Placing engineering at the heart of innovation
Exploring how we can build innovative products, starting with our engineering teams
Episodes
Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products
Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
Strategies for creating cultures of innovation in engineering teams
Why our engineering teams are our innovation teams
Learnings from 'Placing engineering at the heart of innovation'
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
Documenting and communicating architectural decisions
Principles for managing product quality
Designing software to maximize developer productivity
Engineering teams work better remote-first
How to lead your engineering team through a period of change
Travel through time and break free from rigid working cultures
How synergy between product and engineering can solve the problem of software estimation
Business as usual vs. innovation: how to get the balance right
Engage your engineers by giving them 10% time
Creating an effective process for on-call engineering teams
Planning for black swan events: how to create an effective panic team
Guiding your engineering team to self-organisation
Taking a fresh look at setting objectives and key results for your engineering team
Engaging your engineering team to achieve high performance faster
Effective meeting facilitation techniques
The race to Mach 2.0 at scale
The benefits of delivering imperfect software
Unlocking success: the components of high-performing teams
Observability that matters (and avoiding the kind that doesn't)
Clear, concise and consistent: how to communicate and prioritize risks from the engineering team to the wider organization
Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects
Driving architecture alignment across a fully-distributed engineering workforce
Using an 'architectural North Star' to align your engineering team with your organization
Bridging the gap between engineering and customer success teams
How to affect change without losing your job
Handling security issues as an 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
Scaling performance at the scale of Slack
Learning from incidents: from 'what went wrong?' to 'what went right?'
Applying software engineering practices to improve people management
Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence
Creating efficient, accurate, software estimations
What makes a good process?
Scaling up sustainably through better processes
A process is never done
Imperfect Processes: Navigating the fuzzier parts
Hypothesis-driven development
A resignation can be an opportunity
CONTENT SPONSORED by OPTIMIZELY
The challenges of introducing product experimentation
CONTENT SPONSORED by WORK & CO
Team Topologies: Manuel Pais in conversation
Engineering with empathy
CONTENT SPONSORED by OPTIMIZELY
Building stronger teams with AB testing
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Establishing experimentation as a core part of your project workflow
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Accessibility from the start
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Adopting an experimentation philosophy
Preventing process deadlock
CONTENT SPONSORED by GITLAB
The power of visibility to unblock collaboration
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Development metrics you should use (but don’t)
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Tell better stories with observability
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Observability at scale
How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage
CONTENT SPONSORED by PEPSICO
Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too
How to avoid alert fatigue
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
The toolbox of engineering metrics for distributed teams
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team
Minimizing risks in code deployment
Observability and your business
Sending gifts to future-you
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
Embedding observability into your engineering culture
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
Feature management: a low-risk way to deliver software faster
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Learnings from 'Observability in action'
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Understanding your team’s velocity
CONTENT SPONSORED by WORK & CO
Learnings from ‘Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love’
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLURALSIGHT
Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLURALSIGHT
Recognizing and removing project bottlenecks
Managing expectations on time estimates with probabilistic forecasting
Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision
Designing cultural transformations
Using Agile Techniques to Build a More Inclusive Team
CI/CD For Humans: Empathy as the Foundation for Effective Deployments
Collaborative debugging on engineering teams
Building a culture of continuous delivery
Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems
How to Design Systems and Processes Teams Actually Follow
Creating code reviews that reflect your team's culture
Crafting fun and productive Sprint retrospectives
Reclaiming the Spirit of Agile
Tackling Big, Impossible Projects
Engineering retrospectives - Look back, move forward
Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering
How to estimate as as an engineering leader
Seven key considerations in early development
Creating processes that don't impede autonomy
Working backwards from the customer
Dealing with overheads as an engineering leader
Adapting testing for engineers
How performance is everyone's job
Minimum Viable Business Continuity Management
On Postponing Lead Dev New York and London
Designing effective OKRs
Taking risks in production
Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
Estimating your way to success
CONTENT SPONSORED by SKYSCANNER
The art of self-organizing engineering teams
CONTENT SPONSORED by LIGHTSTEP
What is observability and why should you care?
How to avoid the growing pains of communicating at scale
CONTENT SPONSORED by LIGHTSTEP
A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
To build, or to buy, that is the question
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'
Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects
How to run a great incident post-mortem
The importance of effective status reports
The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLURALSIGHT
Optimizing micro-feedback loops in engineering
Running efficient, effective, and engaging retrospectives
Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay
How to have meetings that don't suck (as much)
Making the perfect meeting
Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid
A thorough team guide to RFCs
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
Abandoning the build: when investing is the only way to scale
CONTENT SPONSORED by EPSAGON
Using observability to accelerate the Engineering Flywheel
Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day
CONTENT SPONSORED by SLACK
Building a culture of quality in engineering teams
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
The long tail of product features
Making your meetings more effective
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
What engineering leaders should be measuring
Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production
Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want
Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design
140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
The search for the best solution: third party or open source?
CONTENT SPONSORED by LAUNCHDARKLY
Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy
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Write things down: transparent culture in minutes
Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions
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How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution
Leveling up your machine learning product by taking the leap to third-party
CONTENT SPONSORED by LOHIKA
Why the first two weeks are essential when building great software products
Finding your acorn: How to drive the change you want as an engineering leader
CONTENT SPONSORED by HAYSTACK
Preventing burnout while shipping faster
When planning long-term, favor accuracy over precision
Every decision creates a policy
How to break out of the thread of doom
Decision Making for Software Engineering Teams: Francesco Strazzullo in conversation
The culture of process
Outages are coming for you
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics
Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
How to foster data-driven tech leadership
CONTENT SPONSORED by MOOGSOFT
The difficulties of observability
CONTENT SPONSORED by MOOGSOFT
Thoughts on kickstarting observability
CONTENT SPONSORED by SLACK
How enterprise organizations can respond when engineering goes wrong
How keeping accessibility front of mind benefits everyone
CONTENT SPONSORED by PELOTON
Working across teams to champion accessibility
CONTENT SPONSORED by LINEARB
Are daily standups still adding value?
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Breaking down knowledge silos between engineering teams
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Why people are at the center of systems
CONTENT SPONSORED by MOOGSOFT
Making the most of observability
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Running more effective standups
Creating open source projects for your community
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results
Technologists: how to make decisions for your organization and our society
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
The rise of OpenTelemetry
CONTENT SPONSORED by EPSAGON
An introduction to issue management
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Learnings from ‘The engineering leader’s guide to data-driven leadership’
CONTENT SPONSORED by LINEARB
Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO
CONTENT SPONSORED by EPSAGON
An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Delegation is a superpower
CONTENT SPONSORED by STACKHAWK
Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity
A vision for a social model of open source
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
How Netflix, Teachers Pay Teachers, Honeycomb, and more used observability in 2021
How to cultivate a great engineering process
Top 10 ideas to take into 2022
Five steps for making data-informed decisions
Getting big changes implemented at the staff+ level
CONTENT SPONSORED by STACKHAWK
Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation
Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?
Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency
Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs
How to drive decisions as an engineering leader
Balancing delivery speed with engineering health
Understanding the role of a Distinguished engineer
Running your first internal hackathon
CONTENT SPONSORED by SHIFTLEFT
How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving
CONTENT SPONSORED by AIRBRAKE
Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team
CONTENT SPONSORED by SHIFTLEFT
Who is responsible for open source security?
CONTENT SPONSORED by SHIFTLEFT
A guide to open source for the traditional enterprise
Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Reporting effectively to the board
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Four ways to empower your team through data
How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity
CONTENT SPONSORED by JELLYFISH
Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points
How to run a progressive ERG
CONTENT SPONSORED by PAGERDUTY
Three steps for managing toil as you scale
Effective Remote Work: James Stanier in conversation
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly
CONTENT SPONSORED by PAGERDUTY
What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?
Just Work: Kim Scott in conversation
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Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLIVO
How to drive a customer-focused engineering team
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Reporting to the board as an engineering leader: Secrets to success
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLIVO
Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
Why on-call pain is a sociotechnical problem
CONTENT SPONSORED by JELLYFISH
Four engineering leadership trends you need to know
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us: Sarah Drasner in conversation
CONTENT SPONSORED by JELLYFISH
How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles
Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams: Heidi Helfand in conversation
How to communicate the state of your open source project
Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.
Born-left security: The new approach taking over shift-left
Why the most advanced technology solution isn’t always the correct one
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
What is the business case for observability?
CONTENT SPONSORED by PAGERDUTY
Want to accelerate incident response? Empower customer service teams.
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODESIGNAL
Optimizing the time you and your team spend on hiring
CONTENT SPONSORED by CHRONOSPHERE
How to create sustainable on-call rotations
What is a developer experience team?
Bringing together a social model of open source
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How to reduce stress for on-call engineering teams
Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews
CONTENT SPONSORED by ROOKOUT
Why traditional observability tools aren't cutting it anymore
Why business context is important for technical decision-making
How to build an effective code review process for your team
How to make plans for an uncertain future
Navigating complexity as an engineering leader
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLATFORM.SH
Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps
When, not if: The playbook method for managing risk
CONTENT SPONSORED by DEEPSOURCE
How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process
CONTENT SPONSORED by CHRONOSPHERE
On-call is a necessary function for any organization
How to break the “get me everything” cycle
CONTENT SPONSORED by PAGERDUTY
Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty
CONTENT SPONSORED by SWIMM
Documentation is broken
Context switching strategies to preserve your focus
DevOps for engineering managers
Managing complex organizational change
How engineering leaders can better organize their day
How engineering leaders can promote urgency in teams
CONTENT SPONSORED by SPLUNK
Running human-focused postmortems
CONTENT SPONSORED by DATADOG
Practicing engineering transparency
CONTENT SPONSORED by VERCEL
Removing roadblocks to faster iteration
How to build a strong culture with ensemble programming
How principal testers can improve company processes
How to protect your calendar against unnecessary meetings
How to plan your next product feature using a six-week cycle
Platform engineering for engineering managers
The role of developer advocacy in driving innovation
CONTENT SPONSORED by JELLYFISH
What recent data tells us about developer productivity and team health
Four key steps to take for an effective project handoff
CONTENT SPONSORED by LINEARB
Why elite dev teams focus on pull-request metrics
CONTENT SPONSORED by SPLUNK
Building a more effective DevSecOps culture
Incorporating organizational values into your agile process
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLURALSIGHT
Why motivation and self-efficacy drives thriving software teams
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Keep your delivery in balance with these metrics pairings
Growing an experiment-driven quality culture
How to get leadership buy-in on your tech strategy
Focus on outcomes over outputs
Building a prioritization framework
Introducing processes where none exist
If agile isn’t dead, why is it still not working?
Using high-quality questions to unlock innovation
How AI changes engineering management
CONTENT SPONSORED by LINEARB
What the top 10% of dev teams look like in 2023
Managing the chaos of context switching
Building an onboarding plan for engineering managers
3 strategies for driving organizational change
Setting goals and using metrics that motivate
A prioritization framework for uncertain times
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLURALSIGHT
Why support and belonging are the final key to developer thriving
How to design (and listen to) a developer survey
CONTENT SPONSORED by JELLYFISH
Working with leadership to plan for a successful new year
CONTENT SPONSORED by JELLYFISH
Overcoming the challenges of annual budget planning
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5 best practices for annual budget planning
Introducing new processes to your team
What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
CONTENT SPONSORED by SWARMIA
Improve planning and ideation with divergent thinking
Communicating quickly, effectively, and inclusively
Is agile still the way forward?
Using experiments to bring security into your software development life cycle
Mastering large-scale migrations
What is developer experience? Your route to better productivity
Navigating competing priorities as an engineer
CONTENT SPONSORED by SPLIT
Stop working on islands as engineers
CONTENT SPONSORED by SPLIT
How feature measurement promotes productivity and happiness
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Coding with clarity to improve developer experience
Introducing a career framework as your organization scales
What DevOps teams need to know for 2024
Amazon’s Werner Vogels on the 7 laws of cost-effective engineering
How to decide on engineering guardrails
How to keep engineering teams effective through prioritization
Upskilling teams at scale with learnathons
How to speed up code reviews
4 data recovery lessons from the British Library cyber attack
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Building a knowledge transfer strategy to manage technical debt
How business strategy can help to prioritize projects
The AI governance policy engineering managers needed yesterday
4 strategies for effectively managing stakeholders
Managing your to-do list as a staff+ engineer
How to create a ways of working agreement
What is Devin and can it really replace developers?
CONTENT SPONSORED by FRONTEGG
Why security is everyone’s responsibility
4 strategies for presenting to busy executives
The LeadDev guide to Slack etiquette
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODACY
Increase developer velocity without compromising on security
Generate buy-in with compelling engineering strategies
A guide for announcing change to your organization
How to make post-merger integrations work for everyone
Comments etiquette for requesting and giving feedback
Unleash impact using outcome-driven delivery
CONTENT SPONSORED by MULTIVERSE
Drive continuous improvement without a dedicated developer experience team
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Increase speed and reduce risk with these engineering strategies
How to keep an eye on organizational debt
Using AI to make a “sci-fi” developer experience
Building better on-call routines for engineering teams
7 steps for a smooth start-up to scale-up transition
Streamline development processes with application templates
5 lessons from CrowdStrike’s global outage
Encouraging a passion for productivity
Should the daily stand-up die?
5 top Slack tips from our community
How "you build it, you run it" improves team performance
The key to quickly unblocking decision-making
Unlocking performance management for start-ups and scale-ups
CONTENT SPONSORED by YLD
Tackling some DevOps antipatterns
CONTENT SPONSORED by SWARMIA
Introducing engineering metrics to your organization
Build a productive code review culture
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