
Latest videos
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In partnership with O’ReillyMeasuring team performance isn’t getting any easier
Working smarter, not harder, to achieve high velocity.
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Using postmortems to break out of infinite loops
Our experience is our best resource when it comes to incident prevention, so why are we so resistant to learning from our past mistakes?
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Growing pains: Scaling and re-architecting systems under fire
Explore how stakeholder buy-in can make or break your system re-architecture during high-pressure scaling challenges.
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Levelling up: Transitioning successfully into a manager of managers role
The talk I wish I’d found when I became a manager of managers. Tips and insights to prepare you for the road ahead.
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Rebuilding at scale: A CTO’s Journey in a high-growth fintech
How a high-growth fintech dealt with a major platform rewrite with 10 years of technical and commercial debt. And, more importantly, my own personal growth journey from tech leader to exec-level CTO.
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Don’t drop the baton, or how a team that communicates well collaborates well
Effective team communication shapes company culture at all levels. In this talk, we’ll explore habits, principles, and frameworks to foster healthy communication patterns.
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Creating the next generation of Senior Engineers
An introduction to the science of teaching – pedagogy – how it applies to leadership and techniques to grow our teams in the era of doing more with less.
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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Progression, salary and promotions in your organization
Panelists get together at LeadDev Together to discuss Progression, salary and promotions in your organization.
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Onboarding and retention in your organization
Onboarding and retention in your organization. A panel discussion featuring leaders from GitHub and Doctolib at LeadDev Together.
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Successful onboarding and retention is a team effort
A conversation with Abel Martin on ways to scale successful onboarding & retention actions based on his current adventures at Rhino and his 16 years of experience in the field at LeadDev Together.
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Metrics to measure developer experience
Tim will be exploring micro-feedback loops, taking a look at low level friction, how it can quickly compound to affect motivation and productivity.
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Empower your teams to do their best work
As a senior leader, this talk builds upon the fundamental concepts with a focus on leveraging your team’s work for impact.
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Metrics – a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact
As managers or senior leaders, this talk will give you a primer for leveraging metrics for the objectives you seek, outcomes you desire, and the behaviors you want to incentivize or disincentivize within your engineering organization.
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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.
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Supporting your team (and yourself!) in times of change
Aisha will share tips for how to clearly communicate strategy, build agility, identify the unique needs of your team members, and keep a pulse on your own needs during the process at LeadDev Together.
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Balancing user needs, platform health, and engineer growth
In this talk, Kasa will walk through tactics for addressing each challenge; things that work, things that don’t work, things that appear to work until they don’t at LeadDev Together.
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Raising the subject of raises
This talk gives some practical advice and things to keep in mind when you are considering what type of pay raise to make. I’ll also provide some points to make the salary discussions in your performance reviews easier.
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Feedback: Vital for growth, tough to crack
Hena shares how Feedback combined with coaching can be a very powerful leadership technique that helps your teammates elevate to their next level at LeadDev Together.
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Designing an engineering career framework
Anirudh Todi introduces the approach taken when designing and iterating on our engineering career framework at Dropbox.
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Culture change in a hostile environment
Jason Wong discusses strategies and tactics for seeding cultural change, creating environments for that change to grow, and what are the limits to those changes at LeadDev Together.
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Hiring for culture add, not culture fit
Emily will share lessons learned from four years of evolving hiring practices at Honeycomb at LeadDev Together.
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Creating a culture of trust
Dana Lawson explores how to quickly build cultures of trust on engineering teams, outlining the benefits and giving practical advice at LeadDev Together.
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Utilizing the tools in your toolbox for onboarding and retention
Onboarding and retention are critical and yet many of us either aren’t spending enough time or the right kind of time to onboard and retain effectively.
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Onboarding: setting the foundation for growth
Cate Huston talks about onboarding for retention through the dual lenses of belonging and accomplishment at LeadDev Together.
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Breaking down knowledge silos between engineering teams
How can we restructure the silos that are slowing us down?
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Collaborative debugging on engineering teams
Teams that write code together should be able to debug issues together. But while we think a lot about engineering collaboratively, we rarely develop processes for debugging collaboratively.
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In partnership with Honeycomb
Observability with actionable insights
You may have heard the hype; now see it in action. With Honeycomb, modern dev teams build and operate resilient, reliable systems because they can clearly understand them.
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In partnership with Moogsoft
Turning observability data into action
Reduce noise, conquer alert fatigue, and deliver a seamless customer experience with Moogsoft.


