LDX3 London video hub
All the videos from our London events
LDX3 London 2025 videos
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Don’t drop the baton, or how a team that communicates well collaborates well
Effective team communication shapes company culture at all levels. In this talk, we’ll explore habits, principles, and frameworks to foster healthy communication patterns.
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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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Videos from previous years of LeadDev London
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How we support making architectural decisions
Olena Sovyn takes a deep dive from the principles based on which this group operates to the specific how-to that made its work beneficial for the company and shares what we’ve learned from this whole experience so far.
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How to drive pace in your team ??♀️
Alicia Collymore delivers actionable advice that’ll help you to improve your teams’ delivery and pace without a data-first approach.
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“I’m happy where I am” – Supporting team members that aren’t seeking progression
Ryan MacGillivray talks about how realistically not everyone can or wants to be a Lead Engineer/Engineering Manager/Staff Engineer and nor should we be pushing people into roles they either have no interest in or have done before and not enjoyed.
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Where we’re going wrong with developer productivity
Cat Hicks proposes a different, science-backed approach to productivity using research evidence from a study with 1200+ developers: developer thriving.
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Code is poetry
Niranjan Uma Shankar talks about how to write good readable code, ticket descriptions, bug patches, et al, in PHP and Javascript.
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Making the move to manager: Common pitfalls for new engineering leaders
Jacqueline Pan and Marlena Lui focus on challenges involved with people leadership: – How to rebrand yourself as a new engineering leader – How to build trust with a new team without prior experience or credibility – How to delegate effectively – How to balance proactive leadership without micromanaging.
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Compassionate on-call
Lisa Karlin Curtis discusses how to build a compassionate on-call rota, and how that can help build sustainable and high performing teams.
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Strategies for succeeding as a underrepresented engineering leader
Rafia Qutab Kilian will draw on her experience as a Lead Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and as a woman to provide strategies for how to succeed at work, alongside her own stories of how she put these into practice.
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Red 2.0: Transforming a game company
Colin Walder takes a look at how the Tech Team at CD Projekt applied the Red 2.0 Manifesto as part of a company-wide transformation after the release of Cyberpunk 2077.
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How to bring accessibility into your teams
Laveena Ramchandani focuses on accessibility testing and how it is vital especially when your product is a user-facing application. We need to be socially aware as a team and build quality towards our product by making it more accessible.
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Development setup: how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked
Gus Fune shares a story of three different developers and how their preferred setup was causing them to struggle in delivering.
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What Dashboards Don’t Tell You
Laura Tacho explains how to spot vanity metrics in the wild, and learn what to measure instead, so you can create an environment where your engineers can excel.
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How to build trust as a new manager in a fully remote team
Sadhana Gopal talks about some of the opportunities and challenges represented by this new way of working. She will also deconstruct a 90 day plan for a new manager leading digitally on what they should focus on, be wary of and how they can make this journey an enjoyable one, setting them up for success.
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Be the catalyst in a junior engineer’s career
A career is a marathon, not a sprint. We often see rapid burnout in the industry. What preventative steps can we take as managers to ensure that Junior software engineers are not just surviving, but thriving?
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Seven surprisingly simple ways to stem burnout
Anna Granta shares seven surprisingly simple ways to stem burnout, so that you can sleep better, be healthier, and enjoy deeper relationships.
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Scaling your mobile app release process
Neil Kimmett discusses strategies to iterate on your app release process, software tools that can help you, and how to reorient your organization for a mobile-first world.
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Success isn’t repeatable
Hywel Carver looks at how leaders are responsible for meeting their organisation’s goals by ensuring their team has the capabilities it needs to succeed. And managers are responsible for ensuring their reports continue to develop and improve.
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Scale, Scale, Scale! (Lessons from an engineering recruitment drive)
Jenny Sivapalan presents a set of actionable items that you can own and make a difference in hiring into your team.
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CSS: Cascading Support Systems
Phil Bennett talks about how he has adapted basic principles like Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and applied them to be able to support my managers, and their reports dealing with empathy at scale.
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Key aspects of managing senior engineers
Katja Lotz has found that there are certain focus areas of your leadership that often provide value for senior engineers. These values include deciphering organizational complexity, nurturing the multiplier effect and providing opportunities.
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Career Changers: enabling the huge untapped potential in developers from different backgrounds
Marcus Gardiner shares lessons and personal perspectives from walking the path from Graduate to Lead in both Business and Software Engineering, so that your team and organisation can thrive through attracting and developing Career-Switching Tech talent.
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Sustainable means performant
Alex Canessa looks at how to reduce your website’s impact and improve your users’ experience, whilst designing and building with sustainability in mind.
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Navigating the minefield of changing working relationships when stepping into leadership
Humayra Hanif provides recommendations in order to succeed as a new leader and emphasises the importance of collecting feedback from your team, and understanding more about their motivations.
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Compassionate Refactoring
Claire Sudbery talks about kindness and forgiveness, and the paradox that the more you accept and handle bad code, the more likely it is that you will end up with good code.