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LeadingEng London 2024 videos
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Growing engineering managers: Breaking down the monolith
This talk will delve into the intricacies of being an effective engineering manager by dissecting the multifaceted role into distinct components. Chiranjiv will explore technical excellence, people management, and delivery, breaking down each aspect into manageable units that can be employed for evaluation and strategic planning.
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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.
November 5, 2025
A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.
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Content sponsored by LinearBAchieving engineering velocity by optimising developer experience
Engineering teams face compounding pressures to meet business objectives while maintaining operational excellence. The last year, in particular, has forced engineering leaders to maximize productivity with limited resources, forcing them to search for solutions to improve engineering velocity.
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In anticipation of change: Strategies for engineering leaders to stay current and effective
One of the toughest challenges you face as an engineering leader is staying current while preparing yourself and your teams for change.
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Friends don’t let friends debug their leadership skills in production
In this talk, Hywel will discuss the skills needed as engineers progress on different career paths (both technical leadership and people management), and how they can be learned outside the ‘production environment’ of the team.
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What’s my job again? Developing self-management
The more we move up the org chart, the less input we’ll get from our own managers, and the more we need to expand our range as a leader to be successful.
November 5, 2025
A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.
Videos from previous years of LeadDev London
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Making transformation work
Chris Pilsworth looks at the challenges that organisations can face, the ways to get support for your initiatives and make the transformation a success.
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Tackling software engineering leaders’ dual mandate
In this 5-minute talk, we’ll discuss what is the engineering leaders’ dual mandate and three focus areas that enable you to successfully achieve it in a VPE role.
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Increase the opportunity for success and diversity in your software engineering teams through professional apprenticeships
Marco Zanchi explores the challenges posed by the skills shortage and the pivotal role professional apprenticeships play in bridging the gap with the most important asset of any organisation: its people.
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Less is more: Tool consolidation for more performance of your testing
Yi Min Yang explores how in the wake of the ongoing global economic situation, organizations across the globe have been grappling with the impact on their software development and expenditure.
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Organizational resilience
André Kenji Horie discusses how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.
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The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset
In this talk, Dan Blundell will help you explore ways to understand yourself and your own capabilities in the infinite quest to be better by applying familiar engineering patterns and practices to your own development.
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How inclusive leaders stay current
Payam Azadi looks at how as senior leaders with busy lives and diverse teams, how can we best approach staying up to date? In this presentation, I’ll break down how to identify the right goals and opportunities for learning, and useful strategies you can use to reach them.
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Engineering, everywhere, all at once: rethinking value as an engineering leader
Christian Wong looks at how applying some simple techniques – adapted from product discovery – we can identify potential areas of opportunity, position ourselves to act with more intent in our collegial relationships, and then engage in a way that allows us to build the knowledge and context we need.
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Building an effective technical strategy
Sarah Wells looks at the many things your team could do over the next year or two. How do you decide which of them to prioritize? Documenting your strategy is important, but it’s only the first step. You need to communicate it effectively so that people can use it to make decisions. And finally, you need to track your progress: are you delivering what you need to? Is the strategy still the right one?
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Shifting the mindset of delegation – Your secret weapon to leadership at scale
Marta Jasinska gives you some tools that will help you understand the challenges ahead and techniques I developed over years for moving past them.
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Shaping culture in the engineering organization
How to you ensure diversity, equity, and belonging are fundamental parts of your culture.
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The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch
How to make sure that you don’t lose sight of your original technical strategy when creating a new product
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The practice of managing managers
Learn how to coach your managers to execute the company’s shared vision, as your responsibilities – and distractions – continue to multiply.
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Career Vectors – CTO Flavors: Mixing & Matching Skillsets
Learn how to define your own personal development plan as a CTO
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Building aligned strategies
Camille Fournier discusses the key elements for building an alignment that balances the needs of both your team and your company.
