, we asked the best in the business how they did it.
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8 principles for effectively scaling engineering teams
Scaling engineering teams in a way that is sustainable requires a lot of different elements. Here are eight things your org needs to build teams effectively.
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7 generative AI productivity hacks for developers
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are already providing software developers with a handy productivity boost, but the risks have to be carefully managed.
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Incorporating organizational values into your agile process
Most teams will adapt and modify their agile processes to fit their current culture, but what if you’re trying to shift that culture, or going through a new stage of growth?
Top Velocity videos
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Building a shared vision: Creating alignment across autonomous teams
Maria Neumayer’s talk will explore how to overcome these challenges, get buy-in from engineers to promote cross-team collaboration and alignment, all while establishing and refining shared standards and working towards a shared vision.
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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.
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Where we’re going wrong with developer productivity
Cat Hicks proposes a different, science-backed approach to productivity using research evidence from a study with 1200+ developers: developer thriving.
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Compassionate on-call
Lisa Karlin Curtis discusses how to build a compassionate on-call rota, and how that can help build sustainable and high performing teams.
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Leading from Incidents: How past incidents can be used to guide company decisions
Nora Jones will dive into how we can get the most out of incidents before they become our culture in a way we didn’t intend.
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What DevOps teams need to know in 2023
How can we create a healthy DevOps culture that supports user retention?
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Moving quickly inside a large organization
Pablo Jablonski shares key learnings from building and shipping Spaces within Twitter, and how those learnings can be applied to any new team looking to move quickly within a larger organization.
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Concise and effective feedback: Applying the learnings of DORA4 to communication
David LaMothe discusses a model much like the DORA4 model, except instead of focusing on metrics like time to merge and rate of recovery, focusing on personally developed metrics for feedback that ensures he is giving it early and often.