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Inside the tech overhaul of Big Brother’s voting system
The real-life issues engineers faced behind the scenes while implementing a user verification solution for Big Brother.
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The CrowdStrike disaster is a lesson about testing
What’s been dubbed the world’s biggest IT outage should be a wakeup call to the industry.
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How low (level) can you go
Learn how mastering low-level systems and components can make you the go-to engineer for tough problems and drive product success.
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How test coverage can improve code quality
As teams get bigger and the need for faster velocity increases, code quality can be difficult to uphold. Use these techniques from Michael Tweed, a principal software engineer at Skyscanner, to help.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Essential reading
How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process
Taking code quality beyond documentation and into the fabric of your team’s work.
On our Software Quality playlist
Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality
Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation
Metrics – a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact
As managers or senior leaders, this talk will give you a primer for leveraging metrics for the objectives you seek, outcomes you desire, and the behaviors you want to incentivize or disincentivize within your engineering organization.
A guide to creating a great code documentation culture
If your teams are struggling with code documentation, watch this on-demand webinar, where our panel of engineering leaders will discuss best practices and strategies to get started. Code documentation is often viewed as a necessary evil by development teams. There’s no doubt that mastering the art of creating…
Building a better testing culture
How can engineering leaders create a healthy testing culture with clear strategies in place?
Take back control of code quality
In this talk, Joel Chippindale shares stories from his experiences in leading engineering teams that illustrate the dynamics between team members and with stakeholders that lead teams to lose control of code quality.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Software Quality
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A guide to measuring and improving code quality
How to define, measure, and keep up the quality of your codebases.
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Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews
You don’t have time to review every pull request. Here’s how to empower developers to perform code reviews instead.
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How to get engineering teams on board with accessibility
To build products that are usable for all, developers need to prioritize accessibility testing. Here’s how to get teams on board.
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Why the most advanced technology solution isn’t always the correct one
The right idea might come at the wrong time. Here’s why the most technologically advanced solution might not always be the right one.
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Born-left security: The new approach taking over shift-left
Born-left allows developers to fully own the security process. Here’s what you need to know about the emerging trend.
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Introducing AIOps: The new trend for repairing software issues
Leveraging AI and machine learning to speed up software repairs
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How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles
Empowering your teams to make good decisions quickly
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Introducing quality ratchets: A tool for managing complex systems
Using ratchets to improve the quality of your software
Top Software Quality Videos
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Making code review a more inclusive & productive collaboration
Shifalika will talk about why we need to focus on the social aspects of code review, the best practices around it and discuss concrete ways to promote inclusive code reviews.
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Ways your teams can (realistically) prioritize code quality
Code matters – learn how to create a culture of quality in your organisation
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Development setup: how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked
Gus Fune shares a story of three different developers and how their preferred setup was causing them to struggle in delivering.
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Sustainable means performant
Alex Canessa looks at how to reduce your website’s impact and improve your users’ experience, whilst designing and building with sustainability in mind.
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Compassionate Refactoring
Claire Sudbery talks about kindness and forgiveness, and the paradox that the more you accept and handle bad code, the more likely it is that you will end up with good code.
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Engineering a product for diverse markets
Grygoriy Gonchar shares his experience in building highly localized products in fintech, e-commerce, and classified industries.
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Taking the 737 to the MAX!
Nick Means uses the power of systems thinking to dig into how things could’ve gone so wrong (and learn to better see and understand the systems we interact with every day).
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Outputs vs Outcomes: Driving and defining quality in software development
Gabby Llanillo covers the value she added as a quality owner on her own game development teams and how aligning with her team early in the process to define what “good” looks like, significantly improves both the quality of the games and the relationship with the players.