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Metrics don’t tell the whole story
Metrics can clue you in on issues proliferating in your systems, but customers’ anecdotal feedback can help you catch unknown unknowns.
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The magic of crisis
Discover how Staff+ engineers can use moments of crisis to drive lasting technical change and strengthen organizational systems.
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.
Deadline: January 4, 2026
Call for Proposals for London 2026 is open!
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
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Culture
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In partnership with YLD
Tackling some DevOps antipatterns
And the case for adopting platform engineering and SRE practices to mitigate against them.
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Beware of founder mode
Everyone’s talking about founder mode, but what impact will this idea have on software engineers?
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How “you build it, you run it” improves team performance
Whether it’s recruiting new talent, team accountability, or streamlining processes, “you build it, you run it” is the philosophy for you.
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How to get the most out of staff+ engineers
Staff+ engineers are often overlooked despite their wealth of knowledge and business understanding. How can we stop the cycle?
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Encouraging a passion for productivity
In this edition of DirectorPlus, Neha Batra, VP of Engineering at GitHub, explains how she creates a culture of productivity.
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Building better on-call routines for engineering teams
Mentions of on-call are usually met with grumbles.
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Why you don’t have to wait for the California ‘right to disconnect’ law
Fighting back against an always-on working culture
Top Culture videos
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Challenges in transforming a multicultural local-only company to a remote-first
Felipe Furlan discusses the most significant challenges and the strategies we use to overcome them. I will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy.
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Go with the flow: Embracing and supporting menstrual needs in tech
Amy Roberts-Hoad spotlights the often-underestimated influence of menstruation on tech teams. Through personal anecdotes, she offers actionable insights on fostering conversations around this topic, paving the way for both inclusivity and heightened productivity.
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What does effective collaboration look like for busy engineering teams?
How can newly restructured and leaner teams collaborate effectively?
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Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture
This talk will focus on how senior engineering leaders can build and promote a strong organizational culture.
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Finding your path to vision and mission
Nicole Tibaldi, a Senior Engineering Manager at The New York Times, walks through the steps required to understand your goals for having a clear team vision and mission, and using that to empower engineers to make decisions.
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Creating alignment across a project lifecycle
As engineering managers, it’s normal to reach the end of the workday and feel like we’ve done a million things, without really gaining alignment across the project lifecycle.
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When the movie isn’t like the book: Failure modes in strategic alignment
If you’ve ever come to the humbling realization that you’re not exactly sure how your team fits into the overall company strategy, you’re not alone and you’re not a bad manager. In this talk, Maggie Litton unpacks why it’s sometimes hard to understand your company’s strategy and how your team fits into it.
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Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager