Latest
-
6 DevEx strategies to improve business results
Key takeaways from our recent panel discussion on rethinking developer experience
-
The problem with shadow development
Your dev team hates Jira and will bend over backwards to get around using it. Big problem or smart solution?
-
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.
-
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.
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
Emma Bostian, Bruce Wang and James Stanier 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 conference for engineering leaders shaping the future of software
Berlin • November 3 & 4, 2025
More about Culture
-
Being an effective remote employee
A hybrid environment comes with peaks and valleys. You may be working remotely, but not everyone else is, and that can be tricky.
-
Here’s why you shouldn’t treat employee mental health as a mental health problem
Simply trying to tackle the issue as it happens is not a sustainable solution, says new research.
-
Using leave to cultivate autonomy in your team
What if the key to better managerial presence was absence?
-
How to mix junior and senior engineers on a team
One of the most important parts of the job of an engineering leader is assembling a team of developers that can work together in the most efficient way possible.
-
How to spot and close capability gaps
Putting together the right engineering team is difficult, but with the current hiring climate, it’s harder than ever to identify and fill capability gaps.
-
Growing an experiment-driven quality culture
Learn about the actionable steps you can take to achieve an outstanding quality culture via experimentation.
-
Why motivation and self-efficacy drives thriving software teams
Don’t overlook the importance of self-efficacy and sustaining motivation through challenges as qualities of thriving software development teams.
-
Building a more effective DevSecOps culture
Many of the old walls have come down between developers, operations, and security professionals, but there are still some steps you can take to build a truly effective culture.
Top Culture videos
-
Creating the story of your culture
This talk will outline what are the essential facets of building your culture and how you ensure diversity, equity, and belonging go hand and hand.
-
Shopify’s remote working toolbox
This talk presents Shopify’s remote working toolbox, which is a collection of learnings, best practices and ideas for other leaders that are wishing to work and attract talent globally, but must fundamentally shift their culture to do so.
-
A lean DevOps approach to learning & development
In this talk Sorrel will explain the rationale behind our approach to L&D and show you how it is operated in practice.
-
On call does not have to suck
In this talk, Charity discusses the idea that being on call is a burden when in fact being on call can be a great time to unleash your curiosity, learn new skills, and develop/refine your technical judgment.
-
Bridging the Dev-Sec divide: Three tips for agile developers
In this session, Luisa will show you three proven steps that you can apply in your own teams to not only build from scratch but also grow a DevSec culture in your tech organization.
-
Transitioning from synchronous to asynchronous (and somewhere between)
Michael will talk you through the reasons why he feels asynchronous (and sometimes synchronous) working is so beneficial, and how the culture of the team helped inspire other teams.
-
Understanding Time Systems Creates Successful Engineering Teams
This talk will explain how different cultures and the processes and tools we use at work relate to time, and finally how to take advantage of the strengths in each to build a better team.
-
Organizational Change Through The Power Of Why – DevSecOps Enablement
In this talk you will learn how to communicate and educate your teams on security approaches and best practices.