🤖 LDX3 Director+ workshop: Beyond the hype with AI tools.


Last month I was back at LDX3 (LeadDev) in London running a second Director+ workshop. This time it was on another topic I’m living and breathing in my day job right now:

How do you get beyond the hype of AI, and adopt and measure AI tools safely in regulated, high-velocity engineering teams?

I put this workshop together to also crowdsource some ideas from other leaders in the industry, and personally I learnt lots from running the session. If you were there on the day, thank you so much for your willingness to engage and share your experience 🙏

In the workshop we explored two key questions:

  1. How do you design guardrails that catch AI debt, without killing velocity and properly considering regulation?
  2. How do you measure real Return on Investment (ROI) beyond lines of code and PR throughput?

Everything I covered was based on my own personal experience, and real problems I’m either solving (or have solved!) in my day-to-day role.


If you’d like me to run a version of this session for your organisation, get in touch through the links on my about page. I run it as a 90 minute interactive workshop that leaves all participants with follow-on actions and commitments, rather than just generate more noise for your teams!

The slides I used in the workshop are available on Github.