Latest
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Demand for engineering managers is surging in the agentic coding era
Just not necessarily to be managers…
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The uncomfortable middle: Growing as a Director in uncertain times
Grow as a leader of leaders through reorgs, role shifts, and team tensions in the messy middle of uncertainty.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Engineering Management playlist
It’s time to pay off your management debt
Explore management debt’s impact on organizations, uncovering inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Learn actionable strategies to identify, track, and eliminate management debt for sustainable growth.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Managing authentically across levels
Learn how to manage engineers at all levels with practical tips for adapting your style to support growth and foster a thriving, high-performing engineering team.
Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback
Discover strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust and openness. Learn science-backed techniques to make feedback constructive, approachable, and growth-focused, helping teams unlock their full potential.
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Engineering Management
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Validating soft skills with hard data
Pair these essential people skills with your technical expertise and hard data to run elite engineering teams.
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Building remote relationships for more productive teams
Since the pandemic, the rate of remote working teams has shot up, despite efforts from CEOs to get people to return to an in-office environment.
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Generative AI is already impacting tech hiring
Two new reports reveal that AI skills are in high demand – but the human touch is needed more than ever.
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Boosting team performance as a tech lead
Being parachuted into an inexperienced team can be a great opportunity for you to share your expertise and help individuals upskill.
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Driving efficiency with lean engineering teams
How to drive pace and build highly effective engineering teams when you can’t expand the headcount.
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Optimize hiring for speed and scale to outpace the competition
The hiring landscape has changed dramatically this year, but moving fast can create a huge competitive advantage when vying for top software engineering talent.
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Empathetic leadership for inclusive success
Adopting and promoting an empathetic approach to leadership can ensure team and company-wide success.
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Training your interviewers to make a great first impression
Hiring in big tech may have slowed, but the value of making a good first impression has never changed.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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So you want to identify and nurture high performers?
Providing growth opportunities for the engineers in your team goes a long way toward motivating and retaining talent.
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Alignment and clarity on promotions
As a manager, your role is to bring alignment and clarity to promotions
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The impact of impact on motivation
Motivation is key, but how do you and your team stay connected to that motivation in the day-to-day?
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Understanding reorgs: What they are, why they happen, and how to navigate them
Strategy pivots, hiring freezes, and even layoffs are all leading to large reorganizations within remaining teams.
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Evolving your core management skills: From IC to VP
This talk, will go through the core skills any leader needs evolve, as you go first from directly building software, to building teams that build software, to building leaders that build teams that build software.
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Leveling-up your leadership team
In this talk IBK will share how you, as a leader, can take a topic and work on it with your team. IBK will also share an example topic and the format that he shared with senior leaders at Shopify.
