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The real reason your team’s velocity isn’t improving
What are the three big traps to avoid when it comes to velocity?
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The real reason your team’s velocity isn’t improving
What are the three big traps to avoid when it comes to velocity?
Conference talks

Software engineering with GenAI
A look at how AI coding tools are reshaping software engineering, how teams are adapting, and what remains unchanged in the development process.

Theory to action: Architecting and implementing your team operating system
Learn the theory behind the operating systems of high-performing engineering teams. Leave with a practical idea of how to design a flexible team operating system with rhythms, tools, and feedback loops for your team.

From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.

Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI
Explore how to grow future senior engineers in an AI-driven world that sidelines traditional junior roles.

How Monzo tolerates full cloud outages
Learn how Monzo built a fully independent backup bank to ensure 24/7 reliability—even during full cloud outages

How to delete everything: The clean-slate approach to technical strategy
Learn how clean-slate thinking can break technical deadlocks, improve system resilience, and inspire actionable strategies for complex engineering challenges.

FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history
Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale
Reports

The Engineering Leadership Report 2025
We asked 600+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.

Remote Engineer Salary Insights Report
New and emerging tech hubs. Talent availability. Cutting-edge technologies. These are just a handful of factors impacting remote engineering roles in 2025.

The State of Feature Management and Experimentation
How are engineering teams releasing new features safely and successfully?

The Engineering Team Performance Report 2024
How do organizations measure their engineering team performance?
Upcoming webinars
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In partnership with Octopus Deploy
Measuring productivity without freaking people out
How to keep a healthy culture when you put developers under the microscope
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In partnership with Stytch
Are you ready for AI agents?
AI is changing how apps get accessed – are your systems built to keep up?
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In partnership with Coder
How to refactor without killing morale
Refactoring isn’t the problem; it’s how we manage it.
Must read

AI doesn’t make devs as productive as they think, study finds
A new study raises serious questions about how perceptions of productivity translate into results.
How to communicate mandates (even if you disagree with them)
You may not agree with a mandate, but that shouldn’t affect the way you communicate it to your team.
AI productivity gains are being offset by organizational bottlenecks
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
The real reason your team’s velocity isn’t improving
What are the three big traps to avoid when it comes to velocity?

How to hire force multipliers (not 10x engineers)
Long heralded as the “brilliant jerks” of tech, their damage can run deep when it comes to team culture. Hire a force multiplier instead.
On our LeadDev playlist

Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.

Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT
Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.

Shopify’s remote working toolbox
This talk presents Shopify’s remote working toolbox, which is a collection of learnings, best practices and ideas for other leaders that are wishing to work and attract talent globally, but must fundamentally shift their culture to do so.

Career vectors for technical leaders
Mix and match skills to become the best technical leader that you can be.

The metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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