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Productivity isn’t always fast
It can often feel like we aren’t being productive unless we’re working at max speed. But slow productivity is here to subvert that idea.
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Content sponsored by Statsig
Unlock your engineering velocity with data
Breaking down the three phases of data maturity and how they help move your product forward.
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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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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.
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.
That’s a wrap for LeadDev Berlin 2024!
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Essential reading
Should the daily stand-up die?
Will the real agile developers please stand up? Please stand up. Please, stand up.
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.
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More about Velocity
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Three ways to optimize team focus
Scheduling, prioritizing, and context-switching issues may be getting in the way of your team’s productivity. Here are three approaches to overcome these hurdles.
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The art of getting the best out of your team
By modeling the behavior of your engineers, managers can boost execution and raise the bar of their whole team.
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Platform engineering for engineering managers
Making it easier for software developers to do the right thing more easily should be a major priority for engineering leaders. The emerging practice of platform engineering could just be the answer.
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How to plan your next product feature using a six-week cycle
Abiding by this six-week cycle may improve your production processes and help to streamline your vision.
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How to protect your calendar against unnecessary meetings
Becoming a manager can easily lead to meeting after meeting, here are some ways to protect your diary against meeting fatigue.
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Managing a return to (hybrid) work
Being asked to get your team back into the office can put managers in a tricky position. Here are three ways to help you navigate the return to (hybrid) work.
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Seven ways to build effective platform teams
Platform teams are important for establishing the foundational layers of a company’s product. How can yours be more effective?
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How engineering leaders can promote urgency in teams
Urgency is often a skill that people really value. But what does it actually mean in practice?
Top Velocity videos
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Are we building engineering platforms using the right metrics?
Simone Casciaroli shares the HEAT metrics created while working at Babylon, how they helped create a successful Platform Product, what essential product decisions you need to make to help other teams strive and how they fit with other engineering metrics like DORA.
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Using a learning-themed retrospective to strengthen your team’s learning culture and reduce learning debt
Kristen Foster-Marks shares her experience of leading a learning-themed retrospective, which encouraged her team to reflect on their personal beliefs about learning and up-skilling, their team’s learning culture, and the ways in which these beliefs and culture can both encourage and discourage engagement in on-the-job learning and up-skilling activities.
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Why operations matter
In this talk, James will discuss why operations and operations engineering are the secret to true, sustained scale, and how Cash App came to be more honest about the road ahead.
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Scale up: How to grow your team without growing headcount
In this talk, CJ Cenizal uses colorful AI-generated images to illustrate three stories about how he approaches this challenge.
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Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
This talk will give you a playbook to analyze and work on your team’s engineering velocity— and ultimately, to create an environment where people work together at their highest potential.
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Optimizing the time you and your team spend on hiring
Hiring engineers is intensive, so how can you streamline the hiring process and tap into top talent?
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Preparing your engineering team for organizational growth
Company growth opens up new opportunities but also brings structural and technical changes
