Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Velocity

Velocity

Supercharging your processes for faster software delivery

  • 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.

The best AI coding assistants 2024

There’s more to life than just Copilot.

Streamline development processes with application templates

Increase efficiency, collaboration, and innovation.

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.

Managing the chaos of context switching

It’s time to examine the good, the bad, and the very ugly elements of context switching. Even better, we’ll take a look at some strategies for managing it.

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.

Ben Murray

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 ??‍♀️

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.

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Top Velocity videos

  • How performance is everyone’s job

    As builders of the web, performance is our most important job, as it dictates a users happiness and willingness to use a product.

  • Adapting testing for engineers

    Keeping up with a team of developers who release every day is a tough job, but someone’s got to do it! Gone are the long, relaxing days of manual testing for weeks on end. Here is how we are keeping the acceptance testing process at JUST EAT as lean as possible.

  • Dealing with culture divides on distributed teams

    Having timezone issues, international flights, planning logistics, communication and dealing with different cultural norms, working with teams distributed across the world provides challenges to overcome and a great way to learn how to work in a different manner at times.

  • Working backwards from the customer

    Amazon is built on top of fine grained services that have a strong ownership model – you build it, you run it. These services are created by small teams to make it very easy to innovate.

  • Creating processes that don’t impede autonomy

    Many factors contribute to developer happiness. However, as engineers, we’re often singularly obsessed with the idea that our job satisfaction comes solely from solving only the most interesting technical challenges.

  • Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto

    Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably weren’t handed a leadership instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead.

  • Running An Effective Mobile Engineering Team

    Organisations often worry about their mobile teams. Sometimes they are a bit separate. There’s often this inexplicable hostility to mentions of “React Native”.

  • The Original Skunk Works

    Long before Agile and Lean became buzzwords, a scrappy group of aerospace engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works were using similar practices to produce some of the most amazing aircraft ever built.