Code Red - The Business Impact of Code Quality
Explore the business impact of code quality, learn to visualize and quantify technical debt, and discover strategies for prioritizing improvements to enhance productivity and reduce development costs.
What We Learned from Lord of the Rings
Explore team building, project management, and leadership lessons from Lord of the Rings. Learn how to create successful teams, overcome challenges, and achieve goals against all odds.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Insightful discussion on managing legacy code, covering AI's impact, defining legacy systems, testing strategies, refactoring techniques, and balancing maintenance with new development for improved software quality.
Remote Teams - 5 Things I'm Doing Wrong & Maybe You Should Too
Challenging conventional wisdom on leading distributed teams, exploring alternative structures for happier, more productive remote work environments and fostering a great culture of distributed collaboration.
Social Contracts for Engineering Teams - Finding the Right Glue to Help Your Teamwork Stick
Explore social contract theory for engineering teams: create explicit agreements, reinforce teamwork, and launch into high-performance mode. Learn techniques for building and maintaining effective team dynamics.
Grow Your Own Tech Leads
Discover strategies for nurturing in-house technical leaders, fostering growth and retention. Learn actionable ideas for aspiring tech leads and ways to create an inclusive environment for leadership development.
Code Review - Review is the Manager's Job
Explore the manager's role in code reviews, balancing supervision and micromanagement. Learn effective habits for engaging with the process and fostering a productive development culture.
Playing Games with Scrum
Explore how to improve Scrum implementation through game analogies. Learn effective strategies to enhance team collaboration, productivity, and overall Agile development practices.
Take Away "Dev" and "QA" from Engineer's Job Title and Build a Truly "One Team" - The Gumtree Bidirectional Transformation Journey
Discover how Gumtree transformed their engineering team by removing "Dev" and "QA" titles, fostering collaboration, and shifting testing responsibilities to create a unified, agile workforce.
How I CTO
Gil Tene shares insights on the CTO role, discussing business understanding, adaptability, problem-solving, and the evolving nature of technology leadership in this engaging conference talk.
How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify's Most Loved Features From Being Killed
Exploring how Spotify's autonomous team culture led to the creation of Discover Weekly, highlighting the importance of data-driven decisions, experimentation, and aligned autonomy in fostering innovation.
Agile Product Design From the Trenches
Insights from Minecraft, Spotify, and LEGO on effective agile product design. Explores prototyping, feedback, simplicity, and balancing agile processes with creative design in game development.
Decision Making & Heuristics
Explore decision-making models for CTOs, expert vs. non-expert approaches, and fostering a culture of intentional architecture and design heuristics to develop future technical leaders.
So You Want To Be A CTO
Insights and experiences from a seasoned CTO on building great products, leading engineering teams, and navigating executive roles in tech companies.
Replatform in a Year or Die - The Tale of a Turnaround
Discover how MYOB tackled tech debt through a massive replatform, revolutionizing their software development process and organizational structure to meet a critical deadline and drive the company forward.
Designing for Web3
Explore the challenges and opportunities of designing for Web3, including metaverse, finance apps, and NFTs. Learn key differences from Web2 and adapt your skills for this emerging domain.
Once Upon a Time in Agile
Explore how individual journeys to self-acceptance and alignment are key to supporting agile teams. Learn to create lasting change, help teams own their process, and tell their story for continuous realignment.
A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer
Explore Netflix's massive ecosystem: production changes, microservices, and engineering practices. Learn about innovation velocity, failure management, and customer experience obsession from a senior engineer's perspective.
Why Cloud Native is the New Standard
Explore cloud native as the new standard with experts from Microsoft Azure and AWS, discussing its benefits, serverless computing, and cost considerations for organizations of all sizes.
Instantly Better Presentations
Discover seven powerful techniques to create captivating, informative, and inspiring technical presentations. Learn to engage your audience effectively and elevate your communication skills.
Beyond the Code - Deploying Empathy
Explore best practices for understanding users and conducting effective customer interviews to develop empathy-driven solutions that address real needs and create meaningful impact.