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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
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 • 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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Seven ways to build effective platform teams
Platform teams are important for establishing the foundational layers of a company’s product. How can yours be more effective?
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How engineering leaders can promote urgency in teams
Urgency is often a skill that people really value. But what does it actually mean in practice?
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How engineering leaders can better organize their day
How can engineering leaders hack their productivity? Here’s six ways to better organize your working day to avoid distractions and make more impact.
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How to create more collisions in remote working environments
Being intentional about ad hoc conversations in a remote working environment can lead to more creativity and productivity.
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The case for and against building ChatGPT into your developer workflow
It’s been touted as a revolutionary timesaver – but what about the errors? We asked developers to make the case for and against using AI tools like ChatGPT to help them code.
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DevOps for engineering managers
DevOps promises faster, better software delivery cycles. How do you best set up your organization to reap these benefits?
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Context switching strategies to preserve your focus
Switching between tasks comes with the territory for software engineers. Here are some tactics to help you preserve focus.
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Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty
Automation and closer collaboration with customer service teams can help your organization absorb any new shocks 2023 brings.
Top Velocity videos
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Effective Remote Work: James Stanier in conversation
How to be just as impactful in a distributed workforce
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Scaling your mobile app release process
Neil Kimmett discusses strategies to iterate on your app release process, software tools that can help you, and how to reorient your organization for a mobile-first world.
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Solving inefficiency challenges at Datacenter scale
Bobby talks about how a technical solution increased the existing clusters capacity by 9% — resulting in a multi-year saving of 9-figures in CAPEX, by solving inefficiency challenges at datacenter scale.
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Software estimation – embracing nuance and controlled chaos
Karl Sanford explains how to embrace nuance, control chaos, and begin to confidently deliver on your commitments.
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Keeping up momentum in remote teams
How can you increase your speed of delivery when managing remote engineering teams?
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Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity
How can you get your engineering teams to stop bypassing security requirements?
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Making a bigger impact through collaboration as a senior individual contributor
How can working with peers lead to individual career progression?
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Systems of efficient stability
Holly will talk through Slack’s system for managing ambient disruptions, detailing Slack’s process and the benefits it has brought at LeadDev Together.