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How to stay technical as a software engineering manager
Four ways to maintain technical proficiency.
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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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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
Cut through the hype.
Find what works 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
More about Engineering Management
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Ask Mathias: How can I increase velocity when I’m already at full speed?
My team and I are already going as fast as we can. I can’t see how we have the capacity to increase velocity. Can you help?
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How to build trust in your team
Trust is often confused with getting along, which can impede team progress and personal career growth. Here’s how you can introduce trust into your teams successfully.
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How to maintain team morale during a downturn
Learning to lead despite feeling like you have no control of your surroundings can help you upgrade your management style.
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Using rhetorical situations to improve internal communication
There’s lots of advice peddled out there around improving communication skills, but crafting effective communication using the framework of the rhetorical situation should be your starting point.
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How to bring about positive cultural change in your team
Looking to influence your team culture? Try this framework.
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The 4 pillars of empathetic leadership
Empathy is the foundation of engineering leadership culture these days, but what exactly makes an empathetic leader?
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Why resisting return-to-office mandates is futile
Managers are being tasked with enforcing unpopular RTO mandates, while their teams try to keep a grip on their newfound autonomy. Is resistance futile?
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Improve team performance by providing business context
Clarifying how important your team is for the company’s mission could just be the thing to help unleash their full potential.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
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Engineering your feedback: A (quick) guide to success
As managers and leaders, giving effective feedback is crucial in order to help engineers on our teams grow and thrive in their profession. In this talk, I’ll share 3 golden rules when it comes to providing feedback that is effective.
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Organizational resilience
André Kenji Horie discusses how Duolingo thinks about resilience in the workplace, the tools provided to managers to help them develop their own resilience, as well as their direct reports, lessons learned and pitfalls avoided.
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Maximizing your impact when context-switching
Maude Lemaire spent the last few years trialing a few different ways to sustainably maximize this time by balancing productivity with a bit of mindfulness. Come learn from her (many) mistakes, and hopefully we can all feel a bit less like a Dalí painting.
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Driving positive change through performance improvement plans
Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia describes an approach to PIPs in which the manager helps to set the employee up for success.
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Creating inclusive career ladders
Sally Lait will cover some common pitfalls, and will go through a practical set of prompts to help you make sure your career ladder can work well for everyone.
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Parents who code: How to welcome your developers back after parental leave
Sinead Cummings is going to talk through how you, as Development Leaders, can provide visibility of key decisions to those who have been on leave, ensure they aren’t overlooked during their period of absence and how you can prevent cognitive overload when they return, guaranteeing your best and brightest return feeling empowered, valued, and ready to code.
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Keeping your team health after a layoff
Leandro Cesar Silva will discuss how we can support and care for the team and then move forward, based on what I experienced at Loggi, where it was possible to overcome in a healthy way.