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Why you shouldn’t move fast and break things
It’s an oft-repeated motto within the industry – but a severely limited way to build good software.
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Maintain team performance during unexpected change
You’ll have to experience change management at least once in your career. Make sure your teams can maintain performance through it all.
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The key to quickly unblocking decision-making
Unlock quick decision-making by evaluating what you know, what you don’t know, and, based on those things, hypotheses you can make.
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Content sponsored by DXMeasuring developer productivity with DORA, SPACE, or DevEx
Join us for this webinar, where we’ll discuss how engineering leaders can measure and boost team performance using three well-known engineering productivity frameworks.
Editor’s picks
Unleash impact using outcome-driven delivery
Delivering impact in today’s landscape is a loaded task.
Increase speed and reduce risk with these engineering strategies
Once upon a time…your product was small. And fast. How do you keep that feeling going?
How to speed up code reviews
Code reviews don’t have to be painful. Here’s how to embrace tools and more collaborative processes to raise the bar on your review cycle.
Managing the chaos of context switching
It’s time to examine the good, the bad, and the very ugly elements of context switching. Even better, we’ll take a look at some strategies for managing it.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
Essential reading
Focus on outcomes over outputs
Software engineering teams should focus on outcomes over outputs to deliver the best user and business value.
On our Velocity playlist
Goldilocks doesn’t need your story points or your t-shirts
Ben Murray believes there is only really one question you need to ask: is this task small enough?
Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity
How can you get your engineering teams to stop bypassing security requirements?
Keeping up momentum in remote teams
How can you increase your speed of delivery when managing remote engineering teams?
Moving quickly inside a large organization
Pablo Jablonski shares key learnings from building and shipping Spaces within Twitter, and how those learnings can be applied to any new team looking to move quickly within a larger organization.
Planning for success when scaling rapidly
Create goals, prioritize effectively, set expectations, and drive alignment.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Velocity
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Using AI to make a “sci-fi” developer experience
The future of AI-assisted development is so greenfield it’s neon-green, says Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify.
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Content sponsored by Split
Increase speed and reduce risk with these engineering strategies
Once upon a time…your product was small. And fast. How do you keep that feeling going?
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5 ways to immediately optimize team performance
Need some more ideas on how to improve your team’s performance? Look no further. Here are 5 ways to instantly give them a boost.
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Unleash impact using outcome-driven delivery
Delivering impact in today’s landscape is a loaded task.
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A buyer’s checklist for AI coding assistants
Have you been thinking about trying an AI coding assistant?
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Content sponsored by Codacy
Increase developer velocity without compromising on security
Reacting to security incidents is slowing you down.
Top Velocity videos
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Influencing your company’s culture from the driver’s seat
Sarah Abrantes talks about how to uncover the real culture at your company and how you can make a genuine lasting impact on it.
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Upskilling leadership teams
Vitor Reis dives into strategies on how to grow the next generation of leaders in your organization so you can build a stronger foundation for driving the long-term success of your business.
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50 shades of PR dark matter
In this short and fun talk (yes it’ll be fun!) – Avishag Sahar laments about the top blockers of PRs, but cheer up – because I’ll also provide insights into how to unblock them.
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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.
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Skills that empower engineers to drive business impact
Lydia Seidlitz focuses on skills for engineers to master in order to foster a business and product mind set.
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Practical tech-debt prioritization
Sahana Carlsen explores practical steps to influence stakeholders, be realistic about resourcing, and involve the entire team in making critical decisions on quality projects and technical debt.
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Goldilocks doesn’t need your story points or your t-shirts
Ben Murray believes there is only really one question you need to ask: is this task small enough?
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Supporting Major Launches as a Staff+ IC
Erin Sardo covers what makes a good Release Captain including topics like how to think about rollout stages, rollback strategy planning, environment planning for sustained QA, cross-functional dependencies like help content and customer service traffic, delegation and aggregation.