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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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Maintain team performance during unexpected change
You’ll have to experience change management at least once in your career. Make sure your teams can maintain performance through it all.
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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?
Top Engineering Management Videos
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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
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In partnership with SwarmiaMastering the art of project prioritization
How do you decide which projects to prioritize, when everything seems urgent?
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In partnership with incident.ioReducing the burden of incident response on your teams
Unlock system reliability through a culture of shared responsibility and collaboration
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In partnership with JellyfishStrategies for leaders when planning the annual roadmap
What does a good yearly roadmap look like?
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How I tackled the fear of metrics to level up conversations with my ICs
Jasmine Oliveira discusses how she worked with her ICs to develop a space where the use of metrics felt less intimidating and more like a valuable tool for growth.
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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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How do you effectively manage senior ICs?
What does a good manager and direct report relationship look like for ICs?