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4 steps to speed up code reviews
The culture changes you need to make to stop code reviews from demoralizing teams.
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Google is cracking down on remote work
Google follows other tech giants and doubles down to add restrictions on its “Work from Anywhere” (WFA) policy.
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Crafting the perfect LeadDev talk submission
Crafting the best version of your talk proposal for the LeadDev stage with the help of ChatGPT.
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The creative technologist
Learn how to build a creative practice to help you become a more creative leader.
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.

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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?

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Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company
Six steps towards sustained innovation
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How Karat puts listening to customers at the heart of marketing
Understanding your customers’ pain is the first step to knowing how to help them.
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Mission Possible: how mission-based teams can improve performance and workplace culture
The journey to a more collaborative culture
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Cultivating an intentional engineering culture
What can your organization collectively do to reach its goals?
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Finding your acorn: How to drive the change you want as an engineering leader
Growing your idea into a successful initiative
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Fostering autonomy and trust to lead high-performing teams
How to fuel individual motivation, team velocity, and organization scale through your culture
Top Culture videos
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Managing the burnout burndown
As engineering managers, we’re used to managing the Sprint Burndown chart. Even in non-agile projects, the idea still applies. Over time, the amount of work that remains to be done should go down, and good engineering managers carefully guide the team towards this goal.