LeadDev Berlin 2024
2024-11-04..2024-11-05
Berlin, Germany
[LeadDev Berlin 2019, LeadDev Berlin 2022, LeadDev Berlin 2023, LeadDev Berlin 2024]
who it's for
engineering managers, tech leads, senior engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering recruiters
topics
probabilistic delivery estimates; team capacity building; observability-driven automation; incremental service catalogs; shared on-call rotations; technical debt remediation; migration to Temporal; industrial-scale ML platforms; green cloud operations; candidate experience improvements; mentorship and sponsorship programs; intercultural feedback techniques
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Leading through scarcity: Building capacity in the team | Irina Stanescu | 25m |
Claims that tech hiring and orgs are in an era of scarcity with two out of three managers reporting burnout lead to a specific playbook: run inefficiency… | ||
| Estimates as probabilities | Luis Martin-Santos | 11m |
Claim: replace point estimates with a probability map for time of delivery and iterate probabilities over months, weeks, days and hours. Concrete tools: elicit… | ||
| What we talk about when we talk about leadership | Lena Reinhard | 27m |
Argues that hype-driven bets on AI and other hot tech produce PR numbers (Google’s 25% code claim) and small efficiency stats (Scale: 62% report internal… | ||
| How games brought our Engineering Principles to life | Christoph Neijenhuis | 11m |
An engineering organization makes principles stick by turning repetition into play: the claim is that short interactive games keep principles top of mind and… | ||
| Why you’re doing service catalogs wrong | Lisa Karlin Curtis | 25m |
Argues that service catalogs must be built incrementally and as side effects of solving real problems — start by solving alert routing, access and onboarding… | ||
| Feeling the squeeze? A sustainable solution for busy teams | Sarah Hsu | 12m |
Claims that GreenOps extends DevOps and builds on FinOps with concrete practices: measure, monitor, optimize, operate; recommends cloud visibility, on‑demand… | ||
| Level up the whole party, not just the hero | Denise Yu | 26m |
Argues that managers decide growth by concrete daily choices and shows how to do it: measure expertise as cursed knowledge, use proximal development and… | ||
| Decoding candidate experiences: A new era in tech hiring | Elif Schaefer | 11m |
Data and interviews from the What the Candidate says podcast and follow-up conversations show mass layoffs swell applicant pools while open roles shrink… | ||
| On-call revolution: Fostering ownership and collaboration | Ayelen Chavez | 19m |
Consolidating four team rotations into one shared on-call pool (nine people) cuts on-call cost by about 75% cost reduction, reduces noisy alerts by up to 80%… | ||
| What your browser can teach you about software security | Mark Goodwin | 11m |
Browsers execute arbitrary untrusted code yet concrete engineering choices make them safe: sandboxing isolates high‑privilege data from untrustworthy inputs… | ||
| Managing authentically across levels | Alicia Collymore | 12m |
Give engineers the same goal alignment but different responsibilities and adapt management by seniority: juniors get weekly feedback and rapidly shifting goals… | ||
| Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback | Erica Chesley | 12m |
Claims and concrete tactics: teachers’ studies show a grade next to written feedback makes learners ignore the feedback and perform worse later; a 30‑word… | ||
| Ice, confusion, and the 38,000ft crash | Nickolas Means | 36m |
A forensic narrative that names the claim — a four‑minute cascade from icing to crash — and shows the evidence: recovered black boxes, ACARS telemetry and CVR… | ||
| Tackling tech debt | Meri Williams | 26m |
A concrete playbook: visualize tech debt with DORA metrics and tooling like Swarmer and LinearB, benchmark externally, secure sustained allocation of… | ||
| Exploring the (testing) pyramid | Andreas Klumpp | 12m |
Over 90% of top websites lack full accessibility and automated checks sit mostly at the end so projects slow and fixes land in production; a rebuilt pyramid… | ||
| Tech odyssey: The epic saga of a mega migration to temporal | Renu Yadav | 24m |
The team migrates Grab Unlimited from a brittle legacy to Temporal, using a focused tiger team (two backend, one QA) and a staged per-country rollout across… | ||
| Scaling ML platforms to industrialize AI/ML development | Lyubomira Dimitrova | 14m |
Company verifies millions of identities daily using hundreds of ML models and builds a proprietary internal data labeling tool that becomes impossible to… | ||
| Mentorship & Sponsorship | Lara Hogan | 28m |
Sponsorship, not just mentorship, directly moves careers: studies show people of color are nearly twice as likely to be satisfied with advancement when… | ||
| Feedback for intercultural teams – Where is the map? | Alisa Tikhova | 10m |
A practical claim: run a ways‑of‑working workshop, build a culture map of direct/indirect and high/low‑context preferences, and codify simple rules like say… | ||
| Backwards compatible – Lessons from 25 years in software | Anjuan Simmons | 29m |
Career advice distilled from 25 years centers on concrete habits: make the sale in five minutes during interviews, negotiate total compensation, keep a brag… | ||
| Exhausted but not burned out: Leading through a tough project | Yamila Maio | 26m |
Claim: a team survives a sudden high‑stakes project exhausted but not burned out by closing the stress cycle, clearing calendars, and making three plans — for… | ||
| There and back again: Lessons on entering middle management | Jakob Anders | 13m |
Promotion moves from managing two teams to seven teams and proves quantitatively costly: three years of good performance, constant firefighting, more… | ||
| Breaking barriers: Embracing neurodiversity in tech | Jonathan Fielding | 28m |
A first-hand account details diagnosed dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism, running an employee resource group, and concrete supports that work: extra time and… | ||
| From hurdles to highways | Eugene Klyuchnikov | 24m |
GetYourGuide rebuilds a tightly coupled experimentation service into a componentized platform, while running 50 experiments concurrently, forms a dedicated… | ||
| How to talk to everyone | Najla Elmachtoub | 11m |
Argues that deliberate systems of connection scale: use weekly 1 on 1s with directs, add quarterly skip-levels (about 40 current skip-level relationships… | ||
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