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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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
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Ask Maria: How to stop team burnout after a subject expert quits
What happens when the one person everyone went to for answers leaves? Our community columnist Maria Ntalla tells us more on the matter.
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In partnership with Multiverse
Drive continuous improvement without a dedicated developer experience team
Lessons learned from a developer experience wake up call.
Top Culture videos
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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
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Librarian’s guide to documentation
Kaitlyn Tierney wants you to learn how to leverage librarian skills to create and maintain internal documentation that works for you. Improve technical decision making by fostering a culture of documentation excellence and inspiring clear, effective written communication with a few simple practices.
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Building for the underserved, solving for all
Serah Njambi Kiburu will remind us about the levels and weight of responsibility we carry as builders and leads in tech, zero in on the need for prioritising people-centric approaches in the design and development decisions we make everyday and implore us to move beyond only employing best practices in our work.
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Engineering, everywhere, all at once: rethinking value as an engineering leader
Christian Wong looks at how applying some simple techniques – adapted from product discovery – we can identify potential areas of opportunity, position ourselves to act with more intent in our collegial relationships, and then engage in a way that allows us to build the knowledge and context we need.
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Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
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Purpose: Glue for Talent
Talent today seeks higher purpose and meaning in their work. Successful businesses hear this and respond.
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Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark
Inclusion is the foundation of creating a level playing field for employees with all backgrounds to be heard, to be challenged, and to have an impact.
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What’s fair?
How do people leaders impact the scales of fairness when they’re trying to be effective?