LeadDev Berlin 2019
Bringing better technical leadership to Europe's startup hub
Episodes
How to affect change without losing your job
Handling security issues as an engineering team
Making the right salary decisions for your engineering team
Writing effective technical documentation
Breaking down silos for better collaboration
Strategies for making impossible decisions
Building blocks for architecture governance with autonomous teams
Distributed teams: how to hone connection, communication, and collaboration
Scaling performance at the scale of Slack
Learning from incidents: from 'what went wrong?' to 'what went right?'
Lessons for frontend development at scale
Applying software engineering practices to improve people management
Skills for first-time Lead Developers
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Jellyfish
Welcome to LeadDev New York 2024
Technologists: how to make decisions for your organization and our society
Fostering psychological safety in distributed teams
Welcome to StaffPlus New York
Welcome to LeadingEng New York
Becoming an influencer (no selfies required)
Intentional influence
Healthy and effective leadership teams
Welcome to LeadDev London 2024
Building aligned strategies
Don't try this at home. How to practice self-improvement as a senior leader
Keeping current
Getting buy-in for your transformation strategy
Engineering leadership with a little help from my friends
Healthy and Effective Leadership Teams
Building aligned strategies
Living in the future: How leading leaders is a lot like time travel
An Eng Leaders Intro on Understanding “the Business”.
Strategies for focusing on the most important thing
Starting a new job as a Staff+
Leveraging Your Peers as a Staff Plus Engineer: Building Peer Groups
The Art & Science of Decision Buy-In
Getting to Commitment: Tackling broad technical problems in large organizations
Driving clarity in ambiguous projects
Refactoring: Managing technical debt before it blows up in your face
Why most technology migrations fail (and what we’ve learned along the way)
Effective observability in microservice architectures
Sunsetting legacy systems: a story by Netflix
The Map Book: Visual Storytelling With Roadmaps
Software estimation - embracing nuance and controlled chaos
Instilling the built-in quality mindset into a dev team
Don't squander your inheritance: expert advice for taking over existing teams
Equipping your team to support junior developers
Paying down management debt without burning out
Death and life of great software teams
Blame, shame and panic - how not to respond when things go wrong
Rubrics cubed: Attempting to quantify the qualitative in the interview process
Simplify your postmortems and focus on scaling
Calling out a terrible on call system
Bottom up org change and evolution
The practice of managing managers
Accessibility and why everything old is new again
Registration and refreshments
Refreshments
Lunch
Wrap-up
Networking mixer
Close
What Capuchin monkeys know that engineering leaders don't
Moon to Mars: Planning and executing for the long term
Sponsor presentation
Solving inefficiency challenges at Datacenter scale
Welcome from our Headline Sponsor
Why we are writing a monolith, not a microservice
Sorry... you go ahead. The art of making space and claiming space in meetings
Leading By Learning: The Potential of Incidents
Building Culture through Communication
Strategies for keeping current while leading the org
Driving effective Prioritization for optimal business outcomes
The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch
Shaping culture in the engineering organization
The places you'll go: how to keep learning in leadership
Great engineers are made by great engineering teams
Everyone can contribute: Make it so!
Aligning teams through allocations
Examples are hard: Prioritizing developer experience
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LeadDev London 2022 Meetup
Lunch
Welcome to LeadingEng London 2024
Networking mixer
Registration and refreshments
Leading by example: Staying technical as a CTO
A Systems Approach to Engineering Leadership
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Thanks for the feedback: How to take tough, personal feedback and use it to level-up your leadership style and create collaborative & inclusive teams
Everyone can contribute: Make it so!
Learning in the flow of work
The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
Registration and refreshments
Welcome to LeadDev Berlin 2024
StaffPlus London 2024 Wrap-up
Stop! Strategy time! (...or are we really stopping?)
Silly baboons, stubborn elephants: navigating culture differences across R&D groups
The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever
Leading through turbulence
A lean DevOps approach to learning & development
Do you really need a platform team?
Shopify's remote working toolbox
Feature flag use cases you haven't heard about yet
The truth about burnout
Explaining distributed systems like I'm five
Lessons learned from refactors and rearchitectures
Tips for part-time project managers
Scaling engineering organizations
Leading software teams with context (visibility)
Decision making in black box scenarios
The Making of a Manager's Manager
Developer productivity 2.0
Registration & Refreshments
On call does not have to suck
Be a better partner to product management
What do you mean there’s no onboarding plan for engineering managers?
Making personal development matter
Finding success on a team with a first-time tech lead
Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration
Wrangling Kubernetes into a developer friendly cloud platform
Understanding Time Systems Creates Successful Engineering Teams
MMMRRRRR, or approaches to leadership and execution for staff+
Effective engineering leadership growth
How to keep learning in leadership
Technical Strategy as a Superpower
Choosing your village of leaders
Creating the story of your culture
Welcome to LeadDev West Coast 2023
Registration & Refreshments
Wrap-up
Welcome to LeadingEng West Coast
Wrap-up
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Better engineering through business understanding
How managers can successfully lead their teams through change
Strengthening company alignment
Rise of the platform (Team)
It’s lonely at the top - How do you build your support network from there?
Bridging the Dev-Sec divide: Three tips for agile developers
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Becoming a manager somewhere else
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Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark
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Operational data meet organization silos
Assess beyond functional correctness and improve hiring funnel throughput
The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
Why Operations Matter
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Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you: A highlight reel of team fun
Rise of the platform (Team)
Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
Scale up: How to grow your team without growing headcount
Critical components of successful delegation
Controlling Cloud Costs with Culture
MMMRRRRR, or approaches to leadership and execution for staff+
Practical additive hiring for any team
No more heroes: User experience design for incident response
Navigating parental leave as a senior engineering leader
Trends in Cloud-Native Performance & Efficiency
You Can Write Devastatingly Effective Docs
Influencing organizational change without hurting your day job: a playbook
Building effective engineering teams; lessons from 10 years at Google
There’s no “I” in learning from incidents.
Organizational Change Through The Power Of Why - DevSecOps Enablement
Towards global and human-centered explanations for machine learning models
How a year in engineering leadership has made me a better individual contributor
Understanding Time Systems Creates Successful Engineering Teams
Traps when spotting and growing new managers
Wrangling Kubernetes into a developer friendly cloud platform
Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration
Finding success on a team with a first-time tech lead
Becoming a manager somewhere else
Be a better partner to product management
Making personal development matter
Scaling engineering organizations
Transitioning from synchronous to asynchronous (and somewhere between)
Bridging the Dev-Sec divide: Three tips for agile developers
Leading software teams with context (visibility)
Decision making in black box scenarios
Leading as an introvert
Debugging debugging; why we must approach debugging differently
On call does not have to suck
Silly baboons, stubborn elephants: navigating culture differences across R&D groups
Setting goals as a senior individual contributor
Fight back against imposter syndrome
The role of data in green software engineering
Leading software teams with systems thinking
The making of a manager's manager
Technical documentation - how can I write them better and why should I care?
The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever
Tackling the toppling tech talent pyramid: a radical challenge to building diverse teams
Leading through turbulence
A lean DevOps approach to learning & development
Do you really need a platform team?
Shopify's remote working toolbox
Feature flag use cases you haven't heard about yet
Integrating an expert solo developer into a development team
Developer productivity 2.0
Explaining distributed systems like I'm five
Lessons learned from refactors and rearchitectures
Tips for part-time project managers
It’s lonely at the top - How do you build your support network from there?
How managers can successfully lead their teams through change
Creating the story of your culture
Better engineering through business understanding
Technical Strategy as a Superpower
How to keep learning in leadership
Effective engineering leadership growth
Assess beyond functional correctness and improve hiring funnel throughput
The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
Operational data meet organization silos
How much should staff+ engineers code?
Leading without authority: an example from security engineering
Embedding on teams as a staff+ individual contributor
Building effective relationships
Say no to burnout and stand up for yourself
Building koi pond: simulating millions of slack clients
Strategies for cloud migration
How successful hackathons increase belonging, decrease anxiety and help people imagine new identities in tech
The (updated) story of why we migrate to gRPC and how we go about it
Enabling the motivated: Facilitating role switches smoothly
Healing your teams after layoffs
Building healthier mission-focused organizations
Setting up your team for success during your extended absence
How to kill your team’s product
Using a learning-themed retrospective to strengthen your team’s learning culture and reduce learning debt
Are we building engineering platforms using the right metrics?
Scaling yourself: Increasing your scope and impact as an engineering manager (without just working harder)
Behind the curtain: Two sides of senior leadership
Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters
What is tech policy and how you can get involved
Combating the confidence gap: Case studies in tech recruiting
Lower your stress and your team's stress by being ready for turnover
Concise and effective feedback: Applying the learnings of DORA4 to communication
Moving quickly inside a large organization
Terraform practices to enable infrastructure scaling
Everything is a migration: Putting evolutionary architecture into practice
Leading as an engineering manager
Let them learn! How to nurture great software engineers
Networking: The map is not the territory
LeadingEng New York 2024 Wrap-up
Networking mixer
Welcome to LeadingEng New York 2024
Registration & Refreshments
Welcome to StaffPlus New York 2024
Lunch
StaffPlus New York 2024 Wrap-up
LeadDev New York 2024 Wrap-up
Making the manager of manager's mindset
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Doing the right thing, better: How to lead with efficiency in mind
Leading from Incidents: How past incidents can be used to guide company decisions
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From zero to "Brands that Matter" - improving scientific discovery during a pandemic
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Shifting the mindset of delegation - Your secret weapon to leadership at scale
Building an effective technical strategy
Engineering, everywhere, all at once: rethinking value as an engineering leader
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How inclusive leaders stay current
The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset
Career vectors - CTO flavours: Mixing & matching skillsets
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Red 2.0: Transforming a game company
Strategies for succeeding as a underrepresented engineering leader
Making the move to manager: Common pitfalls for new engineering leaders
Where we’re going wrong with developer productivity
"I'm happy where I am" - Supporting team members that aren't seeking progression
How to drive pace in your team 🏃🏽♀️
How we support making architectural decisions
Exit plans and how to talk about them
Platform engineering is all about product
How to effectively “Spike” a complex technical project
Riding the rollercoaster of emotions
Cultural post mortems: an approach to learning and recovering when your people systems fail
Build a data-driven on-call workflow for your team with atomic habits
Keeping your team health after a layoff
Parents who code: How to welcome your developers back after parental leave
Creating inclusive career ladders
Building for the underserved, solving for all
Driving positive change through performance improvement plans
Upskill Your Engineers Strategically: How to Conduct a Needs Analysis to Identify What Your Engineering Teams Need to Learn
The awful agony of the app store: When software delivery goes wrong
Practical systems thinking for Software Engineers
Solving the puzzle of staff+ time management
Librarian's guide to documentation
Building a diverse and inclusive guild from the ground up
Building a shared vision: Creating alignment across autonomous teams
Scaling your influence through documentation
Setting goals as a staff+ engineer
Scaling your influence when you can only be in one place at once
Exerting Incremental Engineering Influence
Defining expectations of Staff Engineers
The dark side of lessons learned
Defining a technical vision
Maps to medicines: One map to an atlas
Engineering transparency
Why onboarding to a company's legacy codebase sucks, and how to make it work for your team
Maximizing your impact when context-switching
Putting down line management; returning to an individual contributor role
How to progress as an engineer while doing what you love
Orchestrating thousands of bots from the cloud
What to do after being laid off: Lessons on being my own CEO for a change
Building bridges: The art of crafting seamless partnerships between engineering, product, and design
Organizational resilience
The 9.1 magnitude meltdown at Fukushima
Homebrew’s great migration: Moving to GitHub packages with zero downtime
Delivering a digital first BBC - an architects perspective
Welcome to StaffPlus London 2024
Cloud infrastructure architecture for Nubank’s global expansion
Filling the jar of impact and trust as a Principal Engineer
Registration and refreshments
Working on software that is older than you
Unmasking Imposters by debugging doubts
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Running large scale migrations continuously
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How not to lose friends and alienate yourself: Learnings from a journey to Staff Engineer
Navigating complex projects: Finding the right mode of operation
Engineering a more equitable hiring process
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Less is more: Tool consolidation for more performance of your testing
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Increase the opportunity for success and diversity in your software engineering teams through professional apprenticeships
Tackling software engineering leaders' dual mandate
Making transformation work
Managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change
Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT
"Zero waste" engineering practices
Putting power into practice as a Staff+ engineer
Expedition to the LLM and AI frontier
From monolith to micro: How to break apart a front-end application
How to onboard effectively as a remote engineering manager
Better hiring with code review assignments
Meeting your people where they are
Breaking the burnout cycle in engineering teams
Systemic leadership for software teams
How I learned to lose battles and still win the war
Mascot driven development: Building a high performing team through application ownership & identity
GraphQL is a superpower for your product manager and designer
Managing a passionate team: How to change the world without burning out
How much is that API call in the window?
Think like a journalist: Make better decisions when you don’t have all the information
Platform Health: A team model of platform evolution for startups
NOPASSWD: Building a passwordless cloud infrastructure
Establishing intentional communication
Leaders building leaders: Mentoring staff+ engineers into powerhouses
Slaying the Goliath: Lessons learned from a full system re-write
a11y is your MVP: Moving fast without breaking accessibility
Supporting Major Launches as a Staff+ IC
From silos to sharing: Engineering knowledge as part of the development flow
Why shifting left is so important for software developers
Sustaining Innovation with changing times: Adapting systems, teams, processes and yourself
You can go your own way: Owning your career design and making it real
The Many Shapes of a VP of Engineering
Space aliens are among us, your product roadmap is realistic, and other lies you believe
Crafting an effective technical strategy: Business success through targeted investment
Shadow work: How to reckon with structural influence in the middle of the org chart
Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture
Growing the next generation of leaders: Leveling up your leadership teams
Refreshments and activities
Meet the speaker: Johnny Austin on the lies engineering managers tell themselves
Leading through the downturn
Building teams in tumultuous times. Lessons learned after multiple layoffs
Pragmatic data organization leadership
Goldilocks doesn't need your story points or your t-shirts
Native to flutter: A tale of Tide's transformation
Practical tech-debt prioritization
Skills that empower engineers to drive business impact
The art of abstracting: Key factors for success in a core/platform/buildingblocks team
Building bridges beyond the screen: Cracking the code of remote team-building
Take back control of code quality
Making work (and life) less stressful by making better decisions
Managing in hard times: How to shift from growth to stability
Learning is a core capability of software teams; here’s how to measure it
Go with the flow: Embracing and supporting menstrual needs in tech
Coaching autism traits in tech
There and back again: A journey of complexity
Growing future leaders: nurturing Team Leads as a path to managerial succession
Things I got wrong when preparing for my first Engineering Manager role
50 shades of PR dark matter
Leading a distributed team out of a war zone: Lessons in resilience and adaptability
Python Powered People - teaching non-technical professionals to code
Responsible AI / Ethics in AI in engineering
OpenAI explains how they scaled ChatGPT
Introduction to talk
It’s time to pay off your management debt
Pleasing everyone, except yourself: Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies to become a stronger engineering leader
Demystifying the VP of engineering role
AI for software development: A reality check
How to make better modernization decisions
Built to flex - Strengthen your org to expect change
Influencing your company’s culture from the driver’s seat
Unlocking lean efficiency: Turning knobs where it matters in tech leadership
Crafting an effective tech strategy and getting buy-in for it
Leading in the post-boom environment
Becoming an inspiring leader. Solve problems and motivate people.
Registration and refreshments
Welcome to LeadingEng Berlin
Decision making - The first 5000 years
Cost savings don’t have to impact code quality
AI and the future of software engineering
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How Netflix sustains innovation while “doing more with less”
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You will ship your org chart: understanding organization structure tradeoffs
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How to learn from conferences
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Challenges in transforming a multicultural local-only company to a remote-first
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Putting your power into practice as a Staff+ engineer
How I tackled the fear of metrics to level up conversations with my ICs
Doing the right thing, better: How to lead with efficiency in mind
Why observability needs to be treated as critical infrastructure
Tackling Software Engineering Leaders' Dual Mandate
Master modern hiring: Win the race for tech talent through equity, empathy & efficiency
Why can we still not measure team performance?
Building the operating system of a healthy and responsible tech business
A reality check on generative AI
Why management debt is a company-wide issue
AI and the future of software engineering
Why can we still not measure team performance?
Building engineering teams that can withstand any shock
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I've got the power: Career growth, today and beyond
Leading through AI-powered complexity: Balancing business priorities, innovation and resources
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How to successfully lead your team through a downturn
How to completely fail at learning
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Embracing engineering’s place at the forefront of business
No plan survives first contact with the enemy: Managing through large scale organizational change
How to craft a business case for your technical strategy
Getting things done that people actually want done
Contemplating the Future: Modeling your organisation to meet a shifting business
Commercial Understanding for Engineering
Growing engineering managers: Breaking down the monolith
In anticipation of change: Strategies for engineering leaders to stay current and effective
The OSS maintainer to staff engineer pipeline
Creating technical leadership in context
Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Tackling Conway’s Law over coffee and donuts
Ethics in the age of AI: Strategies for mitigation and their historical context
Making do: Scaling expertise on teams you can't grow
Safety and Belonging - A Ritual to Jumpstart Psychological Safety
Managing expectations: Lessons from making large-scale platform changes
Making better build vs buy decisions
Adventure beyond the keyboard: Growth strategies for senior leaders
Honing commercial awareness and driving business outcomes
Your Strategy: Crafting an effective technical strategy and getting buy-in
Building products is a team sport: Cultivating effective engineering-product partnerships
Your Delivery: Driving pace and delivering high-impact projects
Your People: Principles for a resilient organization
The path from Director to CTO: How to follow it, or how to mentor it
The skills engineering leaders need in 2023
Tactical tech: Short-term solutions for long-term strategy
Scaling yourself by helping your colleagues grow
Doing "the most important thing" is a trap
Chromosomes in the cloud: Building a scalable genomic matching algorithm
Tips on scaling your leadership outside of your comfort zone
Engineering owns velocity
Your people: Structuring and developing your teams
Filling the void: Operating as a staff engineer in a leaderless scope
Influencing through getting your carrots in a row
Effective delegation without authority
Deming's wisdom for staff+ engineers: A modern take on timeless principles
Fitness functions: Creating consistency across hundreds of services
Sunsetting legacy: Navigating the shop merchant eligibility data pipeline migration
Mastering visual communication for software development
Is staff engineering valuable at a small company?
Scaling leadership: Insights from the first staff technical program manager in the room
Is efficiency a good thing?
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What's my job again? Developing self-management
Empowering developers to accelerate decentralized app development
Dates and deadlines...it's complicated
Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Cultivating great teams: Managing out with kindness
Several components are rendering: Client performance at Slack-scale
A nudge in the right direction: How to give just enough help
Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
Cultivating ownership at any engineering level
The choice is yours – or is it? Tactics for making difficult decisions
The scrappy/scale mindset: A framework for sustainable engineering leadership
Increasing code habitability by using AI coding assistants
Transforming legacy software: Riding the rollercoaster of emotion and innovation
Finding balance: How to build processes that help not hurt your engineering team
You don't understand how trust works
Making what you have enough: Navigating the realities of the non-boom market
When to know you've outgrown your monolith and what to do about it
Simplify streaming application development: A declarative approach at Airbnb
Finding opportunities and maximizing Impact: A staff engineer's framework
Leading your team through a major refactor - don't be a hero, be a leader
Beyond generic goodstuff: Helping teams navigate context
Using clinical science to effectively tackle code review anxiety (LeadDev)
Doing the right thing vs doing things right
Start with an exit in mind: How to be effective by being selfish as a staff engineer
Psychologically safe reliability management
Being a force for cultural change in your organization
Reducing infrastructure cost during development and in production
Explosive overflow: Lessons from rocket science
Substrate engineering: Engineering foundations in a world of LLMs
Sometimes you need to be a cruise director
Focus on project value using businesses strategy
Navigators: Connecting execs with staffPlus engineers to shape strategy
Nail the pitch and stick the landing: How to propose & deliver major technical projects
"We’re so glad we hired you!” Incorporate microinclusions into developer onboarding to increase developer thriving
Leading with policy, consensus, and conviction: Three distinct leadership styles for effective engineering leadership
Mastering managing, mentoring and coaching
How to deal with the “technical” in “technical leadership”
Overcoming the fear of AI: Upskilling your teams to adopt AI with confidence
The engineering leader's playbook: A hands-on guide to DORA
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Launching a Gen AI powered travel companion: A case for tiger teams
On-call revolution: Building a culture of ownership and collaboration
Level up the whole party, not just the hero
There and back again - A cautionary tale about entering middle management
Technical diplomacy
Feeling the squeeze? GreenOps offers a sustainable solution for busy engineering teams
Backwards compatible - Lessons from a quarter century in software
How to talk to everyone: Connecting with your reporting chain
Tackling tech debt
Culture, Clarity, Velocity
Transitioning from engineering leader to business executive
Driving pace and delivering high-impact projects
Developing commercial awareness to drive business outcomes
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