LeadDev Courses

The Perils of Context Switching: Managing Mental Load in Software Engineering

Discover effective strategies to minimize context switching, optimize development workflows, and boost engineering productivity by streamlining tool selection and build processes.

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

Optimizing Cloud Costs - Understanding Roles and Responsibilities in Cloud Cost Management

Gain insights into effective cloud cost management strategies, team responsibilities, and tools for fostering ownership of cloud spending across your organization.

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

Making Code Reviews More Inclusive and Productive

Discover effective strategies for inclusive code reviews, focusing on social aspects, best practices, and team collaboration to create a more positive and diverse engineering culture.

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

Scientific Methods for Debugging Complex Software Issues

Master scientific debugging techniques to tackle complex, recurring bugs through observation, hypothesis testing, and experimentation. Learn proven methods for stabilizing tests, CI infrastructure, and production issues.

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

Escaping Your DIY Feature Flags

Discover how to break free from DIY feature flagging and enable effective control of gradual rollouts and experiments without operational overhead.

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

Hiring in 2025: Quality Over Quantity

Discover effective strategies for tech recruitment in a constrained market, exploring current trends and predictions shaping hiring landscapes in 2025.

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

How to Be an Influential Leader

Discover effective strategies for engineering leadership through influence and impact, regardless of your title, to better inspire and guide stakeholders.

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

Building the Dream Incident Response Team

Discover practical strategies for assembling and developing high-performing incident response teams that effectively handle critical situations.

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

Prove the Value of Platform Engineering

Discover how to measure platform engineering effectiveness and connect improved developer experience to business outcomes for engineering leaders.

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

What to Do with Developer Productivity Metrics

Discover effective strategies for engineering managers to extract meaningful insights from developer productivity metrics, moving beyond data fatigue to purposeful measurement.

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

How Better Developer Experience Drives Results

Discover how engineering leaders transformed developer experience, gained stakeholder buy-in, and used metrics to build compelling cases for DevEx improvements that drive organizational results.

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

Delivering Features on the World's Biggest Stage - Best Practices and Strategies

Discover proven strategies and best practices for successfully deploying features at massive scale, focusing on reliability, performance, and risk management.

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

Measuring Engineering Team Productivity - Qualitative Metrics and Developer Experience

Discover effective approaches to measure developer experience and productivity through qualitative metrics, surveys, and data interpretation for engineering teams.

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

Developing Self-Management for Technical Leadership

Discover effective self-management strategies for leadership roles, from defining your evolving responsibilities to developing adaptable leadership styles and managing energy constraints.

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

Is Efficiency a Good Thing? The Hidden Costs of Optimization in Modern Tech

Explore the paradox of modern efficiency in tech - from automated systems and optimization to burnout and resource consumption, questioning if we're pursuing the right goals.

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