Upcoming events
Join us throughout 2024 for inspiring conferences, workshops, webinars and courses
November 4 & 5, 2024
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
November 5, 2024
A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.
Upcoming webinars
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Content sponsored by CircleCIHow to build experimentation into your technical roadmap
December 12, 2024 • 5.00PMExperimentation is core to innovation and continuous improvement. But how can you put this into practice?
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Content sponsored by O’ReillyFinding the time to learn and upskill
December 5, 2024 • 5.00PMIn order to perform at their best, engineering teams need to keep up with the latest industry tools and technologies.
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Content sponsored by SwarmiaWhat are qualitative productivity metrics – and how do we measure them?
December 10, 2024 • 5.00PMIf 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.
Recent recordings
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Content sponsored by Swimm
A roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Legacy code is often a source of frustration – for developers and leadership alike.
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Content sponsored by Split by Harness
Fail fast, learn faster: real lessons from failed software releases
Releasing software is a critical milestone for engineering teams, but it doesn’t always go to plan.
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How to master change and drive impactful transformation
Change is inevitable—but leading it effectively is a game-changer.
November 4 & 5, 2024
LeadDev Berlin is full of pragmatic ideas and real-world insight that shows you how to create high-performance engineering teams
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Our next conferences
November 5, 2024
A day covering the most pressing issues for senior engineering leaders. An opportunity to step back from your day-to-day, hear practice-led talks, build your peer network and make a plan to deliver impact for your organization.
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Join us for talks and networking
We run free events year round in cities all over the world
Highlights from our recent events
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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.
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Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.
Recent webinars
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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 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.
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Content sponsored by HarnessDoes your org need platform engineering?
The panel digs into what the approach looks like in practice, and ask whether platform engineering really holds the key to unlocking happy and productive teams. You will leave this session with a better understanding of what platform engineering really is, how it relates to developer happiness, and whether it’s the right route to go down for your org.
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Content sponsored by LinearBAn engineering leader’s guide to reporting up
There’s no rulebook when it comes to how to report to your senior leadership team – but there are ways that you can feel more prepared, confident, and ready to showcase engineering’s impact.
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Content sponsored by PantheonBreaking down silos between frontend and backend
Join us for this panel, where we explore how can managers help break down cultural and technical silos, and foster better collaboration between these critical teams.
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Content sponsored by HarnessHow to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.
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Content sponsored by PluralsightChoosing metrics your teams won’t hate
In this panel, we’ll explore how to go about choosing the metrics that accurately capture the complexity and nuances of your team’s work.
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Content sponsored by X-TeamEssential soft skills you need to succeed as an engineer
There is a big focus on technical expertise in software engineering – but soft skills are equally as important. Which ones are crucial to master and how can you do this?
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How to become a staff+ engineer
What do you need to be able to demonstrate to get promoted to a staff engineer?
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How to communicate effectively as an IC
How can ICs communicate the same piece of information effectively to different audiences?
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Content sponsored by FronteggHelp your engineering, product and security teams get on the same page
How can teams find alignment among competing priorities?
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Content sponsored by KaratWhat is the role of the engineering manager in the hiring process?
How can time-strapped engineering managers juggle hiring responsibilities alongside their day to day?
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Content sponsored by CodacyHow can engineering orgs move fast without compromising code security
An interview with Jaime Jorge from Codacy
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Content sponsored by CodacyTaking the risk out of software experimentation
How do we remain competitive as a business without exposing ourselves to risk?
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Content sponsored by SwimmA guide to creating a great code documentation culture
If your teams are struggling with code documentation, watch this on-demand webinar, where our panel of engineering leaders will discuss best practices and strategies to get started. Code documentation is often viewed as a necessary evil by development teams. There’s no doubt that mastering the art of creating…
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Content sponsored by ChronosphereMaking cloud native work for your org
How can enterprises make the leap to cloud native? What do they need to know?
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Content sponsored by SabreHow enterprises can overcome the challenges of legacy code
How can enterprise engineering teams tackle the challenges of modernizing outdated codebases?
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Stress free onboarding as a Staff+ engineer
What can you do to create an efficient onboarding process for yourself stepping into a Staff+ role?
