LeadDev London 2022
2022-06-07..2022-06-08
London, United Kingdom
[LeadDev London 2022, LeadDev London 2023, LeadDev London 2024, LDX3 London 2025, LDX3 London 2026]
who it's for
engineering managers, tech leads, senior engineers, developer experience engineers, hiring managers, people managers, staff engineers
topics
accessibility audits and tooling; asynchronous meeting design; remote 90-day onboarding plan; release train and feature flags; hiring process and take-home exercises; monolith architecture decision-making; burnout interruption techniques; developer happiness measurement; dashboarding and SPACE metrics; incident-driven team learning; career-leveling and mentoring practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable means performant | Alex Canessa | 10m |
Claim: an average website emits 1.76 g CO2 per page view, so 100k monthly visits become ~2,112 kg CO2/year and the internet ranks like the seventh largest… | ||
| Navigating the chaos of scaling | Vitor Reis | 29m |
Fast growth produces concrete stressors: waking at 3 AM for a database incident, running 5–6 interviews a week, launching an MVP failed then pivot, promoting… | ||
| Keeping your codebase fun at scale | Raul Chedrese | 11m |
Claims a repeatable three-step process — measure developer happiness with a survey every three months (1–5 per codebase), write a concise front-end vision… | ||
| How to bring accessibility into your teams | Laveena Ramchandani | 29m |
Argues that accessibility must be in the definition of done and shift left rather than an afterthought, backing that with audits, Lighthouse/axe/wave/ARC scans… | ||
| CSS: Cascading Support Systems | Phil Bennett | 10m |
Claims that empathy can be scaled by adapting Solution-Focused Brief Therapy into a simple, repeatable routine, backed by concrete tools and results: a… | ||
| What dashboards don't tell you | Laura Tacho | 14m |
Argues that self‑perception matters as much as telemetry and that dashboards often surface vanity metrics that can be gamed (Goodhart’s law and simple python… | ||
| Scale, Scale, Scale! (Lessons from an engineering recruitment drive) | Jenny Sivapalan | 23m |
Small startup that builds UK healthcare comms scales engineering from ~20 to ~48 in a year after aiming for 30+ hires target by autumn but finishing later… | ||
| Building the perfect asynchronous meeting | Alexandra Sunderland | 26m |
Claims a repeatable recipe: replace busywork with async steps, use a shared board (Fellow or Miro/Figma) for virtual post‑its, comments and votes, and reserve… | ||
| How to build trust as a new manager in a fully remote team | Sadhana Gopal | 10m |
Delivers a concrete 90-day plan that claims intentionality is the single biggest lever for trust in a fully remote, digital‑first org like Shopify; first 30… | ||
| People building: Career planning for your direct reports | Daniel Burke | 27m |
Claims concrete tactics: use a career-leveling framework and a self-assessment spreadsheet to align level and performance, send a motivation questionnaire, set… | ||
| Scaling your mobile app release process | Neil Kimmett | 27m |
Concrete practices and tools are named and shown: versioning and branching choices, moving from feature-based releases to a release train, and adopting feature… | ||
| Seven surprisingly simple ways to stem burnout | Anna Granta | 11m |
Seven concrete interventions are offered to interrupt prolonged stress and reduce burnout rather than vague exhortations: rectangular breathing teaches short… | ||
| Taking the 737 to the MAX! Nick Means at | Nickolas Means | 40m |
Flight telemetry and the NTSC report show a faulty angle of attack sensor repeatedly triggers the new software system MCAS, causing uncommanded nose‑down trim… | ||
| Grygoiry Gonchar at | Grygoiry Gonchar | 32m |
Concrete claims about when to localize and how to implement it: shows Typescript definition and a configurable React component pattern to toggle fields like… | ||
| Career Changers: enabling the huge untapped potential in developers from different backgrounds | Marcus Gardiner | 11m |
Conference data and practice-focused prescriptions: 40% of software hires are by non‑tech companies, bootcamps run two to four months while apprenticeships run… | ||
| Constructing a framework for a differentiated customer experience. | Jasmine James | 26m |
Presents a concrete framework (DUCC: discoverability, usability, capability, credibility) and the first iteration of it, with concrete actions: user research… | ||
| Why we are writing a monolith, not a microservice | Supriya Srivatsa | 08m |
A decade old monolith splits into app catalog and a new pricing module rather than two over‑the‑network services after usage analysis shows they'd be chatty… | ||
| Navigating the minefield of changing working relationships when stepping into leadership | Humayra Hanif | 28m |
Recommendation: aim to set up a one-to-one with every direct report by the end of week one, collect early feedback, and credit the team for wins rather than… | ||
| A Commune in the Ivory Tower? – A new approach to architecture decisions | Andrew Harmel-Law | 31m |
Claims a non‑blocking, decentralized decision flow using the advice process from teal organizations, backed by lightweight ADRs that record context… | ||
| Sorry… you go ahead. The art of making space and claiming space in meetings | Jemma Bolland | 09m |
Meetings get fixed by concrete practices not pep talks: research shows 35% can always speak so plan for the quieter voices by doing prep beforehand, naming who… | ||
| Development setup: how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked | Gus Fune | 07m |
Claim that an overlooked part of the toolset is killing productivity backed by three concrete cases: one developer codes in Notepad for six years producing… | ||
| Success isn’t repeatable | Hywel Carver | 29m |
Claims that success isn't repeatable and that wisdom differs from knowledge and skill; learning models include Bloom's taxonomy and ICAP and a new triad… | ||
| Why mentoring selfishly is better than selflessly | John Apostol | 26m |
Claim: mentoring selfishly—taking mentees to practice new management skills—accelerates growth more than vague, selfless help. Uses ADP List as a source of… | ||
| Using incidents to level-up your teams | Lisa Karlin Curtis | 11m |
API slows to a crawl because one endpoint times out; team disabled endpoint to restore service, then diagnoses a Postgres query plan regression and deploys a… | ||
| Be the catalyst in a junior engineer's career | Jessie Auguste, Amber Shand | 24m |
Data-driven hiring claim: 38% vs 26%—surveyed hirers rate bootcamp grads better prepared than CS grads. Concrete onboarding and development steps include… | ||
| Key aspects of managing senior engineers | Katja Lotz | 10m |
Three concrete practices decide whether senior engineers thrive: nurture the multiplier effect by noticing and rewarding mentoring and role-model behaviour and… | ||
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