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Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era
A practical framework to help engineering leaders recognize burnout early, rebalance demands, and recover while staying effective and healthy.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
The pace of change keeps accelerating. See what other leaders are doing about it, at LDX3 New York.
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Engineering Management playlist
It’s time to pay off your management debt
Explore management debt’s impact on organizations, uncovering inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Learn actionable strategies to identify, track, and eliminate management debt for sustainable growth.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Managing authentically across levels
Learn how to manage engineers at all levels with practical tips for adapting your style to support growth and foster a thriving, high-performing engineering team.
Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback
Discover strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust and openness. Learn science-backed techniques to make feedback constructive, approachable, and growth-focused, helping teams unlock their full potential.
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
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Training your interviewers to make a great first impression
Hiring in big tech may have slowed, but the value of making a good first impression has never changed.
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Rethinking your engineer hiring strategy in 2024
Tech hiring is going through an intense period of change, how do you adapt?
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The two engineering archetypes that drive performance
The guru and the maven can help raise the bar for an entire engineering team faster than hiring experts or learning from the best.
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Optimize tech hiring for a meaningful candidate experience
In the current economic environment, companies are reevaluating hiring strategies. This process creates an opportunity to implement best practices that make hiring more efficient, fair, and enjoyable for candidates.
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Generative AI is changing how computer science is taught
From ChatGPT to GitHub Copilot, AI is becoming part of the software developer toolbelt. What does that mean for how we teach computer science students?
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3 ways to make your team’s work more visible
James Stanier has some tools and techniques to better communicate the goings-on of your team to the wider business, and boost collaboration in the process.
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Tech hiring: Breaking the cycle of pedigree bias
Current hiring processes are rife with pedigree bias — systems that assess someone not on what they can do, but where they’ve previously studied or worked.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Tips for part-time project managers
In this talk, John will walk you through his tips and tools to manage projects and people successfully and effectively.
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Integrating an expert solo developer into a development team
Theresa Robinson discusses best practices for how to ensure integrating a solo developer is successful and results in a cohesive, high-performing team.
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Getting to know your team’s strengths and weaknesses
How can engineering leaders understand more about what makes their reports happy, and leverage their strengths to build a happy and productive team?
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Traps when spotting and growing new managers
In this talk, Javier discusses how the success of a manager depends on two things: spotting skillset fit and cultivating habitat fit.
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Building effective engineering teams; lessons from 10 years at Google
In this talk, Addy shares the insights that help grow people into effective individual engineers.
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Critical components of successful delegation
This talk presents techniques to help you be prepared to delegate, sponsor, and coach your team in a way that empowers them to grow their careers and makes your load manageable.
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Effective methods for developing peers and levelling up your mentorship skills
Coaching and mentoring play a crucial role in developing your peers’ potential
