LeadDev Berlin 2019
Bringing better technical leadership to Europe's startup hub


Episodes
How to affect change without losing your job

Handling security issues as an engineering team

Making the right salary decisions for your engineering team

Writing effective technical documentation

Breaking down silos for better collaboration

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Strategies for making impossible decisions

Building blocks for architecture governance with autonomous teams

Distributed teams: how to hone connection, communication, and collaboration
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Scaling performance at the scale of Slack

Learning from incidents: from 'what went wrong?' to 'what went right?'

Lessons for frontend development at scale
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Applying software engineering practices to improve people management

Skills for first-time Lead Developers
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Welcome to LeadDev New York

Technologists: how to make decisions for your organization and our society

Fostering psychological safety in distributed teams

Welcome to StaffPlus New York

Welcome to LeadingEng New York

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Becoming an influencer (no selfies required)

Intentional influence

Healthy and effective leadership teams

Welcome to LeadDev London 2023
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Building aligned strategies

Don't try this at home. How to practice self-improvement as a senior leader

Keeping current

Getting buy-in for your transformation strategy

Engineering leadership with a little help from my friends
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Healthy and Effective Leadership Teams

Building aligned strategies

Living in the future: How leading leaders is a lot like time travel

An Eng Leaders Intro on Understanding “the Business”.
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Strategies for focusing on the most important thing

Starting a new job as a Staff+

Leveraging Your Peers as a Staff Plus Engineer: Building Peer Groups

The Art & Science of Decision Buy-In

Getting to Commitment: Tackling broad technical problems in large organizations

Driving clarity in ambiguous projects

Refactoring: Managing technical debt before it blows up in your face

Why most technology migrations fail (and what we’ve learned along the way)

Effective observability in microservice architectures
Sunsetting legacy systems: a story by Netflix

The Map Book: Visual Storytelling With Roadmaps

Software estimation - embracing nuance and controlled chaos

Instilling the built-in quality mindset into a dev team


Don't squander your inheritance: expert advice for taking over existing teams


Equipping your team to support junior developers

Paying down management debt without burning out

Death and life of great software teams

Blame, shame and panic - how not to respond when things go wrong

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


Simplify your postmortems and focus on scaling

Calling out a terrible on call system
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Bottom up org change and evolution

The practice of managing managers

Accessibility and why everything old is new again

Registration and refreshments
Refreshments
Lunch
Wrap-up
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Networking mixer
Closing remarks
What Capuchin monkeys know that engineering leaders don't
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Moon to Mars: Planning and executing for the long term

Sponsor presentation
Solving inefficiency challenges at Datacenter scale

Welcome from our Headline Sponsor

Why we are writing a monolith, not a microservice

Sorry... you go ahead. The art of making space and claiming space in meetings

Leading By Learning: The Potential of Incidents

Building Culture through Communication

Strategies for keeping current while leading the org
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Driving effective Prioritization for optimal business outcomes

The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch

Shaping culture in the engineering organization

The places you'll go: how to keep learning in leadership

Great engineers are made by great engineering teams

Everyone can contribute: Make it so!

Aligning teams through allocations

Examples are hard: Prioritizing developer experience

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LeadDev London 2022 Meetup
Lunch
Welcome to LeadingEng London
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Networking mixer
Registration and refreshments
Leading by example: Staying technical as a CTO
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A Systems Approach to Engineering Leadership

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Thanks for the feedback: How to take tough, personal feedback and use it to level-up your leadership style and create collaborative & inclusive teams

Everyone can contribute: Make it so!
Learning in the flow of work

The only two metrics you should show to your CEO

Registration and refreshments
Welcome to LeadDev Berlin 2022
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Wrap-up
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Stop! Strategy time! (...or are we really stopping?)
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Silly baboons, stubborn elephants: navigating culture differences across R&D groups

The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever

Leading through turbulence

A lean DevOps approach to learning & development

Do you really need a platform team?

Shopify's remote working toolbox

Feature flag use cases you haven't heard about yet
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The truth about burnout

Explaining distributed systems like I'm five

Lessons learned from refactors and rearchitectures

Tips for part-time project managers

Scaling engineering organizations

Leading software teams with context (visibility)

Decision making in black box scenarios

The Making of a Manager's Manager

Developer productivity 2.0

Registration & Refreshments
On call does not have to suck

Be a better partner to product management

Making personal development matter


Finding success on a team with a first-time tech lead

Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration

Wrangling Kubernetes into a developer friendly cloud platform

Understanding Time Systems Creates Successful Engineering Teams

MMMRRRRR, or approaches to leadership and execution for staff+

Effective engineering leadership growth
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How to keep learning in leadership
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Technical Strategy as a Superpower
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Choosing your village of leaders

Creating the story of your culture

Welcome to LeadDev San Francisco 2022

Registration & Refreshments
Wrap-up

Welcome to LeadingEng San Francisco
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Wrap-up
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Better engineering through business understanding

How managers can successfully lead their teams through change

Strengthening company alignment

Rise of the platform (Team)

It’s lonely at the top - How do you build your support network from there?

Bridging the Dev-Sec divide: Three tips for agile developers

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Becoming a manager somewhere else

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Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark

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Operational data meet organization silos

Assess beyond functional correctness and improve hiring funnel throughput

The only two metrics you should show to your CEO

Why Operations Matter

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Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you: A highlight reel of team fun
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Rise of the platform (Team)

Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams

Scale up: How to grow your team without growing headcount

Critical components of successful delegation

Controlling Cloud Costs with Culture

MMMRRRRR, or approaches to leadership and execution for staff+

Practical additive hiring for any team

No more heroes: User experience design for incident response

Navigating parental leave as a senior engineering leader

Trends in Cloud-Native Performance & Efficiency

You Can Write Devastatingly Effective Docs

Influencing organizational change without hurting your day job: a playbook

Building effective engineering teams; lessons from 10 years at Google

There’s no “I” in learning from incidents.

Organizational Change Through The Power Of Why - DevSecOps Enablement

Towards global and human-centered explanations for machine learning models

How a year in engineering leadership has made me a better individual contributor

Understanding Time Systems Creates Successful Engineering Teams

Traps when spotting and growing new managers

Wrangling Kubernetes into a developer friendly cloud platform

Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration

Finding success on a team with a first-time tech lead

Becoming a manager somewhere else

Be a better partner to product management

Making personal development matter


Scaling engineering organizations

Transitioning from synchronous to asynchronous (and somewhere between)

Bridging the Dev-Sec divide: Three tips for agile developers

Leading software teams with context (visibility)

Decision making in black box scenarios

Leading as an introvert

Debugging debugging; why we must approach debugging differently

On call does not have to suck

Silly baboons, stubborn elephants: navigating culture differences across R&D groups

Setting goals as a senior individual contributor

Fight back against imposter syndrome

The role of data in green software engineering

Leading software teams with systems thinking

The making of a manager's manager

Technical documentation - how can I write them better and why should I care?

The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever

Tackling the toppling tech talent pyramid: a radical challenge to building diverse teams

Leading through turbulence

A lean DevOps approach to learning & development

Do you really need a platform team?

Shopify's remote working toolbox

Feature flag use cases you haven't heard about yet
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Integrating an expert solo developer into a development team
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Developer productivity 2.0

Explaining distributed systems like I'm five

Lessons learned from refactors and rearchitectures

Tips for part-time project managers

It’s lonely at the top - How do you build your support network from there?

How managers can successfully lead their teams through change

Creating the story of your culture

Better engineering through business understanding

Technical Strategy as a Superpower
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How to keep learning in leadership
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Effective engineering leadership growth
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Assess beyond functional correctness and improve hiring funnel throughput

The only two metrics you should show to your CEO

Operational data meet organization silos

How much should staff+ engineers code?
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Leading without authority: an example from security engineering

Embedding on teams as a staff+ individual contributor

Building effective relationships
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Say no to burnout and stand up for yourself

Building koi pond: simulating millions of slack clients

Strategies for cloud migration

How successful hackathons increase belonging, decrease anxiety and help people imagine new identities in tech

The (updated) story of why we migrate to gRPC and how we go about it

Enabling the motivated: Facilitating role switches smoothly

Healing your teams after layoffs

Building healthier mission-focused organizations

Setting up your team for success during your extended absence
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How to kill your team’s product

Using a learning-themed retrospective to strengthen your team’s learning culture and reduce learning debt

Are we building engineering platforms using the right metrics?

Scaling yourself: Increasing your scope and impact as an engineering manager (without just working harder)

Behind the curtain: Two sides of senior leadership
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Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters

What is tech policy and how you can get involved

Combating the confidence gap: Case studies in tech recruiting

Lower your stress and your team's stress by being ready for turnover
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Concise and effective feedback: Applying the learnings of DORA4 to communication
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Moving quickly inside a large organization
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Terraform practices to enable infrastructure scaling

Everything is a migration: Putting evolutionary architecture into practice

Leading as an engineering manager

Let them learn! How to nurture great software engineers

Networking: The map is not the territory

LeadingEng New York 2023 Wrap-up

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Welcome to StaffPlus New York 2023

Lunch
StaffPlus New York 2023 Wrap-up

LeadDev New York 2023 Wrap-up

Making the manager of manager's mindset

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Doing the right thing, better: How to lead with efficiency in mind
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Leading from Incidents: How past incidents can be used to guide company decisions

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From zero to "Brands that Matter" - improving scientific discovery during a pandemic

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Shifting the mindset of delegation - Your secret weapon to leadership at scale

Building an effective technical strategy

People, get ready: Investing in collegial relationships to build better commercial awareness

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How inclusive leaders stay current

The framework of you: Strategies beyond a growth mindset

Career vectors - CTO flavours: Mixing & matching skillsets
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Red 2.0: Transforming a Game Company

How to be a successful female lead engineer

What Do You Mean There’s No Onboarding Plan for Engineering Managers?

Compassionate on-call

Making the Move to Manager: Common Pitfalls for New Engineering Leaders


Code is Poetry
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How I learned to stop worrying about Developer Productivity and love Developer Thriving

"I'm happy where I am" - Supporting team members that aren't seeking progression

How to drive pace in your team 🏃🏽♀️

How we support making architectural decisions

Exit Plans and How to Talk About Them

Platform engineering is all about product

How to effectively “Spike” a complex technical project

Riding the rollercoaster of emotions

Cultural post mortems: an approach to learning and recovering when your people systems fail

Feature flags unleashed

Build a data-driven on-call workflow for your team with atomic habits
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Keeping your team health after a layoff

Parents who code: How to welcome your developers back after parental leave

Creating inclusive career ladders
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Building for the Underserved, Solving for All

Driving positive change through Performance Improvement Plans

Upskill Your Engineers Strategically: How to Conduct a Needs Analysis to Identify What Your Engineering Teams Need to Learn

The awful agony of the app store: When software delivery goes wrong

Practical Systems Thinking for Software Engineers

Solving the puzzle of staff+ time management

Librarian's Guide to Documentation

Building a diverse and inclusive guild from the ground up

Building a shared vision: Creating alignment across autonomous teams

Scaling Your Influence through Documentation

Working sideways

Setting goals as a staff+ engineer

Scaling your influence when you can only be in one place at once
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Exerting Incremental Engineering Influence

Defining Expectations of Staff Engineers

The dark side of lessons learned

Defining a technical vision

Maps to Medicines: One Map to an Atlas

Engineering transparency

Why Onboarding to a Company's Legacy Codebase Sucks, and How to Make it Work for Your Team

Maximizing your impact when context-switching

The Dark Side of Standardization

Putting down line management; returning to an individual contributor role

How to level up as an engineer while doing what you love

Orchestrating thousands of bots from the cloud

The Journey of a Byline

What to do after being laid off: Lessons on being my own CEO for a change

Building bridges: The art of crafting seamless partnerships between engineering, product, and design


Organizational resilience

The 9.1 Magnitude Meltdown at Fukushima
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Homebrew’s Great Migration: Moving to GitHub Packages with Zero Downtime
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Delivering a Digital First BBC - An Architects Perspective
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Welcome to StaffPlus London 2023

Cloud infrastructure architecture for Nubank’s global expansion

Filling the jar of impact and trust as a Principal Engineer
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Working on software that is older than you

Unmasking Imposters by Debugging Doubts

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Running large scale migrations continuously

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Navigating Complex Projects: Finding the Right Mode of Operation

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