15:00

Welcome to the LeadDev track

Welcome to LeadDev Wrapped

15:05 30 mins

Traps when spotting and growing new managers

In this talk, Javier discusses how the success of a manager depends on two things: spotting skillset fit and cultivating habitat fit.

Featuring:

Javier Cardenete Morales
Javier Cardenete Morales
Engineering Leader
15:35

Scale up: How to grow your team without growing headcount

In this talk, CJ Cenizal uses colorful AI-generated images to illustrate three stories about how he approaches this challenge.

Featuring:

CJ Cenizal
CJ Cenizal
Technical Staff Member Chronosphere
15:45

Critical components of successful delegation

This talk presents techniques to help you be prepared to delegate, sponsor, and coach your team in a way that empowers them to grow their careers and makes your load manageable.

Featuring:

Spencer Norman
Spencer Norman
VP Engineering Privy
16:15

Harassers are nice to me

Sarah Milstein looks at techniques for surfacing and addressing bad behaviour in the workplace.

Featuring:

Sarah Milstein
Sarah Milstein
VP of Engineering Daily
16:40 30 mins

Stop! Strategy time!

In this talk, Lena Reinhard shares a practical, highly applicable framework that everyone can use to become a more strategic leader. Start these concrete daily, weekly, and quarterly actions to elevate your role and think, operate, and lead more strategically.

Featuring:

Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard
Engineering Leadership & Executive Coach
17:10

Elevate engineering efficiency

LinearB demo Elevate engineering efficiency

17:20

Level up your code reviews

Denise Yu gets us thinking about code reviews in terms of different lenses to help engineers of all experience levels build a vocabulary for seeking and providing feedback in a healthy, thoughtful, and collaborative way.

Featuring:

Denise Yu
Denise Yu
Senior Engineering Manager
17:30

Rubrics cubed: Attempting to quantify the qualitative in the interview process

Shawna Martell and Dan Fike discussed how they created their rubrics and introduced them to their organization, and what they discovered about how the process has affected their hiring outcomes.

Featuring:

Shawna Martell
Shawna Martell
Senior Staff Engineer Carta
Dan Fike
Dan Fike
Senior Staff Engineer & Deputy to the CTO Carta
17:45
18:30

Explaining distributed systems like I'm five

In this talk, Michele will look at many easy examples of how a distributed architecture could virtually scale infinitely, always explaining this... like he is five!

Featuring:

Michele Riva
Michele Riva
Staff Engineer NearForm
18:40

Use your influence to build inclusive products

Use your influence to build inclusive products

Featuring:

Perry Trinier
Perry Trinier
Director of Engineering Fable
18:50

Rise of the platform (Team)

In this talk, you're going to learn what a platform team is, what they do, and why your business needs one.

Featuring:

Jem Young
Jem Young
Engineering Manager Netflix
19:20

Navigating parental leave as a senior engineering leader

In this talk, Iccha covers what she did to prepare before her parental leave, from the perspective of business, and how to keep an org functioning healthy while you are out. She also covers how she eased back into my role upon return and what you can do as managers and peers to support your coworkers on parental leave.

Featuring:

Iccha Sethi
Iccha Sethi
Engineering Director GitHub
19:30

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Going beyond the noise in technical hiring

Going beyond the noise in technical hiring

20:00

Developer productivity 2.0

In this session, Gergely will walk through a survey on how various engineering teams work, and what approaches they have found productive. You'll walk away with insights to what developer productivity means, and approaches and tools that you can experiment with.

Featuring:

Gergely Orosz
Gergely Orosz
Author The Pragmatic Engineer
20:30

People building: Career planning for your direct reports

Daniel Burke shares his playbook on career planning for your direct reports.

Featuring:

Daniel Burke
Daniel Burke
Senior Engineering Manager Twitter
21:00

Host outro

Taylor Poindexter closing statement

21:00

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