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How to manage rampant layoff anxiety

Layoff anxiety is on the rise as workforce confidence plummets. How do engineering leaders respond?

Conference talks

Managing the marathon: Leading teams through lengthy migration projects

In this short talk, Lawrence will reflect on his experience leading teams through multi-year migration projects.

Making smart investments: A framework for maximizing your ROI in technical decisions

In this talk, we’re going to explore a framework for evaluating the return on investment (ROI) of complex tech decisions, illustrated with real-world examples that highlight both the traps to avoid and the paths to success. I’ll share methods for pinpointing key metrics that matter, and how to design experiments or proof-of-concepts to measure ROI. Finally we will discuss the importance of staying objective and adaptable throughout the process. 

Debug Like a Scientist

This talk will enhance your programming toolbox for the hardest bugs. Not only this – but you’ll see how to scale effective debugging to the entire team. Last but not least – you’ll leave with a set of habits to share with your fellow engineers to help them step up their debugging game.

Reports

In partnership with Terminal

Remote Engineer Salary Insights Report

New and emerging tech hubs. Talent availability. Cutting-edge technologies. These are just a handful of factors impacting remote engineering roles in 2025.

In partnership with Harness

The State of Feature Management and Experimentation

How are engineering teams releasing new features safely and successfully?

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In partnership with O’Reilly

The Engineering Team Performance Report 2024

How do organizations measure their engineering team performance?

The Engineering Leadership Report 2024

We asked 1,100+ engineering leaders how their roles are changing in response to a rapidly changing economic landscape. Here’s what we found.

Upcoming webinars

  • In partnership with Harness

    Incident response before the incident

    With high-profile outages striking increasingly frequently, incident prevention and readiness are critical, but not at the expense of speed or innovation.

  • Break silos and build cross-functional bridges

    Cross-functional alignment is what makes (or breaks) teams. When engineering, product, and business come together to navigate conflict, foster collaboration, and encourage shared ownership, progress soars.

  • How to master the perfect pull request

    Pull requests are an essential part of collaborative development, but one that’s often rushed or fraught for teams juggling increasing workloads and competing priorities.

The festival of engineering leadership

London • June 16 & 17, 2025

Must read

How AI generated code compounds technical debt

“I don’t think I have ever seen so much technical debt being created in such a short period of time”

The relentless rise of the PIP

The dreaded performance improvement plan (PIP) is becoming a more popular management tool than ever, but do they actually work?

Skills you need to become a well-rounded engineering manager

Being an engineering manager who can juggle it all in any organization means honing skills like delegation, mentorship, and coaching.

How banks caught up in the battle for developer talent

Who will win the battle of big banks vs big tech jobs?

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Tech’s war on middle management is just getting started

The middle manager class is under attack. Is it still fit for purpose, or are engineering teams due a reshuffle?

On our LeadDev playlist

Lena Reinhard LeadingEng Berlin 2024

Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader

Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.

Evan

Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT

Evan Morikawa gives you a behind the scenes look at how we scaled ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs. A story about staying nimble enough to release new capabilities and to respond quickly to a rapidly changing industry.

James Stanier Berlin 2022

Shopify’s remote working toolbox

This talk presents Shopify’s remote working toolbox, which is a collection of learnings, best practices and ideas for other leaders that are wishing to work and attract talent globally, but must fundamentally shift their culture to do so.

Career vectors for technical leaders

Mix and match skills to become the best technical leader that you can be.

In partnership with O’Reilly

The metrics you loved to hate in 2024

And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.