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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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Pandemic and purpose-built remote work are not the same thing
What we can learn from purpose-built remote companies
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Seven ways to help your team connect when you’re apart
Building a sense of community in remote teams
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Content sponsored by Honeycomb
Why people are at the center of systems
Framing systems as both social and technical
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The Beast Mode: How to supercharge your team to achieve an ambitious goal
Splitting teams into squads to boost productivity
Top Velocity videos
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Adapting testing for engineers
Keeping up with a team of developers who release every day is a tough job, but someone’s got to do it! Gone are the long, relaxing days of manual testing for weeks on end. Here is how we are keeping the acceptance testing process at JUST EAT as lean as possible.
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Dealing with culture divides on distributed teams
Having timezone issues, international flights, planning logistics, communication and dealing with different cultural norms, working with teams distributed across the world provides challenges to overcome and a great way to learn how to work in a different manner at times.
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Working backwards from the customer
Amazon is built on top of fine grained services that have a strong ownership model – you build it, you run it. These services are created by small teams to make it very easy to innovate.
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Creating processes that don’t impede autonomy
Many factors contribute to developer happiness. However, as engineers, we’re often singularly obsessed with the idea that our job satisfaction comes solely from solving only the most interesting technical challenges.
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Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto
Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably weren’t handed a leadership instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead.
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Running An Effective Mobile Engineering Team
Organisations often worry about their mobile teams. Sometimes they are a bit separate. There’s often this inexplicable hostility to mentions of “React Native”.
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The Original Skunk Works
Long before Agile and Lean became buzzwords, a scrappy group of aerospace engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works were using similar practices to produce some of the most amazing aircraft ever built.
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Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering
Software development has been evolving. When I started in the industry, working at companies like Microsoft, we would bet many person-years of development and many millions of dollars into the development of products that would sometimes be hits and sometimes be total duds