Latest
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Killing a project is every engineering leader’s hardest call
Sometimes you must kill a project before it kills momentum.
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The shadow culture: Why engineering principles fail under load
Why engineering principles collapse under pressure, and how redesigning systems makes the right behavior the easy default.
Editor’s picks
Cooking up a culture of continuous learning
Continuous learning is an important part of building a collaborative culture.
Build a productive code review culture
Code reviews can be tense and stressful if done incorrectly. Avoid bikeshedding and set good cultural standards with these nine simple steps.
Trust is the ultimate driver of engineering excellence
How can you improve the level of trust in your teams to bolster performance and encourage an inclusive culture.
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
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Essential reading
How to build an intentional culture
Don’t leave your culture up to chance. Curate your principles and values intentionally to build high-performing, harmonious teams.
On our Culture playlist
Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.
How to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.
Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams
How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
More about Culture
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Managing challenging people
Challenging team members are common, but managing them is anything but straightforward.
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Being an effective remote employee
A hybrid environment comes with peaks and valleys. You may be working remotely, but not everyone else is, and that can be tricky.
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Here’s why you shouldn’t treat employee mental health as a mental health problem
Simply trying to tackle the issue as it happens is not a sustainable solution, says new research.
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Using leave to cultivate autonomy in your team
What if the key to better managerial presence was absence?
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How to mix junior and senior engineers on a team
One of the most important parts of the job of an engineering leader is assembling a team of developers that can work together in the most efficient way possible.
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How to spot and close capability gaps
Putting together the right engineering team is difficult, but with the current hiring climate, it’s harder than ever to identify and fill capability gaps.
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Growing an experiment-driven quality culture
Learn about the actionable steps you can take to achieve an outstanding quality culture via experimentation.
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Why motivation and self-efficacy drives thriving software teams
Don’t overlook the importance of self-efficacy and sustaining motivation through challenges as qualities of thriving software development teams.
Top Culture videos
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Building happy and effective data teams
Where do you start when building a data team, and how can you keep them motivated?
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Capability, Vulnerability, Fallibility, and Flexibility: A Permission System for Trust
Anjuan Simmons at LeadDev Together 2022
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Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams: Heidi Helfand in conversation
How can you manage the effects of changes occurring within your team?
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Examples are hard: Prioritizing developer experience
Understand how to always put your developers’ experience first
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Great engineers are made by great engineering teams
Learn how to build teams that nurture great engineers.
