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Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
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Enhance product development with data-driven decisions
Data isn’t the be-all and end-all, but there are some important things you have to get right to get the most out of it.
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Content sponsored by Swarmia
Introducing engineering metrics to your organization
Picking the right software developer metrics isn’t as easy as it sounds.
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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?
Editor’s picks
What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.
How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
A deep dive to help you and your team achieve what really matters.
November 5, 2025
A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.
Essential reading
The LeadDev Engineering Team Performance Report 2023
In 2023, LeadDev teamed up with Swarmia to survey more than 600 engineering managers to find out how organizations measure their team performance, and uncover the biggest challenges they face in doing so.
On our Reporting playlist
Don’t let metrics be a distraction
Setting and tracking metrics can be a tempting solution for many situations. In this talk, Jean Hsu covers a few common scenarios and how to integrate metrics with other approaches to get your desired results.
Metrics to measure developer experience
Tim will be exploring micro-feedback loops, taking a look at low level friction, how it can quickly compound to affect motivation and productivity.
Reporting effectively to the board
Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.
Concise and effective feedback: Applying the learnings of DORA4 to communication
David LaMothe discusses a model much like the DORA4 model, except instead of focusing on metrics like time to merge and rate of recovery, focusing on personally developed metrics for feedback that ensures he is giving it early and often.
Choosing 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.
That’s a wrap Berlin!
Catch-up on all the Lead Berlin 2024 talks with a digital pass.
More about Reporting
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The relationship between observability, OpenTelemetry, and UX
The missing piece to improving your user experience might just be adopting an observability strategy.
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Observability for engineering managers
Observability goes beyond logs, metrics, and traces, and it’s up to you as a manager of engineers to set out the vision and policies to make that possible.
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How to pay down your monitoring debt
Monitoring debt leads to alert fatigue and increased operational risk, is it time you performed an alert audit and got your monitoring in order?
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Using cooperative gaming to drive positive engineering change
Gaming engineering metrics doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Here’s a model for cooperative gaming to drive positive technology change.
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The workflow metrics that make elite dev teams
DORA metrics aren’t enough on their own. By focusing on pull request size, dev teams can quickly improve their cycle times and development workflow and make the leap to elite performance.
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Why traditional observability tools aren’t cutting it anymore
Traditional observability solutions aren’t designed with engineers in mind. Here’s why companies are switching to developer-first tools.
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Using success metrics to foster autonomy in engineering teams
How to use success criteria to set expectations and empower developers.
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Want to accelerate incident response? Empower customer service teams.
Great customer service requires alignment between CSOps and DevOps. Here’s how to bring them closer together.
Top Reporting videos
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The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
In this session, Dan Lines will give you the two metrics that matter most when answering the two most important questions.
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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.
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The role of data in green software engineering
In this talk, Simon will go into detail about the planning of infrastructure and systems in both backend and frontend to reduce the environmental impact.
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Leading software teams with context (visibility)
In this talk, James will ground discussion on obtaining and measuring data that matters to give you visibility into your teams.
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The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
Which two metrics that matter most when answering the questions of is the project on time and how can we speed it up?
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Reporting effectively to the board
Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.
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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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Effective observability in microservice architectures
Lesley Cordero focuses on which observability practices and microservice architecture patterns align well and set microservice organizations up for success.