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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
More about Culture
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How to set up an asynchronous work environment
Remote working environments can be extraordinarily rewarding and advantageous for certain companies. Here’s how you can start your journey.
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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.
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Become a stronger leader for your cross-cultural team
Having members of your team based all around the world requires you to have a flexible mindset and communication style.
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In partnership with YLD
Tackling some DevOps antipatterns
And the case for adopting platform engineering and SRE practices to mitigate against them.
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Beware of founder mode
Everyone’s talking about founder mode, but what impact will this idea have on software engineers?
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How “you build it, you run it” improves team performance
Whether it’s recruiting new talent, team accountability, or streamlining processes, “you build it, you run it” is the philosophy for you.
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How to get the most out of staff+ engineers
Staff+ engineers are often overlooked despite their wealth of knowledge and business understanding. How can we stop the cycle?
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Encouraging a passion for productivity
In this edition of DirectorPlus, Neha Batra, VP of Engineering at GitHub, explains how she creates a culture of productivity.
Top Culture videos
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Idea to Innovation
Join me as we embark on a journey to dissect the anatomy of innovation, uncover strategies to unlock the full potential of ideas, and transform them into impactful realities. Let’s build a strong culture of innovation, and make sure that it is not just a buzzword but a tangible outcome.
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Deming’s Wisdom for Staff+ Engineers: A Modern Take on Timeless Principles
In this talk, we’ll delve into how Staff+ Engineers can embody Deming’s timeless wisdom to enhance quality, productivity, and both employee and customer satisfaction within the modern engineering landscape.
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The Post Office Scandal: what we can learn from its process and human failures
The story of the Post Office scandal not only serves as a warning about tech failure, but also as a reminder of the real-world significance of the software we build.
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Managing across timezones; A retrospective
In 2020, Cloudflare moved from being an in office company to 100% remote. This changed the way we work completely.
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Build great engineering teams and have a positive social impact
On the back of working in the tech industry developing great products in highly competitive markets, how can we make society better? Germán and Seraphine will share the story of skills and talent meeting diversity and social impact.
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Building for the new developer
So we’ve bought a Copilot license for our teams….AI in software solved, right?!
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Being a force for cultural change in your organization
Your responsibility to work toward this change also increases dramatically with your privilege. Nicole talks through some concrete ways to magnify the change you effect in your work while doing things you already do anyway.
