Latest videos
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Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback
Discover strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust and openness. Learn science-backed techniques to make feedback constructive, approachable, and growth-focused, helping teams unlock their full potential.
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What do you mean there’s no onboarding plan for engineering managers?
In this talk, Daniel will share his four-week onboarding process for engineering leads that emphasizes peopleware, tech leadership, and delivery management.
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Content sponsored by DXMeasuring 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.
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Influencing Through Getting Your Carrots In a Row
In this talk, I will go through some of the common incentives and motivators as well as real examples that I’ve encountered.
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Growing engineering managers: Breaking down the monolith
This talk will delve into the intricacies of being an effective engineering manager by dissecting the multifaceted role into distinct components. Chiranjiv will explore technical excellence, people management, and delivery, breaking down each aspect into manageable units that can be employed for evaluation and strategic planning.
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Engineering owns velocity
In this talk, I’ll explore what engineering leaders need to do to credibly own velocity and deeply align their work with the company strategy.
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Content sponsored by LinearBAchieving engineering velocity by optimising developer experience
Engineering teams face compounding pressures to meet business objectives while maintaining operational excellence. The last year, in particular, has forced engineering leaders to maximize productivity with limited resources, forcing them to search for solutions to improve engineering velocity.
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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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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Transitioning to a lead dev
The transition from a developer to a Lead Developer can be a rocky one. Yesterday, you were working as a developer and today, suddenly, you find yourself in the role of the Lead Developer.
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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?
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Do the Most Good
Mina shares reflections from the campaign trail and explores strategies to use your time and skills to affect social change.
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Eiffel’s tower
When Gustave Eiffel built his namesake tower, it was nearly twice as tall as the tallest structure on Earth.
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Storytelling patterns for engineering leaders
In most forms of entertainment, it all comes down to the story.
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Navigating engineering team friction
Friction is a common, and necessary, part of team growth—but when left unchecked, team friction is unhealthy for you, your coworkers, your company, and ultimately your end users.
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Is Kotlin right for you?
Kotlin sure has been receiving a lot of buzz lately, is there something to it?
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Crafting fun and productive Sprint retrospectives
What do Stairway to Heaven, air balloons, and the 3 Little Pigs have in common? They’re all fun formats for sprint retrospectives!
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Bootstrapping inclusion in engineering organisations
Diversity and Inclusion are hot topics right now. But, year after year, our industry fails to move the numbers significantly. It seems everyone is talking about it, but how do you actually bring about change?
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Creating code reviews that reflect your team’s culture
Our engineering workflow revolves around our code review process. Code reviews are more than just a way to make sure we don’t introduce new bugs into the codebase.
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Building and scaling distributed teams
Remote work is the number one desired workplace setup for developers. As a lead dev, you’re able to hire from a global talent pool, and your team’s productivity, engagement and retention can soar as everyone works in the way that’s best for them.
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A tour of Apache Pulsar
Apache Pulsar is a distributed pub/sub system develop at Yahoo! This talk covers Apache Pulsar’s underlying design and protocol level semantics.
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Creating learning workshops for developers
Interactive workshops are the best way to engage teams and individuals and help everyone remember lessons learned.
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Building a data infrastructure
Your team needs data so they can make the right decisions. Unless they have the right data in the right place, they’re left to act on intuition, opinions and hunches.
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Planning, executing, and landing refactoring
Slack is the leading global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
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Why GraphQL?
If you don’t know much about GraphQL, you probably just identify it as the hip, shiny new thing companies are adopting to replace their RESTful APIs.
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Everything You Need to Know About OpenAPI 3.0 in Ten Minutes or Less
The OpenAPI spec (formerly known as Swagger Spec) is now in version 3.0 … but what does that mean to you?
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How to Design Systems and Processes Teams Actually Follow
When we work alone, it’s easy to make sure things come out the way we think is best. But what happens when we need to get an entire team to agree on — and actually use — best practices? What if we have to convince an entire company?
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How to hold career path conversations with developers
Our industry is not the best at preparing developers to grow their careers when they reach the critical point when they have to decide between continuing to work as an individual contributor or moving into management.
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Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems
Have you ever worked on a computer system that was so fragile it was frightening to make changes to? Maybe it was challenging to deploy, difficult to delete code, or changing one piece would cause surprising cascading failures.
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Intersectional & Inclusive Standards for Developers
Give a developer readable code and they can code for a day, teach a developer best practices and coding standards and they can be a valuable addition to any engineering team.
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Increasing code testability
We all, for the most part, invest time in learning new front-end technologies but how much time if any do we put into client-side testing?
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Creating Architecture and Teams at Less-than-Google Scale
Facebook, Google, Uber, LinkedIn, and friends are the rarefied heights of software engineering.