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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.
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Leveling up your machine learning product by taking the leap to third-party
A journey of build vs. buy
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Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy
Discussions on reaching a decision that is right for your organization.
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The search for the best solution: third party or open source?
What does the journey look like when you’ve decided to buy?
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140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
Exploring the tug of war between build and buy
Top Software Quality Videos
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Investing in your accessibility workflow
There’s no arguing that building accessible websites is a force for good. Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, ought to have the right to participate on the web.
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Dealing with overheads as an engineering leader
There are many super-important roles in software teams that are also financial overhead, e.g. QA, Support and Bugfix. They’re necessary, but they require people that would otherwise be working directly on business goals.
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Seven key considerations in early development
It’s empowering for developers and other people involved in the inception of a project to have tools for making the project better long-term.
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How to estimate as as an engineering leader
Estimating time is like packing for a long holiday. No matter how hard you try, you always feel like you forgot something important.
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5 Features of a Good API
Everyone is writing APIs from micro-services through to full applications, but what makes a good one?
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How to automate a11y testing
Are you still testing accessibility by hand? Or worse, have a dedicated person doing so? Stop! Now!
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Building Tech for the Non-Technical
Everyone has blindspots. For developers it is often taking for granted certain technical skill sets.