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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 DX
Measuring 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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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?
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How engineering leaders can better organize their day
How can engineering leaders hack their productivity? Here’s six ways to better organize your working day to avoid distractions and make more impact.
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How to create more collisions in remote working environments
Being intentional about ad hoc conversations in a remote working environment can lead to more creativity and productivity.
Top Velocity videos
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Effective Remote Work: James Stanier in conversation
How to be just as impactful in a distributed workforce
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Scaling your mobile app release process
Neil Kimmett discusses strategies to iterate on your app release process, software tools that can help you, and how to reorient your organization for a mobile-first world.
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Solving inefficiency challenges at Datacenter scale
Bobby talks about how a technical solution increased the existing clusters capacity by 9% — resulting in a multi-year saving of 9-figures in CAPEX, by solving inefficiency challenges at datacenter scale.
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Software estimation – embracing nuance and controlled chaos
Karl Sanford explains how to embrace nuance, control chaos, and begin to confidently deliver on your commitments.
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Keeping up momentum in remote teams
How can you increase your speed of delivery when managing remote engineering teams?
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Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity
How can you get your engineering teams to stop bypassing security requirements?
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Making a bigger impact through collaboration as a senior individual contributor
How can working with peers lead to individual career progression?
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Systems of efficient stability
Holly will talk through Slack’s system for managing ambient disruptions, detailing Slack’s process and the benefits it has brought at LeadDev Together.