Tech Leadership

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We’ve partnered with @devconfza 2026 🚀 📍 JHB — 12 May 📍 CPT — 14 May Join us + use code techleadcommunity when buying your ticket 👇 devconf.co.za 🎁 Community with the most attendees wins a prize Let’s show up strong 💪 #DevConf #TechLeadership #Developers

We are one week away from our 1st Tech Leadership in-person meetup in Johannesburg! 💡 Looking forward to seeing you there! Topic - Leading People, Not Profiles meetup.com/tech-leadershi…

DevConf is a celebration of the South African software developer community! We’re proud to be a Community Partner. Come learn, network, and be inspired on May 12 (JHB) or May 14 (CPT). 🔗 devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

@TechLeadershipX is coming to my old stomping grounds - JHB get ready for a great evening, you'll get to rub shoulders with some really cool people and come away with something worth thinking about. If you can you should free up the evening and attend - it'll be worth it.

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Join us for our next in-person Tech Leadership Meetup. Topic - Leadership in the age of The Strongman Speaker - Sven Agnew (Senior Engineer at Takealot) Date - Tuesday 3rd June at 6pm meetup.com/tech-leadershi…

🎉 We're thrilled to announce our #DevConf2025 Cape Town community partners: @awscommza, BSides Cape Town, Investec Dev, @cptmsdug, @TechLeadershipX, @UmuziOrg, and @virtualJUG! Together, we're strengthening the developer ecosystem in the Mother City. 🙌 #CommunityMatters

🚀 Next Tech Leadership Meetup 🎙️ Leadership Against The Grain with Charlene Cooke meetup.com/tech-leadershi…

Crafting Effective Individual KPIs for Software Engineers Across Experience Levels and Generations @moochdt003/crafting-effective-individual-kpis-for-software-engineers-across-experience-levels-and-generations-e49fc7ee35ba" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@moochdt003/cr…

Join us for our next in-person Tech Leadership Meetup 🎙️ Topic - Navigating the Chasm: from Contributing to Coordinating, while staying Connected Speaker - Brian van Vuuren meetup.com/tech-leadershi…

Do We Need Unit Tests Anymore? petrikainulainen.net/programming/te…

6 reasons why the senior leadership doesn't take you seriously zaidesanton.substack.com/p/6-reasons-wh…

How To Fix Broken Teams staysaasy.com/management/202…

Building effective agents anthropic.com/research/build…

Unintended Consequences The perils of poorly designed metrics and incentives mikefisher.substack.com/p/unintended-c…

Twenty Tiny Leadership Lessons subbu.org/articles/2024/…

7 uncommon opinions after 10 years of product management @talraviv/7-uncommon-opinions-after-10-years-of-product-management-b3b5e69c255e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@talraviv/7-un…

Tying Engineering Metrics to Business Metrics icchasethi.medium.com/tying-engineer…

Building A Strong Ownership Culture in A Team candost.blog/strong-ownersh…

Managing Impostor Syndrome as a New Engineering Manager peterszasz.com/managing-impos…