
Latest
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Build psychological safety in a world of layoffs
How engineering leaders can build trust, stability, and innovation in an era of tech layoffs and uncertainty.
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Build an async culture that actually sticks
Mastering the balance between async and sync can lead to smarter communication habits and deeper engineering focus.
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AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink
Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.
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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
Cooking up a culture of continuous learning
Continuous learning is an important part of building a collaborative culture.
Build a productive code review culture
Code reviews can be tense and stressful if done incorrectly. Avoid bikeshedding and set good cultural standards with these nine simple steps.
Trust is the ultimate driver of engineering excellence
How can you improve the level of trust in your teams to bolster performance and encourage an inclusive culture.

London • June 16 & 17, 2025
Speakers Gergely Orosz, Camille Fournier
and Lara Hogan confirmed
Essential reading

How to build an intentional culture
Don’t leave your culture up to chance. Curate your principles and values intentionally to build high-performing, harmonious teams.
On our Culture playlist

Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.

Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams

From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.

How to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.

Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams
How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?


The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team
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Encouraging healthy conflict in a remote world
Arguing virtually lacks resolution. Here’s what we can do about it.
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Is fear stopping your engineering team from achieving its goals?
How to help engineers overcome their fear of failure
Top Culture videos
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Creating a user-focused engineering team
Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.
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The tools of culture change
In this talk Jason will cover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to culture change, and give you the tools you need to get the best out of your team.
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Calling out a terrible on call system
Molly Struve knew the system had to change if we wanted to continue growing and not lose our developer talent, but the question was how?
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Simplify your postmortems and focus on scaling
Ricardo Aravena gives us a better understanding of how to run effective postmortems consistently to mature DevOps in the organization.
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Harassers are nice to me
Sarah Milstein looks at techniques for surfacing and addressing bad behaviour in the workplace.
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Equipping your team to support junior developers
Aisha Blake discusses actionable steps for building junior-inclusive practices through active reflection, sustainable processes, and a focus on empathetic communication.
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Eliminating hero culture in software engineering teams
Infrastructure Program Manager at Google Brianna McCullough will discuss what common pitfalls to avoid when scaling your team at
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Fostering psychological safety in distributed teams
Taylor Poindexter asks how can you do your best to ensure your team has psychological safety and the proper processes to set yourselves up for success in a remote-first world.