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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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In partnership with 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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From monitoring to mastery: Building an observability-driven culture
This talk explores how Phorest shifted to an observability-driven culture by aligning technical vision with customer pain, empowering teams through proactive ownership, and embedding observability into software practices to enhance customer trust.
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Escaping the rewrite trap
Gain practical frameworks to assess rewrites vs. evolution, plan successful migrations, and align teams and stakeholders without losing momentum.
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Technical Steering Groups: Balancing autonomy, technical alignment, and speed through strategic collaboration
Learn how technical steering groups drive technical alignment while fostering ownership – balancing autonomy and collaboration to fuel speed, innovation, and impactful decision-making across teams.
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10 things nobody tells you about OKRs
OKRs are a simple – and useful – sounding idea, but in practice, there are all kinds of troubles people get bogged down in. Here are ten, rarely mentioned, things that can help.
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Becoming an AI Engineering company
Learn how to operationalize AI across your organization to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and stay ahead in a competitive market
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The million dollar bug: Quality leadership lessons from costly failures
CrowdStrike lost $5.4B, Sonos stumbled into a $500M crisis – and they’re not alone. Learn battle-tested leadership strategies to protect your organization from quality catastrophes that can shake your business to its core.
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Optimization of mobile development strategy for maximum business impact
Learn how to optimize mobile strategy—tech choices, team structure, and processes—for faster delivery, scalability, and measurable business results
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Tracking repository health at scale
Discover how data-driven repository health tracking improves visibility, drives behavior change, and aligns engineering efforts with long-term business goals.
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How Monzo tolerates full cloud outages
Learn how Monzo built a fully independent backup bank to ensure 24/7 reliability—even during full cloud outages
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Becoming AI engineers
Discover how to build reliable, high-impact AI features—tools, patterns, and team practices that make AI integration truly transformative
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Monolith-ifying perfectly good microservices
Learn why consolidating microservices into a Rails monolith boosted performance, reduced complexity, and helped Intercom scale more efficiently
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How to make the perfect decision
Master decision-making in software architecture with frameworks that drive alignment, reduce risk, and deliver meaningful, context-aware outcomes
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In partnership with VercelHow to maintain a codebase – when everyone can code
Learn how to maintain platform performance with machine-first observability, enabling AI agents to monitor and repair production systems.
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Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, tricks, and techniques
Unlock best practices for deploying self-hosted LLMs—optimize performance, ensure reliability, and tackle real-world challenges in critical industries
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Organizational evolution: From products to user needs
A practical guide to evolving an engineering organization from functional to product-based to user-centric – rooted in real experiences at Flo Health.
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One does not simply… rebuild a product
Get hard-won insights from Culture Amp’s bold rebuild—reviving legacy systems while elevating engineering standards and enabling future growth
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Everything you always wanted to know about game engines
Learn how to leverage game engines like Unity and Unreal to accelerate innovation in AI, robotics, simulation, and beyond
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From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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Dressing to the 9s
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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In partnership with EppoFrom 0 to 10,000 experiments
Transform your team into a learning engine with experimentation, feature flags, and safer, insight-driven deployments at scale.
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In praise of “normal engineers”
Why building an engineering org that enables “normal” engineers to thrive is a bigger advantage than chasing top talent.
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Fast, informed, impactful: How to master decision-making
Master the art of efficient decision-making and turn slow, ineffective engineering decisions into a powerful competitive advantage.
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Were our values a lie? Leading teams through diversity’s collapse
As industry shifts impact diversity, leaders must stay true to their values. This talk provides strategies to uphold your principles, build resilience, and foster inclusivity and trust, even when the company no longer prioritizes them.
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So you want to hire engineering force multipliers?
10x engineers, platform engineering, infrastructure, DevEx… What do they have in common?
They’re hard to hire, easily burned out, difficult to grow, and likely to fail. Let’s talk about how to do it right.