Latest videos
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In partnership with SwimmA roadmap to working with your legacy codebases
Gain expert insights on modernizing legacy systems, improving developer satisfaction, streamlining discovery, and effectively documenting complex, large-scale codebases for better productivity and collaboration.
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In partnership with incident.ioManaging authentically across levels
Learn how to manage engineers at all levels with practical tips for adapting your style to support growth and foster a thriving, high-performing engineering team.
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Technical diplomacy
Explore “Technical Diplomacy” to lead without authority. Learn strategies to build trust, break through resistance, and unite diverse teams in achieving shared goals with empathy and collaboration.
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Finding balance: How to build processes that help not hurt your engineering team
Learn how to implement effective processes that empower engineering teams, balancing flexibility and adaptability to foster ownership, accountability, and a positive team culture.
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Transforming legacy software: Riding the rollercoaster of emotion and innovation
This talk delves into overcoming emotional resistance and technical debt in digital transformation, highlighting strategies, tools, and insights that helped drive innovation and effective change.
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Increasing code habitability by using AI coding assistants
Discover how AI coding assistants can enhance code habitability while avoiding pitfalls, with strategies to improve code quality in today’s complex development landscape.
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Several components are rendering: Client performance at Slack-scale
Explore Slack’s frontend performance challenges with Jenna, uncovering architectural decisions and strategies to optimize efficiency while maintaining an effortless user experience.
Highlights from our conferences
Measure for Change
Picking metrics is one thing. But the harder decisions lie in what to do with them afterward.
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Drive product gaps as an engineering leader
Discover practical strategies for engineering leaders to influence product development effectively, even in the absence of strong product management and a clear company vision.
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Growth in a downturn
In this talk, Smruti Patel asks, if hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like?
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Slack enterprise key management: Senior to staff lessons
Explore the key lessons and skills Audrei gained during their first Staff+ project, Slack Enterprise Key Management. This talk offers insights for anyone growing in their Staff+ career.
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A Commune in the Ivory Tower? – A new approach to architecture decisions
Andrew Harmel-Law introduces a mindset and an associated set of practices which do away with the traditional idea of “Architects” while bringing the practice of “Architecture” to the fore.
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People building: Career planning for your direct reports
Daniel Burke shares his playbook on career planning for your direct reports.
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Navigating engineering leadership through the pandemic and beyond
Engineering leaders for LeadDev New York 2022 discuss the current changing landscape.
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Creating a user-focused engineering team
Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.
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Building a better bridge
Bryan Liles shares how he came to find out that he was a bridge builder and how that carried through his journey as a senior engineer to where he is today as a VP-level engineer in a public company.
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The tools of culture change
In this talk Jason will cover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to culture change, and give you the tools you need to get the best out of your team.
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Helping juniors to get started in tech: Amarachi Amaechi in conversation
What should senior engineers keep in mind when mentoring juniors?
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Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
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Moon to Mars: Planning and executing for the long term
Katie Sylor-Miller looks at how to ensure success when the end goal feels like it’s millions of miles away.
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Harmonizing across cross-functional teams
Rukmini Reddy, VP of Platform Engineering at Slack talks about harmonizing across cross-functional teams at LeadDev Together in March 2022.
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Understanding the role of a Distinguished engineer
Breaking down the responsibilities and overlap involved in the most senior individual contributor roles.
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Elastic Leadership: Roy Osherove in conversation
Values and techniques to consider in leadership roles.
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Accessibility and why everything old is new again
Alice Li climbs into her Wayback Machine and delves into some foundational approaches and processes to facilitate and test for Accessibility compliance on the web.
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In partnership with CoderPadWriting your technical strategy
Bruce Wang talks about Writing your technical strategy (psst, it doesn’t have to feel like a Squid Game) at LeadDev Together in February 2022.
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Standing out as a remote candidate
Learn what companies are looking for when hiring remote candidates.
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The practice of managing managers
Learn how to coach your managers to execute the company’s shared vision, as your responsibilities – and distractions – continue to multiply.
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Setting the right strategic goals for your engineering org
Learn how to communicate key objectives both up and down.
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DevOps for Dummies: Emily Freeman in conversation
Understand the competitive advantages of DevOps and why it is important.
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Rubrics cubed: Attempting to quantify the qualitative in the interview process
Shawna Martell and Dan Fike discussed how they created their rubrics and introduced them to their organization, and what they discovered about how the process has affected their hiring outcomes.
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Harassers are nice to me
Sarah Milstein looks at techniques for surfacing and addressing bad behaviour in the workplace.
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Level up your code reviews
Denise Yu gets us thinking about code reviews in terms of different lenses to help engineers of all experience levels build a vocabulary for seeking and providing feedback in a healthy, thoughtful, and collaborative way.
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Understanding the role of a Principal engineer
Learn what the technical and strategic conversations look like at a Principal engineer level.
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Starting a new job as a Staff+
Amy Unger looks at how you can effectively start off a new job at Staff-level.
