Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Management

Management

Becoming a better engineering manager

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.

Getting operational visibility from afar without micromanaging

How to reserve engineering capacity and deliver projects on time

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.

What is an engineering manager? Taking the step up

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

Content sponsored by incident.io

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

festival of engineering leadership

London • June 16 & 17, 2025

Top Engineering Management Videos

  • Laying the foundations for remote success

    Adapting to the new normal in engineering

  • How 1:1s can affect your engineering team’s culture

    1:1s, or intentional time set aside for managers and their direct reports, are magical: they’re where you learn what “sparks joy” for your staffer and where they’re secretly flagging.

  • Transitioning to a lead dev

    The transition from a developer to a Lead Developer can be a rocky one. Yesterday, you were working as a developer and today, suddenly, you find yourself in the role of the Lead Developer.

  • Avoiding common mistakes as a new engineering manager

    In this talk we’ll walk through a hypothetical worst case scenario for a new manager and then walk through specifics on how you can avoid the Spiral.

  • Creating effective engineering internships

    This talk is based on a series of experiences I had working with my interns, sharing their experiences on other internships and improving my methods so we could take most of our 12 weeks together.

  • How to run awesome tech internships!

    The tech industry has a lot of hiring to do. According to the Tech City 2017 report, “the digital sector is creating jobs 2X faster than the non-digital sector”. At the same time, the tech industry is lacking ways of helping those in underrepresented groups get their first tech role. A possible solution to both of these issues? More internships!

  • Supporting the next generation of developers

    Life as a “junior” developer can be intense, overwhelming, but rewarding. How can juniors move on to the next level?

  • Measuring your value as a tech lead

    WARNING: Making the transition from developer to lead is not without risks. Side effects include (but are not limited to): diminished sense of purpose, constant lingering doubt and feelings of inadequacy. These symptoms may disappear over time. If not, consult a professional or watch this talk.