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"Engaging in a logic battle with them is like playing chess with a pigeon." I loved Maxime N.'s breakdown of the 5 detractor archetypes and how to persuade them: The uninformed The naysayer The pragmatist The burned  The irrational

📢 Join us for the final LeadDev London Meetup of the year! 🗓 Date: November 13th 📍 Location: Softwire office ⏰ Time: Arrive by 6pm Hosted by Marcus Gardiner & Helen Jackson, this meetup features an incredible lineup of speakers: 🎙 Stuart Knowles 🎙 Maureen Makes 🎙 Sook Meng Muk Don’t miss your chance to connect, learn, and close out the year with fellow developers and tech enthusiasts! Registrations close tomorrow; don't miss out! A big thank you to our amazing organisers Vahid Panjganj, Steve Bennett, Melinda Seckington, Helen Jackson, Marcus Gardiner and our host Softwire

If you didn't get a chance to listen in to our episode with Gary Stevens, Director of Engineering, at Trainline, then you might want to dip into our transcript of the conversation. Take a peek to learn about Gary's views on the importance of engagement as an engineering leader, mentoring vs coaching, and the role of machine learning in the travel booking experience.

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🚅 Going back from Berlin to Munich - with LeadingEng, one of my best conferences so far, in the books. I came with high expectations, and those were not in vain! Kudos to the LeadDev team for pulling off one of the best-organised events I've attended so far. I could be raving about all the high-quality sessions and talks, but I liked most that there was so much semi-structured space to get in touch with interesting people. People like Jens Küsters Robert Hochstrat Christian Dewein Klaus Breyer Nico Z. Sascha Rau .Gustavo Arjones Aurélien DIDIER Rui Pereira Kalle Ott Kalpana Devi Johan Bergebo Olaf Molenveld Evgeny Sharypin and so many more! Here are a few topics and insights that appeared over and over again: 🚧 Managing technical debt and modernising applications is and always will be a crucial part of building and maintaining software products. Often, the technical challenges turn out to be easier than the corresponding change and stakeholder management. ⏱️ Metrics are everywhere, but rarely are they used to their full potential. Not only talks like the one from Lena Reinhard highlighted this, the topic popped up in many other conversations as well. And we're talking about all kinds of metrics, team and process, technical observability, as well as business KPIs. Mastering your metrics is a very strong indicator for success. 🤝 Collaborating effectively across functions and bringing tech, product, business, or whatever you call them together is crucial. There are so many war stories and best practices to learn from if you just talk to people. And it all starts with the right mindset of being in it together. What were other highlights you take away from this event? #LeadDevBerlin #conference

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Great couple of days at LeadDev Berlin 🇩🇪 Some amazing talks, plenty of notes taken and ideas ready to take back to the teams. Having attended two years in a row now I can’t recommend LeadDev enough, always has a great range of speakers and topics for everyone. #LeadDevBerlin

Huge thanks to all of our amazing speakers, activity hosts, sponsors, my wonderful co-host Nikita Rathi and the entire LeadDev team for an absolutely brilliant event. See you next year for #LeadDevBerlin (or maybe even come along to our 10th anniversary #LeadDevLondon!?!)

The first two days of this week were truly amazing, thanks to LeadDev I’m starting today with plenty of learnings and the excitement of trying out these new practices in our daily work. The talks were fantastic, as always, but my favourite part of the conference (like last year) was exchanging experiences and ideas—and discovering different practices through the Table Talks. This year, I was also selected as a co-host for a table talk, where we discussed how to speed up our team’s deployment times. The variety of perspectives and the "lightbulb" moments were truly inspiring, but what made it even better was the feeling of being part of a big, supportive community. Looking forward to the next one!

Many thanks to the brilliant LeadDev team for our presence at LeadDev Berlin. Your conferences are incredible, and we're delighted to receive your kind support. It warms our hearts to see the CodeYourFuture community connecting in Berlin, too. Great to see you, Dora Chatzinaki - Verified Geek Podcast!