Latest videos
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Are we doing this right? Findings from the state of feature management and experimentation report 2024
Explore key findings from the 2024 State of Feature Management and Experimentation report, including trends, the engineering-product gap, and balancing optimization with safety.
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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.
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Tactical tech: Short-term solutions for long-term strategy
Waterloo International station was opened in 1994 serving Eurostar trains through the channel tunnel to France. The station cost £130 million to build and won the EU prize for contemporary architecture but closed just 13 years later in 2007.
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The joy of being staff+
In this session, Leslie Chapman will celebrate what it means to be a senior individual contributor. What better way to close out the conference than with a love letter to what brings us together?
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The path from Director to CTO: How to follow it, or how to mentor it
This talk is aimed at both aspiring Chief Technology Officers and those who are in a position to mentor future CTOs. Explore the journey from a Director of Engineering role to a CTO, focusing on the skills and experiences needed for this transition and how experienced leaders can guide others on this path.
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Budgeting: Your (unexpected) opportunity to be a hero
As you advance your career as an engineering leader, managing a budget becomes a highly critical part of your job.
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Building products is a team sport: Cultivating effective engineering-product partnerships
With new AI developments happening almost every day, team roadmaps evolve fast to adapt to the product and business needs; this requires a close partnership between engineering and product leaders.
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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Navigating organizational changes as an Individual Contributor: a matter of perspective
In this session, two speakers will give their perspectives on a situation involving a difficult conversation. One perspective will be from the manager, and the other from the person being managed.
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Imperfect Processes: Navigating the fuzzier parts
It may sound clear cut, but we know that no process is 100% foolproof and it’s much messier in the real world.
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A process is never done
In the final talk of this session, we’ll be exploring what happens when a process is no longer fit for purpose, how this can affect people’s jobs and their identities within an organisation, and how you can ensure the next process will be an improvement from the last.
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Scaling up sustainably through better processes
In this talk we’ll take a look at processes and scaling up, thinking about the types of processes that help to establish growth, when it’s too early or late to introduce a process, and the times you’d choose to not apply a process.
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What makes a good process?
In this talk, we’ll explain the how, what, and why of a good process and offer ways of thinking about defining and building processes. We’ll also discuss how to build in inclusion from the start.
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Developing teams at different levels
Engineering leaders at different levels of seniority reflect on what they’ve learned.
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Growing teams and culture with actionable feedback
We’ll consider why developing a strategy around delivering feedback is important, how feedback can be optimized for reception and action, and why the consistent delivery of positive, reinforcing feedback makes feedback of all types more impactful.
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On engineering impact
Tough technical problems are exciting to tackle and often engineers can think this is where they’re driving the most value.
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Harnessing the power of storytelling to become a better leader
When we’re talking to engineers about change, we often just talk about what the change will be and not the context, why it’s necessary, and why we think it will be successful.
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Crafting a mission and vision for your team
As you progress in seniority as a leader, the time horizon of your work progressively gets longer.
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Sponsored by: you
We’ll also explore how to sponsor individuals by raising their visibility in an organisation and providing them with opportunities.
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Other people’s problems: a primer on coaching
The world’s best leaders seem to have one thing in common, and it has nothing to do with their intellect or their broad experience.
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Why we must strive for belonging in our engineering orgs
Spotify’s focus on diversity has been the foundation of an enriched environment of culture, ideas, and innovative business solutions. However, diversity alone does not ensure open communication or retention in the workplace.
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Preparing your software engineering teams for times of financial uncertainty
Financial crashes are cyclical in nature and although we can’t predict the timing of the next crash, we know that they are an inevitability.
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Supporting employees through redundancies and business closures
Reality sometimes makes decisions for us. Teams and businesses come to an end or need to focus elsewhere. But lives go on…
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Living without pre-production environments
Historically when we developed large monolithic applications we had several ‘lower’ environments such as dev, test, staging, pre-prod for verifying different stages of our development life cycle. These were particularly used for manual testing – integration testing, gatekeeping, acceptance testing.
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Remote Inclusion in Distributed Engineering Teams
Increasingly, companies in business centres like London are combining offshore with local developers. Maximising the effectiveness in a mixed team environment is therefore critical to business success.
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Cracking the cadence of your software engineering 1:1s
One-to-ones provide perhaps your greatest opportunity to survey how well things are going with your team.
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Eliminating hero culture in software engineering teams
As a woman with a few years of experience in engineering I have often noticed that every team has a “Hero”, as I have been one myself. The hero is usually identified as the hardworking, highly talented and knowledgeable team member.
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Changing attitudes toward legacy code
Legacy is an inevitability in any business – systems that were once cutting edge naturally age, but still require careful maintenance. And although it’s important work, it can feel less rewarding than working on shiny new features.
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How simplifying software can save your engineering teams’ time
We’re conditioned to think from an early age that exciting things are the best. That attitude can extend to engineering, too.
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Creating efficient, accurate, software estimations
Estimating projects is hard. Whether it’s negotiating technical debt, understanding new requirements, or grappling with a lack of useful documents; the number of moving variables make it difficult to judge just how long a project will really take.
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Increasing your influence through building a professional network
Have you ever wondered why you aren’t having a bigger impact at work? Why your colleagues aren’t listening to your advice or why those next career opportunities aren’t coming your way? Stop wondering and start influencing.
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Skills for first-time Lead Developers
The transition from a developer to a Lead Developer can be a rocky one.