Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Velocity

Velocity

Supercharging your processes for faster software delivery

  • Estimates as probabilities

    This talk introduces a probability approach to estimations, aiming to transform delivery discussions into stress-free, trust-based conversations between tech teams and stakeholders.

Unleash impact using outcome-driven delivery

Delivering impact in today’s landscape is a loaded task.

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?

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.

Should the daily stand-up die?

Will the real agile developers please stand up? Please stand up. Please, stand up.

On our Velocity playlist

Ben Murray

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?

Pablo Jablonski

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.

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Top Velocity videos

  • Sarah Abrantes

    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.

  • Vitor

    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.

  • Avishag Sahar

    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.

  • Joel Chippindale

    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.

  • Lydia Seidlitz

    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.

  • Sahana Carlsen

    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.

  • Ben Murray

    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?

  • Erin Sardo

    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.