LeadDev London 2023
2023-06-27..2023-06-28
London, United Kingdom
[LeadDev London 2022, LeadDev London 2023, LeadDev London 2024, LDX3 London 2025, LDX3 London 2026]
who it's for
engineering managers, people managers, tech leads, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, hiring managers, senior individual contributors
topics
developer productivity measurement; manager onboarding plans; pitfalls for new engineering leaders; return-to-work after parental leave; how to run a technical spike; platform engineering as product; exit planning for engineers; driving team pace; equitable hiring practices; cultural post mortems; data-driven on-call workflows; orchestrating cloud bots
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Where we’re going wrong with developer productivity | Cat Hicks | 26m |
Presents a clear claim: a science-backed metric called developer thriving (four factors: agency, learning culture, self-efficacy, belonging) predicts… | ||
| What do you mean there’s no onboarding plan for engineering managers? | Daniel Korn | 23m |
Lemonade introduces a four-week plan that combines classroom sessions and experiences so new engineering managers practice real firsts—run a daily, lead a… | ||
| Making the move to manager: Common pitfalls for new engineering leaders | Jacqueline Pan, Marlena Lui | 12m |
Transitioning into management centers on concrete practices not platitudes: made a list of everything on my plate and actually divided up items that could be… | ||
| Parents who code: How to welcome your developers back after parental leave | Sinéad Cummings | 25m |
Argues that measurable steps prevent returnee overwhelm and attrition and shows a working playbook used after a six month leave including a role specific… | ||
| How to effectively "Spike" a complex technical project | Aditya Bansal | 10m |
Advocates a concrete ritual: create a project-playground branch, let CI fail, treat code as throwaway and avoid tests, and limit the spike to one or two weeks… | ||
| Platform engineering is all about product | Gal Bashan | 23m |
Claim: platform engineering succeeds when the internal developer platform is treated as a product with measurable outcomes. Evidence: a survey shows 3%… | ||
| Exit plans and how to talk about them | David Kiger | 27m |
Claim: normalize asking what's your exit plan across teams to reduce surprises. Method: run one-on-ones, collect vetted examples, give a group presentation… | ||
| How to drive pace in your team | Alicia Collymore | 17m |
Claims concrete tactics: set team defaults that put pace at the centre, break work into one to two week projects or smaller slices, pick boring reliable tech… | ||
| Engineering a more equitable hiring process | Jason Wodicka | 30m |
Claims concrete results from Carrot data including that after three practice interviews candidates are six times more likely to get the job and twice as likely… | ||
| Cultural post mortems: an approach to learning and recovering when your people systems fail | Winna Bridgewater | 25m |
A concrete claim: apply systems thinking and a postmortem to people-system failures rather than vague reflection. The team runs a shared postmortem, documents… | ||
| Red 2.0: Transforming a game company | Colin Walder | 24m |
CD Projekt applies the Red 2.0 Manifesto to reshape teams after the Cyberpunk 2077 launch, adopting concrete changes: split leadership into engineering… | ||
| Build a data-driven on-call workflow for your team with atomic habits | Bianca Costache | 26m |
Claims a repeatable, data-driven on-call workflow inspired by Atomic Habits that cuts alert noise and creates time for improvement, backed by real metrics: an… | ||
| Driving positive change through performance improvement plans | Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia | 11m |
Performance improvement plans get reframed as a practical rescue plan: start early, set measurable evaluation criteria and a clear timeline with a defined… | ||
| James Stanier, Winter Wi, Janet Balneaves a panel discussion at LeadDev London 2023 | James Stanier, Winter Wi, Janet Balneaves | 30m |
Panel lays out concrete practices: a trifecta decision model (product, design, engineering share equal voice), a public proposal–prototype–build workflow with… | ||
| Orchestrating thousands of bots from the cloud | James Donkin | 11m |
Claims a cloud migration of real-time orchestration that preserves millisecond predictability and throughput: uses AWS Outposts as an insurance policy for… | ||
| Managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change | David Yee | 30m |
Argues that engineering management pivots around concrete events: circa 2009 the rise of Stack Overflow, GitHub, AWS/Heroku and Twitter changes how teams work… | ||
| Riding the rollercoaster of emotions | Gabriel Michaels | 11m |
A leader recounts a missed-deadline crisis where anger clouds judgment then explicitly uses three practices to prevent damage: identify situations of slight… | ||
| The awful agony of the app store: When software delivery goes wrong | Clare Sudbery | 27m |
A hobby iOS project that spent five years in development becomes a Wordle-like game used to test App Store delivery and hits bureaucracy: first attempt two… | ||
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