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
More about Culture
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In partnership with X-Team
Cultivating a culture of learning
Establishing a genuine learning culture takes time and attention, from all levels of the organization.
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Ask Mathias: How do I influence my product peer?
Influencing people is a hard game – particularly if it’s a peer who’s working style doesn’t mesh well with yours. Here’s some things to try.
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Can we cure imposter syndrome in tech?
After years of leaning in, imposter syndrome is still prevalent amongst women in tech. Can it be eradicated?
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5 takeaways from running 50 postmortems
Etsy’s postmortem culture is renowned for all the right reasons. Learn how to incorporate better practices into your postmortem meetings.
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How to set boundaries and stop people pleasing at work
Whether you’re starting to understand your people-pleasing tendencies or already well into your journey, here are some tips.
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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.
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How to build trust as a new engineering manager
Being the new kid on the block is daunting. It can take a while to finally earn your team’s trust but it’s rewarding all the same.
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Diversity and inclusion strategies that go beyond hiring
DEI strategies aren’t exclusively reserved for hiring cycles. Orgs should be going beyond that to retain diverse talent.
Top Culture videos
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Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture
This talk will focus on how senior engineering leaders can build and promote a strong organizational culture.
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Finding your path to vision and mission
Nicole Tibaldi, a Senior Engineering Manager at The New York Times, walks through the steps required to understand your goals for having a clear team vision and mission, and using that to empower engineers to make decisions.
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Creating alignment across a project lifecycle
As engineering managers, it’s normal to reach the end of the workday and feel like we’ve done a million things, without really gaining alignment across the project lifecycle.
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When the movie isn’t like the book: Failure modes in strategic alignment
If you’ve ever come to the humbling realization that you’re not exactly sure how your team fits into the overall company strategy, you’re not alone and you’re not a bad manager. In this talk, Maggie Litton unpacks why it’s sometimes hard to understand your company’s strategy and how your team fits into it.
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Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager
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Librarian’s guide to documentation
Kaitlyn Tierney wants you to learn how to leverage librarian skills to create and maintain internal documentation that works for you. Improve technical decision making by fostering a culture of documentation excellence and inspiring clear, effective written communication with a few simple practices.
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Building for the underserved, solving for all
Serah Njambi Kiburu will remind us about the levels and weight of responsibility we carry as builders and leads in tech, zero in on the need for prioritising people-centric approaches in the design and development decisions we make everyday and implore us to move beyond only employing best practices in our work.
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Engineering, everywhere, all at once: rethinking value as an engineering leader
Christian Wong looks at how applying some simple techniques – adapted from product discovery – we can identify potential areas of opportunity, position ourselves to act with more intent in our collegial relationships, and then engage in a way that allows us to build the knowledge and context we need.