LeadDev Live
The Lead Developer is an online community that develops thought-leading content in the form of conferences and meetups designed with the needs and pain points of technical team leads in mind. We programme each event around our three key themes of Team, Tech & Tools. The talks are designed to help very practically with common problems in these areas.
LeadDev Live
21 min
Engineering management in the time of coronavirus
Samuel Serban
As unprecedented situations occur, as a company it is your duty to ensure the safety of your employees. As such, you've made the decision to work remotely; you've made sure everyone's safe and that t…
LeadDev Live
44 min
Strategies for rapidly pivoting to remote work
Lena Reinhard, Katie Womersley, Juan Pablo Buritica, Alice Goldfuss
As the spread of coronavirus has escalated in the last few weeks, more companies have closed offices and moved to entirely remote working. For those experienced in remote work, the benefits are clear…
LeadDev Live
32 min
I’m newly remote under coronavirus, AMA
Kathleen Vignos, Chris Alden, Adrian Cruz, Ale Paredes
In this session, we’ve assembled a group of engineering leaders who have had their working life affected by coronavirus. Attendees will have the opportunity to pre-submit questions to the panel to un…
LeadDev Live
44 min
Avoiding the pitfalls of rebuilding software
Jai Chakrabarti, Bryan Liles, Dan Berry, Erica Stanley
If you think back to the work you were doing last year, it probably feels miles away - and that’s great! As engineers, we’re continually building and creating great new stuff - it’s what we do. But …
LeadDev Live
49 min
Finding potential in your interview processes
Jason Wong, Clement Ho, Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie, Shannon Hogue-Brown
Hiring engineers is hard. And with over half of C-suite executives saying that the future of their company relies on being able to source engineering talent, making the correct decisions about who to…
LeadDev Live
36 min
Apps, stacks & frameworks: Avoiding "Shiny Object" Syndrome
Angel Rivera
Technology is fast moving, and devops tools pop up like wildfire. Teams are desperate to solve their problems & often make implementation decisions based on word of mouth, “kick the tires” syndrome o…
LeadDev Live
26 min
Risky business: taking risks in production
Mathew Hawthorne, Leemay Nassery
Being an engineer, we all have at least one common thread: We like to build things. That is why writing code and architecting platforms that scale for millions of customers is appealing. However, shi…