LeadDev Courses

Adapting Leadership Styles for Different Personalities

2 ratings

Adapt leadership styles to diverse team personalities, unlocking potential through tailored communication, appreciation, and career progression approaches.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Think Faster, Talk Smarter - Improving Communication Skills and Overcoming Speaking Anxiety

2 ratings

Improve communication skills, speak confidently under pressure, and overcome anxiety with expert strategies for effective public speaking.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Teams Test at AI Powered Velocity

1 rating

Discover how development teams adapt their testing strategies and methodologies to maintain quality while leveraging AI tools for accelerated software delivery cycles.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Hallucinations to Hard Truths - Building AI Systems in Fast-Growing Companies

1 rating

Discover the messy realities of scaling AI at a FinTech startup, from hiring challenges to production pitfalls and hard-learned lessons about building AI systems.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Joy of Being Wrong - Rethinking Assumptions for Better Leadership

1 rating

Discover how challenging assumptions and embracing being wrong leads to better leadership, stronger teams, and smarter decision-making through real-world examples and scientific thinking.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Speed vs Safety: Rethinking Software Release Practices

Explore the balance between rapid software delivery and robust safety practices in engineering leadership.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Overcome Feeling Isolated as a Senior Engineering Leader

Combat leadership isolation: Build supportive networks, foster genuine connections, and balance personal well-being while leading engineering teams to success.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nail the Pitch and Stick the Landing - Effective Strategies for Engineering Proposals

Master the art of pitching engineering projects to management. Learn strategies for convincing decision-makers to prioritize crucial infrastructure work over feature development.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The OSS Maintainer to Staff Engineer Pipeline - StaffPlus New York 2024

Explore how open source software maintenance practices translate to staff engineering skills, scaling influence, and effective collaboration.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility - Engineering Ethics in the Modern Era

Explore the critical shift in software engineering towards failure-safe systems and learn how leaders can drive this change in the profession.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Big Picture of Debt - Understanding and Managing Technical Debt

Explore technical debt through a database case study, distinguishing good from regrettable choices and learning when to tackle complex issues.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Explosive Overflow: Lessons from Rocket Science - StaffPlus New York 2024

Explore rocket science lessons on resilience and product security, analyzing historical software flaws to improve design, testing, and validation practices.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Software Security as a Force of Nature

Explore effective principles and practices for sustaining systems resilience, drawing inspiration from nature, human adaptations, and engineering practices.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Psychologically Safe Reliability Management

Explore organizational challenges in observability platform adoption, focusing on psychological safety and effective reliability management strategies.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Navigators: Driving Alignment in Growing Engineering Organizations

Discover strategies for organizational alignment through Carta's initiatives: defining shared execution strategy and designating senior engineers as "Navigators" to drive and interpret strategy across teams.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video