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Technical direction

Technical direction

Making better technical and architectural decisions

On our Technical Direction playlist

Lutz Hühnken

Managing architecture

Lutz Hühnken talks about the importance of a strategic approach to software architecture, that prevents teams from becoming architecture firefighters, who spent an excessive amount of energy applying short-term fixes to architectural problems.

Jonathan Maltz

Technical Vision vs. Technical Strategy: The difference and why it matters

Jonathan Maltz digs into the nuts and bolts of setting a successful technical strategy. Startin by talking about the difference between technical vision and technical strategy.

Content sponsored by CoderPad

Writing your technical strategy

Bruce Wang talks about Writing your technical strategy (psst, it doesn’t have to feel like a Squid Game) at LeadDev Together in February 2022.

Jon Thornton

Good technical debt

Jon Thornton discusses how this framework was used to rapidly build and ship Squarespace’s Email Campaigns product in less than 15 months. Along the way, you’ll get several practical guidelines for how tech debt can supercharge your technical investments.

Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy

Having a defined tech strategy creates alignment and keeps everyone on the same page. So how can you ensure yours is most effective? Panelists Anna Shipman, Randy Shoup, Papanii Nene Okai, Nimisha Asthagiri and Anand Mariappan share their tips.

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That’s a wrap Berlin!

Catch-up on all the Lead Berlin 2024 talks with a digital pass.

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Top Technical Direction videos

  • Content sponsored by Harness

    How can AI actually help your teams?

    In this webinar, our panelists dig into the cultural and technical issues that arise around the topic of AI, and uncover its most useful applications across the SDLC.

  • Content sponsored by Harness

    How to identify and fix CI pipeline problems

    Our panel of engineering leaders will discuss how you can identify and remedy the most common CI pipeline difficulties, and how you can make sure they aren’t blocking your teams.

  • Content sponsored by Apollo

    How to implement platform engineering at scale

    In this webinar, we’ll hear from enterprise engineering leaders who’ve overcome cultural barriers and team silos, and successfully adopted platform engineering practices in their orgs.

  • Transforming legacy software: Riding the rollercoaster of emotion and innovation talk by Preetha Ramaswamy in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

    Transforming legacy software: Riding the rollercoaster of emotion and innovation

    Change is a challenge!!! Especially for a leader, driving an aspiring change, it can be extremely elusive if the target of the change is legacy software riddled with technical debt.  To spice it up further, throw in some emotional attachment to code, immunity to change and a…

  • Increasing code habitability by using AI coding assistants talk by Paul Sobocinski in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

    Increasing code habitability by using AI coding assistants

    Discover how AI coding assistants can enhance code habitability while avoiding pitfalls, with strategies to improve code quality in today’s complex development landscape.

  • Making better build vs buy decisions Talk by Chris Bell in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

    Making better build vs buy decisions

    Master a decision-making framework for build-vs-buy choices in engineering, with real-world examples, collaboration strategies, and tips for avoiding integration pitfalls.

  • Empowering developers to accelerate decentralized app development

    Learn to quickly launch Web3 apps with Near Protocol and React-on-Chain, enabling cross-chain asset management, DeFi, and Social while simplifying Web3 development.

  • Crossing the enterprise chasm Talk by Michael Grinich in LeadDev New York 2024 Conference

    Crossing the enterprise chasm

    Learn proven strategies to scale from PLG to enterprise, making your app “enterprise-ready” and driving upmarket growth. Ideal for product leaders and technical founders.