Latest videos
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Documentation and AI: How to write right now
Think AI can handle your documentation? Sometimes. This talk breaks down where it helps, where it doesn’t, and what still needs the human touch.
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Rethinking collaboration: LLMs, teams, and cognitive load
Discover how LLMs can reduce cognitive load, boost team collaboration, and reshape engineering workflows without compromising quality or delivery.
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How to delete everything: The clean-slate approach to technical strategy
Learn how clean-slate thinking can break technical deadlocks, improve system resilience, and inspire actionable strategies for complex engineering challenges.
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In partnership with HarnessHow can AI actually help your teams?
In this webinar, our panelists dig into the cultural and technical issues that arise around the topic of AI, and uncover its most useful applications across the SDLC.
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In partnership with HarnessHow can developer experience boost team productivity?
Want to learn some practical, realistic strategies that will make your developers’ jobs easier and more enjoyable?
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How to balance technical direction and leadership work
But as is often the case in business, priorities constantly shift and where you focus your efforts will too. So how do you strike the right balance between working on the technical direction of the business and those tasks that require you to put your leadership hat on?
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How to master the four Staff archetypes and elevate your impact
While the specifics of the job can vary widely, Will Larson has famously categorized the Staff+ experience into four archetypes: Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, and the Right Hand.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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Building sustainable engineering teams that handle uncertainty
It takes time and trust for a team to learn to work together well, and if you’ve achieved that it’s not surprising that you want to keep it that way.
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Creating goal-setting workshops for managers in your 1:1s
Often when we talk about goals, they’re from the perspective of the individual: how do you come up with goals for yourself? How do you achieve those goals?
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Using Agile Techniques to Build a More Inclusive Team
Building psychological safety in your teams is critical if you want them to perform at their best.
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The Container Operator’s Manual
Containers have been the future for five years now, featured on the stage of every major distributed systems conference in the world.
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Building compassion
Despite our focus on wellness tools, apps, and the desperate desire to code away vulnerability in the tech industry, talking about pain can still be uncomfortable.
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Building stable engineering organizations in times of change
Meri Williams, with Jean-Michel Lemieux, Claudius Mbemba and Elaine Zhou at LeadDev Live 2021 discussing ‘Building stable engineering organisations in times of change’.
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Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.
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Effective remote communication in complex organisations
What are your challenges when communicating with your distributed teams and collaborating asynchronously? Tech leaders Katie Wilde, Dana Lawson, Asanka Jayasuriya, Farhan Thawar & Wambui Kinyashare share their communication strategies for remote orgs.
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Strategies for influencing without exerting authority
How can you communicate and clarify your leadership position, whilst making sure that the needs of your teammates and colleagues are taken into account?
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What VCs want us to know as technical leaders
Are you working at or interested in start-up, scale-up or other Venture Capital-backed businesses?
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A tour of decisions in event-driven architecture
When do we use API calls vs events for interactions? Do we need to build up local replicas from events when we need data from other services?
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Storytelling techniques for creating impactful presentations
Arquay’s session filled with tips on how to use storytelling techniques in your presentations and get your point across in a way that feels natural for you.
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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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The mentor playbook
By being thoughtful and deliberate in mentoring moments, we can all be a part of creating richer tech communities that foster inclusivity and thrive on collective growth.
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Presenting to executives
Kevin Goldsmith shares strategies for planning your presentation, handling unexpected questions and following up afterward when pitching to executives at your company.
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ICON Framework: Creating Value From Machine Learning
Banjo Obayomi talks about the 4 parts of the ICON framework and how you can apply it to your development cycles to align your efforts and bring business value.
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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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Habits of highly-performing teams
CTO Charity Majors joined us at #LeadDevLive to talk about everything that went into building a high-performing team at Honeycomb.
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Streamlining the management of multiple websites and apps
Prepare your team to work effectively across contexts
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Strategies for creating an environment of continuous learning
How to prioritize the development of your engineers.
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The Effective Engineer: Edmond Lau in conversation
In this session, Suzan Bond is joined by guest author Edmond Lau to explore how to access the mindsets that will make you truly effective.
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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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Embedding observability into your engineering culture
The journey to thoroughly understanding your systems.
