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Be the best ally to your business development team
As a staff+ engineer, being the bridge between engineering and the business development team isn’t always straightforward.
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Turn workplace conflict into collaboration
Don’t let disagreements divide teams. Employ better communication tactics and understanding to turn conflict into opportunity.
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Executive communication tactics that work for all audiences
The way you communicate with executives – clear, direct, and to the point – should be the standard for all communication.
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Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.
Editor’s picks
A tech lead’s guide to effective communication
Tips for improving your communication skills as a tech lead
A leader’s guide to active and reflective listening
Active listening is often overlooked in the realm of communication. Here are some tactics to improve how you listen to others.
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
Speakers Gergely Orosz, Camille Fournier
and Lara Hogan confirmed
Essential reading
Writing matters: How to improve your written communication skills
Mastering the art of writing as an engineering leader
On our Communication playlist
Influential storytelling
Brianna McCullough talks about how to structure compelling stories that lead to alignment, buy-in and most importantly belief from our stakeholders, partners, and more importantly our teams.
How to complain positively
Josh Goldberg, a serial complainer with a catchy smile, will walk you through the steps he takes to make sure his complaining is heard and felt without causing pain.
Influencing without management authority as a senior individual contributor
Effectively communicating technical expertise.
Communicating change: leading through the change curve
How to tailor your communications based on how your employees are experiencing and reacting to the change.
Help your engineering, product and security teams get on the same page
How can teams find alignment among competing priorities?
The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
More about Communication
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A guide for announcing change to your organization
Here are the things you need to consider when planning a big announcement to your organization. Template included!
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Ask Maria: How do I get my tech lead to communicate effectively?
Tech leads can be technically brilliant, but this doesn’t mean there can’t be room for improvement in other areas.
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4 strategies for presenting to busy executives
Presenting to executives shouldn’t be a task taken lightly. Here is how engineering director Dan Na goes about doing it.
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How to communicate with an executive audience
How can you make sure that you’re communicating with executives as efficiently as possible? David Kiger has a few tips.
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How to bridge the communication gap
From knowing how to deliver a presentation to choosing the right Slack channels, make sure your communication style is airtight.
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4 strategies for effectively managing stakeholders
With so many roles involved in projects, it can be difficult to keep them all happy. Here’s some tips on how you can start.
Top Communication videos
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Coaching autism traits in tech
In this talk, Dennie Declercq explains how autism works, what the traits are and how you can coach people with autism in tech.
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The Three C’s of Company-Wide Collaboration
Nick Means digs into the three crucial things every company can holistically invest in to build an environment that fosters healthy collaboration across their entire organization.
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Team design is system design
In this presentation, Michael Newman, VP of Engineering at CodeSignal will explore Conway’s Law and how the Inverse Conway Maneuver can be used to design your organization’s communication structure to reflect the desired system structure.
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Cultural post mortems: an approach to learning and recovering when your people systems fail
Winna Bridgewater will share how they planned and executed recovery work. Our aim is to inspire you to consider a systems approach when something with your team goes wrong, and we’ll provide a template for what we think worked well.
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Shifting the mindset of delegation – Your secret weapon to leadership at scale
Marta Jasinska gives you some tools that will help you understand the challenges ahead and techniques I developed over years for moving past them.
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Influential storytelling
Brianna McCullough talks about how to structure compelling stories that lead to alignment, buy-in and most importantly belief from our stakeholders, partners, and more importantly our teams.
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Building healthier mission-focused organizations
Randall Koutnik talks about the three main categories of communication — pathological, bureaucratic and generative — and the important role they each play in a company’s success and failure.
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Technical documentation – how can I write them better and why should I care?
In this talk, Hila will show you a structured way to write a technical doc, without being a technical writer – So everyone can do it to their best ability.