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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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Feature management: a low-risk way to deliver software faster
The power of feature management in modern development
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How to measure and improve success in your engineering team
A deep dive to help you and your team achieve what really matters.
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Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
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Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation
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Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products
The power of trusting your engineers and their expertise
Top Velocity videos
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Landing projects successfully
Getting projects across the finish line is a challenge, particularly for projects where you need other teams to do something – for example, to migrate to a new tool or a new version of an API. This talk will cover how to increase the likelihood that those teams will do what you need them to do, through a focus on clarity, communication, and empathy. It will cover some ideas for nudging behaviour too.
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Sustaining and growing motivation across projects
In this panel, we’ll explore how to sustain motivation across long projects, including how to celebrate victories but also how to quickly bounce-back from any obstacles that occur.
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Avoid the Lake!
Large programs are as much about bringing people, teams, and organizations together as much as it is about building and delivering technology. This talk is a brief overview of frequently overlooked steps in execution and proposes small changes to consider to significantly reduce friction during execution.
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Iterating with a purpose
In talk, we’ll be exploring what you need to think about when you start a new project. How do you decide and agree what your goals are and understand how you’ll measure their successes and failures.
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Remote Inclusion in Distributed Engineering Teams
Increasingly, companies in business centres like London are combining offshore with local developers. Maximising the effectiveness in a mixed team environment is therefore critical to business success.
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Applying software engineering practices to improve people management
As a new manager, your changed responsibility is not to build features, but to build systems to support the people building the features. It can be a challenge to figure out how to prioritise problems alongside the day to day pastoral care of your team.
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Learning from incidents: from ‘what went wrong?’ to ‘what went right?’
When things go wrong, we tend to focus on mistakes, miscalculations, and deficiencies in design. By limiting our investigations to the details of what went wrong, we ignore a far richer and more interesting source of learning: how things went right.
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Distributed teams: how to hone connection, communication, and collaboration
Psychological safety is one of the leading indicators of a high performing team. Yet, forging deep human relationships and building trust can be difficult when your team is distributed or largely interacts on screens.