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A founder’s 3 strategies for building successful product teams
Building a company from the ground up consists of understanding customer pain points and engineer autonomy.
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How to keep high performers engaged and growing
Managing high performers can be equal parts daunting and exciting. Using these four tips to help keep your reports engaged.
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Why AI is creating more demand for managers
New research suggests that the adoption of AI is adding layers to organizational hierarchies.
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Content sponsored by O’ReillyHelping your engineers find time to learn and upskill
Webinar recording: discover how to support your engineers to learn and practice new skills.
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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 16 & 17, 2025
A festival of engineering leadership
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
A festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
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Delegation 202: Finding the right people and setting them up for success
Who should you delegate your next task to?
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Managing unexpected work requests when your team is busy
How to handle disruptions to your team’s workflow
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Finding the right kind of opportunities for your sponsee
How to match your sponsee’s opportunities to their career goals
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Tips for part-time project managers
In this talk, John will walk you through his tips and tools to manage projects and people successfully and effectively.
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Integrating an expert solo developer into a development team
Theresa Robinson discusses best practices for how to ensure integrating a solo developer is successful and results in a cohesive, high-performing team.
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Getting to know your team’s strengths and weaknesses
How can engineering leaders understand more about what makes their reports happy, and leverage their strengths to build a happy and productive team?
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Traps when spotting and growing new managers
In this talk, Javier discusses how the success of a manager depends on two things: spotting skillset fit and cultivating habitat fit.
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Building effective engineering teams; lessons from 10 years at Google
In this talk, Addy shares the insights that help grow people into effective individual engineers.
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Critical components of successful delegation
This talk presents techniques to help you be prepared to delegate, sponsor, and coach your team in a way that empowers them to grow their careers and makes your load manageable.
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Effective methods for developing peers and levelling up your mentorship skills
Coaching and mentoring play a crucial role in developing your peers’ potential
