Upcoming events
Join us throughout 2025 for inspiring conferences, workshops, webinars and courses
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
A festival of engineering leadership
Upcoming webinars
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Riding the IC, management career pendulum
March 18, 2025 • 5.00PMConsidering a career on a different track this year?
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How to master the perfect pull request
March 26, 2025 • 5.00PMPull requests are an essential part of collaborative development, but one that’s often rushed or fraught for teams juggling increasing workloads and competing priorities.
Recent recordings
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Content sponsored by Harness
Escaping your DIY Feature Flags
Feature flags, how difficult can it be? But now it’s day two, and suddenly you’re in the feature flag business.
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Hiring in 2025: quality over quantity
Strategies for hiring smarter in a recovering market.
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How to be an influential leader
The most successful engineering leaders know that influence is the key to driving results, getting buy-in, and getting the task done.
A festival of engineering leadership by LeadDev
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
the talks, the connections, the experience
Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Manager, Senior IC, Director, VP, or CTO, you’ll leave with ideas and strategies to drive change.
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Highlights from our recent events
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Bottom up org change and evolution
It’s expected for the structure of your teams and organization to change as you grow.
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Growing the next generation of leaders: Levelling up your teams
Dana discusses how you can identify the skill gaps in your teams and support your managers as they transition to leadership.
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Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.
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Alignment, autonomy, accountability
Explore essential management principles that build trust, enhance team engagement, and support smooth progress, equipping leaders with strategies to guide without micromanaging.
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It’s time to pay off your management debt
Explore management debt’s impact on organizations, uncovering inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Learn actionable strategies to identify, track, and eliminate management debt for sustainable growth.
Recent webinars
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Content sponsored by HarnessEscaping your DIY Feature Flags
Feature flags, how difficult can it be? But now it’s day two, and suddenly you’re in the feature flag business.
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How to be an influential leader
The most successful engineering leaders know that influence is the key to driving results, getting buy-in, and getting the task done.
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Content sponsored by HarnessProve the value of platform engineering
How to justify the cost of your biggest engineering investment.
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Content sponsored by incident.ioBuilding the dream incident response team
Struggling with incidents? It could be time to assemble an elite response team.
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Content sponsored by CoderThe perils of context switching
Studies show that it can take 20 minutes to regain focus after a distraction, but what can engineering leaders do to help engineers switch context less often and find flow?
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Content sponsored by CloudZeroOptimizing cloud costs: Whose job is it anyway?
Who really owns cloud costs? In many organizations, the answer still isn’t clear.
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Content sponsored by HarnessCrafting the perfect developer platform
From your IDE to CI/CD, where is best to buy vs build?
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Content sponsored by O’ReillyThe metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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Content sponsored by SwarmiaWhat are qualitative productivity metrics – and how do we measure them?
If your team is hitting key delivery metrics, we assume everything in the lifecycle before production is sound. However, we know that traditional metrics only tell half the story.
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Content sponsored by O’ReillyHelping your engineers find time to learn and upskill
Webinar recording: discover how to support your engineers to learn and practice new skills.
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Content sponsored by CircleCIHow to build experimentation into your technical roadmap
This webinar is for engineering leaders who believe that a strong culture of experimentation drives innovation – and who want to convince peers and stakeholders that it should be part of your technical strategy
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Content sponsored by SwimmA roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Gain expert insights on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer satisfaction, streamlining discovery, and effectively documenting complex, large-scale codebases for better productivity and collaboration.
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Content sponsored by HarnessIs infrastructure as code still fit for purpose?
Explore challenges with Infrastructure as Code, strategies to optimize its management, roles of DevOps teams, and tools for scaling complex multi-cloud environments effectively.
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Content sponsored by Split by HarnessFail fast, learn faster: Real lessons from failed software releases
Discover real lessons from failed software releases. Learn to manage tech debt, improve communication, and ensure successful rollouts with insights from industry experts.
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Content sponsored by Logz.ioAn engineer’s guide to making sense of log data
Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but how do you make sense of them?
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Content sponsored by StatsigHow to grow and scale your feature management process
What’s your approach to releasing and managing new features?
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Content sponsored by ChainguardDoes ‘shifting security left’ really work?
“Shifting security left” is a term in modern DevOps that refers to the practice of integrating security measures earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
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Content sponsored by SpaceliftWhat is developer self-service, and does your org need it?
In this webinar, we hear from engineering leaders who have built developer self service ecosystems, and lessons they learned along the way.
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Content sponsored by Split by HarnessSpeed vs safety: Should we rethink the way we release software?
In this webinar, we ask if it’s possible for engineering leaders to prioritize speed of delivery and proper safety practices.
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How to overcome feeling isolated as a senior engineering leader
Last month, we brought together a panel of engineering leaders to dive into the realities of leadership loneliness and share actionable strategies to combat it.
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Content sponsored by incident.ioHow does context switching impact team productivity?
In this panel, we’ll dig into why unmanaged context switching is detrimental, and ways you can help developers handle interruptions, and reach (and maintain) a state of focus and flow.
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Content sponsored by 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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Content sponsored by 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.
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How to get promoted beyond staff engineer
This month, we’ll be discussing how to promote to the next staff+ level in your organization.
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Content sponsored by HarnessHow to identify and fix CI pipeline problems
Our panel of engineering leaders will discuss how you can identify and remedy the most common CI pipeline difficulties, and how you can make sure they aren’t blocking your teams.
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Content sponsored by DXMeasuring developer productivity with DORA, SPACE, or DevEx
Join us for this webinar, where we’ll discuss how engineering leaders can measure and boost team performance using three well-known engineering productivity frameworks.
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Content sponsored by ApolloHow to implement platform engineering at scale
In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.
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Content sponsored by PantheonWhat does a ‘modern’ DevOps culture actually look like?
DevOps as we know it is constantly evolving. In this webinar, we find out if the latest trends are worth the hype.
