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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 Harness
How 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.
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The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics
Which commonly-used metrics aren’t working and why?
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A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
Combining tracing, metrics, and logs into a single stream of data.
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What is observability and why should you care?
Faster and more effective monitoring with OpenTelemetry
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The toolbox of engineering metrics for distributed teams
Measurements to steer your team in the right direction