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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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How to achieve better team performance through data-driven standups
Shifting the conversation to action
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How to break out of the thread of doom
Have you ever been stuck in an online conversation that’s going nowhere? Here are three techniques to break out of the ‘thread of doom’: the rollup summary, asking obvious questions and increasing the bandwidth of the conversation.
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Why the first two weeks are essential when building great software products
‘Your success hinges on the early beginnings.’
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Successfully integrating remote engineers
Combat the disadvantages in meetings for your distributed employees
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Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production
Leveraging tools, teams, and test-driven development for reliable releases.
Top Velocity videos
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Documentation in Agile
We value “working software over comprehensive documentation”. That is, while there is value in documentation, we value working software more.
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Engineering retrospectives – Look back, move forward
Retrospectives are one of the most powerful tools in a team lead’s toolkit.
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The challenges and rewards of distributed teams
Distributed teams offer many benefits for employers and employees alike. Having a distributed team can make recruiting and retention easier, and it can help you build a diverse team.
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Growing an engineering organization with effective DevOps
Most of us hope that our engineering organizations will grow and scale with the success of our businesses, but that growth is often easier said than done.
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Intro to test-driven development
Does your team deal with bugs that could have been caught earlier in the development cycle?
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Tackling Big, Impossible Projects
Big, Impossible projects are exciting, transformative, and begin with an overwhelming number of unanswered questions.
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Reclaiming the Spirit of Agile
Do you follow Agile processes like Scrum, Kanban or XP… and yet struggling to deliver on time, under budget and without last-minute heroics? Why aren’t these supposedly best practices working for you?
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Building Engineering Teams Under Pressure
Why do some teams ship features rapidly, support each other, and effectively communicate while others struggle?