Latest videos
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Debugging self-doubt: A framework for building confidence
Explore a practical framework for tackling self-doubt with a debugging mindset to build lasting confidence and stronger teams.
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Lessons from the other side: What your VP is actually thinking
Learn how to build a partnership with your VP by sharing unfiltered reality and gaining the context you need.
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The altitude slider: Knowing when to dive into code vs. drive the strategy
Practical cues and rituals that help senior ICs oscillate between architectural vision and hands-on execution.
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Escaping the rewrite trap
Gain practical frameworks to assess rewrites vs. evolution, plan successful migrations, and align teams and stakeholders without losing momentum.
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Technical Steering Groups: Balancing autonomy, technical alignment, and speed through strategic collaboration
Learn how technical steering groups drive technical alignment while fostering ownership – balancing autonomy and collaboration to fuel speed, innovation, and impactful decision-making across teams.
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Honey, I shrunk the bill!
Learn proven strategies to reduce cloud spend by improving visibility, auditing usage, and optimizing data and microservices infrastructure for efficiency
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10 things nobody tells you about OKRs
OKRs are a simple – and useful – sounding idea, but in practice, there are all kinds of troubles people get bogged down in. Here are ten, rarely mentioned, things that can help.
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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The journey from monolith to microservices
Are you starting a new application and wondering whether to go with a monolith or take the microservices path?
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Seven key considerations in early development
It’s empowering for developers and other people involved in the inception of a project to have tools for making the project better long-term.
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What I wish I knew as a first time Tech Lead
The path from being a developer to a Tech Lead seems like a scary transition. As a developer, you could focus on constantly learning new tools, libraries, frameworks and programming languages.
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Managing everyday BAU as a tech lead
As a developer you are used to certain constants in your life such as battling with a compiler/interpreter or debugging a production issue only to discover a single, tiny error.
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How to estimate as as an engineering leader
Estimating time is like packing for a long holiday. No matter how hard you try, you always feel like you forgot something important.
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Communicating as an engineering leader
To build great teams you need to understand people. One of your core skills as a leader should be the ability to have effective conversations with your team, the rest of your organisation, and your customers.
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Improving your feedback loop on engineering teams
The feedback loop is easily the most effective way to improve individual and team performance.
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Prioritising personal development as en engineering leader
What should I focus on to become a better leader and to better support my team? Where do I find the time to keep my technical skills relevant? How do I learn more about the business so I can understand the needs of the organisation better?
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5 Features of a Good API
Everyone is writing APIs from micro-services through to full applications, but what makes a good one?
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Leadership Lessons from the Agile Manifesto
Whether you’re a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or Project Manager for an engineering team, you probably weren’t handed a leadership instruction manual when you were given your first team to lead.
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Running An Effective Mobile Engineering Team
Organisations often worry about their mobile teams. Sometimes they are a bit separate. There’s often this inexplicable hostility to mentions of “React Native”.
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Navigating different communication styles as engineers
Have you ever been told you’re “too direct,” or feel like you don’t understand what others want? Or on the other side, do you think others are often too confrontational?
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The Original Skunk Works
Long before Agile and Lean became buzzwords, a scrappy group of aerospace engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works were using similar practices to produce some of the most amazing aircraft ever built.
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Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering
Software development has been evolving. When I started in the industry, working at companies like Microsoft, we would bet many person-years of development and many millions of dollars into the development of products that would sometimes be hits and sometimes be total duds
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Documentation in Agile
We value “working software over comprehensive documentation”. That is, while there is value in documentation, we value working software more.
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Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team
The current status quo in running and scaling out teams is to have everyone work in the same office or in offices across different locations.
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Starting, executing, and landing big rewrites
There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to deliver new features because of unnecessarily complicated code.
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How to automate a11y testing
Are you still testing accessibility by hand? Or worse, have a dedicated person doing so? Stop! Now!
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How to mentor Junior Engineers
To get her foot in the door, she had to convince very smart people that she could write software because she can do ballet. It took a few tries.
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Rethinking the Developer Career Path
Our current methods for measuring a developer’s career progression are broken. At best, we count the number of days someone’s been paid to write code and massage that into a title. As a result, there’s no consensus as to what a given title means, leading to frustration for everyone.
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How tech hiring fails us all
From the outrageous to the sad, hiring experiences in tech can be really … bad! For the hiree and the hirer! From both sides of the table, Crystal has seen illegal and immoral behaviour — choices that damage companies as much as they damage individuals. Let’s do better. Please. We can improve this.
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The Inclusive Leader: Tips for Developing Diverse Engineering Teams
Managing people is hard. Managing people who aren’t like you is harder. As we push to build more diverse teams, how do we ensure everyone can succeed equally?
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Centralising the Right Things
uSwitch has a strong dev ops culture, we’ve learnt over time what should be handled by teams and what the organisation should provide.
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What engineering leaders need to know about blockchain
If you’ve not been hiding under a rock, you must have heard about Blockchain. This session will throw some light on why it matters to businesses and techies, and how is it chaining the world one block at a time.