Without Data, You're Just Another Person with Opinions
Explore data-driven DevOps and cross-cutting metrics integration for insightful decision-making in engineering organizations. Learn practical dos and don'ts for effective implementation and interpretation.
Five Common Signs of a Dysfunctional Leadership Team
Explore common signs of dysfunctional leadership teams and gain practical insights to improve cross-functional collaboration, based on experiences from Atlassian's successful triad structure.
Sabotaging a Transformation
Explores common inhibitors to successful transformations in organizations, offering insights on identifying saboteurs and implementing effective mitigation strategies to overcome resistance and drive change.
Managers Are Not That Stupid
Explore management and leadership in agile contexts, focusing on teams' essential contributions. Learn how to renegotiate management tasks and overcome challenges for successful agile implementation.
Lessons from Leading through Uncertain Times
Insights on navigating leadership challenges during unprecedented global changes, focusing on effective change management strategies and lessons learned from the pandemic experience.
Move Fast But Don't Break Things
Discover strategies for maintaining startup agility while meeting enterprise demands. Learn to balance speed with stability, certainty, and compliance in software development for large-scale customers.
Software Engineering at Google
Insights from Google engineers on sustainable coding practices, team building, and software engineering challenges. Explores build systems, cultural improvements, and career growth in tech.
Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix
Explore Netflix's cloud performance analysis techniques, tools, and procedures for root cause identification across 150k instances, featuring open-source solutions for cloud-wide and instance-level optimization.
Explore, Expand, Extract
Explore software engineering goals and how they shape development styles. Learn about 3X methodology and its impact on various aspects of software creation and management.
In the Pursuit of the Best Developer Experience
Explore strategies for optimizing developer experience in enterprise settings, from streamlined onboarding to dynamic team changes, governance, and value stream management.
How to Deal with Hypergrowth
Insights on navigating hypergrowth challenges in organizations, covering context-setting, technical decisions, scaling leadership, reassessing impact, and supporting teams through rapid expansion.
Sabotaging an Agile Transformation
Explores common inhibitors to successful agile transformations and provides strategies to overcome them, including case studies, mitigation actions, and best practices for anticipating challenges.
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Octopus
Insights on rapidly scaling an R&D team: strategies for growth, managing challenges, and building high-performance teams. Learn from Octopus Deploy's journey of tripling their team size in 8 months.
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.
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.
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.
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.