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Demand for engineering managers is surging in the agentic coding era
Just not necessarily to be managers…
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The uncomfortable middle: Growing as a Director in uncertain times
Grow as a leader of leaders through reorgs, role shifts, and team tensions in the messy middle of uncertainty.
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
Full LDX3 lineup is here 🙌
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
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Engineering Management
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Unlocking performance management for start-ups and scale-ups
Performance management is tricky terrain to navigate, especially when you’re in a start-up or scale-up. Here are some frameworks to help.
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How to reserve engineering capacity and deliver projects on time
When you’re project planning as a manager, it’s good to make sure you reserve some of your engineers’ capacity ahead of time.
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Can you lead a struggling team to success?
Taking a leadership position of a struggling team isn’t exactly a smooth ride. With ups and downs, it can be difficult to see a positive end.
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How to handle difficult conversations as a leader
Difficult conversations are never anyone’s favorite pastime. For many, it can be an anxiety-inducing trip…but it doesn’t have to be.
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How to plan team reorganizations
As an engineering leader, you’ll have to face team reorganizations at some point. Here is a tried-and-true method from Yelp’s David Kiger.
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Strategies for an efficient performance review cycle
Performance review cycles are long and arduous. Here are some strategies you can adopt to stay on top of it all.
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How to make hard choices as an engineering leader
A day in the life of an engineering leader is riddled with hard choices. How can you choose the optimal option for your org?
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How to better budget your time using the $10 method
Find yourself with a plate full of tasks and no time to complete them all? Maybe the $10 method is just the thing for you.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
Explore strategies to enhance self-awareness as a manager, unlock genuine feedback, and avoid decision-making traps that hinder your team’s performance and morale.
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Influencing Through Getting Your Carrots In a Row
In this talk, I will go through some of the common incentives and motivators as well as real examples that I’ve encountered.
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Growing engineering managers: Breaking down the monolith
This talk will delve into the intricacies of being an effective engineering manager by dissecting the multifaceted role into distinct components. Chiranjiv will explore technical excellence, people management, and delivery, breaking down each aspect into manageable units that can be employed for evaluation and strategic planning.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
Do you feel like you’re constantly surrounded by managers who exhibit toxic behaviours and “shred their team’s confidence” (actual quote)? Diverse and inclusive policies may not be enough to stop these individuals from causing harm.
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How to set goals with people who don’t want to set goals
Setting goals does not come easy to everyone.
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From overload to oasis: Creating more time for the cool stuff
Tired of being overloaded with monotonous tasks? Craving more time for the ‘cool stuff’? You’re not alone.
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Demystifying neurodiversity in tech with nostalgic video games
What happens when great minds DON’T think alike?
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Leading from the middle: Scott Mautz in conversation
Get a blueprint for developing the skills necessary for managing from the middle