Latest videos
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Exploring the (testing) pyramid – An expedition towards more accessibility
Explore how applying the testing pyramid to accessibility can streamline development. Learn methods to lower costs, speed feedback, and enhance both product quality and inclusivity.
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How to balance technical direction and leadership work
But as is often the case in business, priorities constantly shift and where you focus your efforts will too. So how do you strike the right balance between working on the technical direction of the business and those tasks that require you to put your leadership hat on?
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How to master the four Staff archetypes and elevate your impact
While the specifics of the job can vary widely, Will Larson has famously categorized the Staff+ experience into four archetypes: Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, and the Right Hand.
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Mastering Visual Communication for Software Development
In this session, learn from a hands-on solution architect – and thought leader in communication design and documentation – how to tailor your visuals to your audience, choose the most appropriate standards (or not) and level of detail, and apply patterns to improve accessibility for all audiences.
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Scaling leadership: Insights from the first Staff Technical Program Manager in the room
This talk offers the perspective of a Staff Technical Program manager as the first one hired in a company, deconstructing the evolutionary journey that paved the way for hiring more of them.
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Tips on scaling your leadership outside of your comfort zone
In this talk Michael will talk through lessons and tips he’s learnt when working on a project that pushed him outside of his comfort zone, and how you can effectively utilise the skills and knowledge of those around you to build alignment when leading across a broad set of teams who are often using very different technologies.
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Debug Like a Scientist
This talk will enhance your programming toolbox for the hardest bugs. Not only this – but you’ll see how to scale effective debugging to the entire team. Last but not least – you’ll leave with a set of habits to share with your fellow engineers to help them step up their debugging game.
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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Universal Apps: Architecture for the Modern Web
“In today’s web environment, performance and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are important to successful apps. Universal architecture provides a hybrid approach to building web apps that combines server-side rendered applications and Single-Page Applications (SPA). This architectural approach improves the user experience and makes it easier for your site to serve content to search and social bots.
This talk will explain the methodology and benefits of the universal approach. It will explore some of the tradeoffs and challenges that come with universal architecture. Finally, we will cover the various implementation options available today. At the end of this talk, you’ll be able to evaluate if universal architecture is a good choice for your projects.”
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Traps on the Path to Microservices
After Netflix helped popularize microservices, you probably heard the architectural pattern labelled a boon. However, if your team is tasked with implementing the pattern it is too easy to find yourself in a place where you’ve significantly increased your architectural complexity without deriving any of the benefits that microservices purport to bring, especially if implemented without proper organizational maturity or careful foresight and follow-through.
ThoughtWorks has led many teams and organizations along the path from monoliths to microservices and this presentation covers three of the major traps that we’ve experienced (as well as how to avoid them). The traps covered are, underestimating the cost of a microservice, overcentralization, and neglecting the monolith
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Traps on the Path to Microservices
After Netflix helped popularize microservices, you probably heard the architectural pattern labelled a boon. However, if your team is tasked with implementing the pattern it is too easy to find yourself in a place where you’ve significantly increased your architectural complexity without deriving any of the benefits that microservices purport to bring, especially if implemented without proper organizational maturity or careful foresight and follow-through.
ThoughtWorks has led many teams and organizations along the path from monoliths to microservices and this presentation covers three of the major traps that we’ve experienced (as well as how to avoid them). The traps covered are, underestimating the cost of a microservice, overcentralization, and neglecting the monolith
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Designing effective criteria for assessing engineering candidates equitably
Unlock engineering talent through equitable hiring
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Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader
Openly acknowledging and accepting our faults
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Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams
Energizing and uplifting your direct reports
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Building and conveying vision
Until a certain point in your career you’re likely to be told the strategy for your company. If you need guidance, you’re able to look up to the people above you.
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Taking risks in production
Being an engineer, we all have at least one common thread: We like to build things. That is why writing code and architecting platforms that scale for millions of customers is appealing.
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Avoiding “shiny object” syndrome when building software
Technology is fast moving, and devops tools pop up like wildfire. Teams are desperate to solve their problems & often make implementation decisions based on word of mouth, “kick the tires” syndrome or superficial evaluations.
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Designing effective OKRs
When they work well, OKRs have the potential to be a powerful tool that can clarify vision at all levels of the business, all while providing autonomy for smaller functions to set their own goals and objectives.
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Finding potential in your interview processes
Hiring engineers is hard. And with over half of C-suite executives saying that the future of their company relies on being able to source engineering talent, making the correct decisions about who to hire has the potential to transform the fortune of your company.
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Tradeoffs on the road to observability
SRE and infrastructure engineering are about allocating adequate time to do project work that improves the long-term sustainability of our services. But what do we reward SREs for doing? Does your company have a culture of “not invented here” or the converse of “ask the consultants to design it for us”?
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Avoiding the pitfalls of rebuilding software
If you think back to the work you were doing last year, it probably feels miles away – and that’s great! As engineers, we’re continually building and creating great new stuff – it’s what we do.
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Investing in your accessibility workflow
There’s no arguing that building accessible websites is a force for good. Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, ought to have the right to participate on the web.
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Powerful questions and active listening
As leaders in technology, we’re problem-solvers. We’re practiced in having good answers, and we are often promoted based on our ability to provide the “right answers” – solutions to business problems. But what about asking the “right questions”?
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I’m newly remote under coronavirus, AMA
In this session, we’ve assembled a group of engineering leaders who have had their working life affected by coronavirus. Attendees will have the opportunity to pre-submit questions to the panel to understand how this has changed the way they’re working, how they recommend making the switch, and how to mitigate the tensions that will initially occur.
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Strategies for Rapidly Pivoting to Remote Work
Over 74% of engineering teams now have team members who work remotely. And while remote work has the potential to bring many benefits, it also has unique points of tension that, if handled incorrectly, can damage the health of your team.
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Leading Engineering Teams Through Times of Uncertainty
At the core of an engineering managers’ role is the responsibility to ensure the happiness of your teams. As a leader, you’re expected to shield your teams from outside noise and create a stable environment for work – but what happens when there are situations too big for you to resolve?
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Engineering leadership in the time of coronavirus
As unprecedented situations occur, as a company it is your duty to ensure the safety of your employees. As such, you’ve made the decision to work remotely; you’ve made sure everyone’s safe and that they can connect to your systems. Their Instant Bloomberg (IB) dots are green.
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On Postponing Lead Dev New York and London
In January, news reports began to emerge of Coronavirus. The news was shocking, upsetting, and evidently very serious. But while we watched the news anxiously, we were still weeks away from understanding just how frightening the chain of events would be, and how they would impact our working lives.
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Minimum Viable Business Continuity Management
The COVID-19 pandemic has probably made many of us view our Business Continuity Management approach quite differently to how we might have 6 months ago.
