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How to boost your management impact with AI tools
Developers got their AI moment. It is time engineering managers had theirs too.
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Why did Microsoft just fire employee protesters?
Microsoft fired four employees who protested its alleged ties to the Israeli military.
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How to rebuild trust after layoffs
Layoffs happen, it’s how you deal with them as a leader that matters.
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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.
Deadline: January 4, 2026
Call for Proposals for London 2026 is open!
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 of engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Amazon’s Werner Vogels on the 7 laws of cost-effective engineering
2023 was rife with layoffs against a backdrop of tough economic circumstances for many. What does Amazon’s Werner Vogels think?
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Ask Mathias: How can I increase velocity when I’m already at full speed?
My team and I are already going as fast as we can. I can’t see how we have the capacity to increase velocity. Can you help?
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How to build trust in your team
Trust is often confused with getting along, which can impede team progress and personal career growth. Here’s how you can introduce trust into your teams successfully.
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How to maintain team morale during a downturn
Learning to lead despite feeling like you have no control of your surroundings can help you upgrade your management style.
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Using rhetorical situations to improve internal communication
There’s lots of advice peddled out there around improving communication skills, but crafting effective communication using the framework of the rhetorical situation should be your starting point.
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How to bring about positive cultural change in your team
Looking to influence your team culture? Try this framework.
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The 4 pillars of empathetic leadership
Empathy is the foundation of engineering leadership culture these days, but what exactly makes an empathetic leader?
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Why resisting return-to-office mandates is futile
Managers are being tasked with enforcing unpopular RTO mandates, while their teams try to keep a grip on their newfound autonomy. Is resistance futile?
Top Engineering Management Videos
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In partnership with SwarmiaMastering the art of project prioritization
How do you decide which projects to prioritize, when everything seems urgent?
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In partnership with incident.ioReducing the burden of incident response on your teams
Unlock system reliability through a culture of shared responsibility and collaboration
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In partnership with JellyfishStrategies for leaders when planning the annual roadmap
What does a good yearly roadmap look like?
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How I tackled the fear of metrics to level up conversations with my ICs
Jasmine Oliveira discusses how she worked with her ICs to develop a space where the use of metrics felt less intimidating and more like a valuable tool for growth.
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Challenges in transforming a multicultural local-only company to a remote-first
Felipe Furlan discusses the most significant challenges and the strategies we use to overcome them. I will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy.
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How do you effectively manage senior ICs?
What does a good manager and direct report relationship look like for ICs?
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You will ship your org chart: understanding organization structure tradeoffs
Adam Berman talks about how your organization structure has a big impact on your workflows. Learn how to bolster your approach to drive more efficient product development.
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Sustaining Innovation with changing times: Adapting systems, teams, processes and yourself
This talk will look at two common themes – trust and adaptability – in systems, teams and process.