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Software engineering leaders need a shopkeeper mentality
Bridge the gap between daily tasks and strategic oversight.
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Your career isn’t stuck – you’re playing by the wrong rules
Discover what true inclusion means by exploring practical ways to support neurodivergent colleagues and create genuinely diverse teams.
Editor’s picks
Engineering leadership is not just about code
If you’re looking to move into an engineering leadership position, you’ll have to do more than brush up on code!
How to find and become a great engineering mentor
Mentoring is a great way to boost your career. Here’s everything you need to know about getting a mentor, and becoming one yourself.
How to navigate unexpected role changes
At one point or another, you may have to face an unexpected role change. It might not be what you want, but there are ways to make it work.
New York • September 15-16, 2026
Speakers Camille Fournier, Gergely Orosz and Will Larson confirmed 🙌
Essential reading
Learning to enjoy the career progression journey
Reaching a management position in the tech industry is hard work. It’s important to remember to enjoy the journey and celebrate victories big and small along the way.
On our Career development playlist
There and back again – A cautionary tale about entering middle management
Explore the realities of middle management through a journey of promotion, stress, and self-reflection, offering guidance on finding the right leadership path.
Unconventional paths in tech: Leveraging your strengths to find your place
n this talk, Mitra Raman will take a look at the many paths that engineers can take on their leadership journey.
Career vectors for technical leaders
Mix and match skills to become the best technical leader that you can be.
The path from Director to CTO: How to follow it, or how to mentor it
This talk is aimed at both aspiring Chief Technology Officers and those who are in a position to mentor future CTOs. Explore the journey from a Director of Engineering role to a CTO, focusing on the skills and experiences needed for this transition and how experienced leaders can guide others on this path.
Essential soft skills you need to succeed as an engineer
There is a big focus on technical expertise in software engineering – but soft skills are equally as important. Which ones are crucial to master and how can you do this?
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
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Becoming a force multiplier by influencing without seniority
You’re an engineer who’s got big ideas with team-wide potential – but there’s a limit to how much you can achieve by coding harder.
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Improve planning and ideation with divergent thinking
By questioning the foundations of our current systems and processes, divergent thinking can help us identify changes that substantially enhance productivity and effectiveness.
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What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.
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Why management debt is a company-wide issue
Technical debt has a cousin and it’s more harmful to your organization than you realize.
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Introducing new processes to your team
Using the example of how feature flagging was implemented on a team level, learn how to introduce new processes and navigate change management.
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3 ways to use generative AI for engineering management
There are a plethora of ways to use generative AI tools to streamline and improve on your non-coding, management tasks.
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A reality check on generative AI
How to implement AI into your developer workflows with realistic expectations.
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5 best practices for annual budget planning
Budget planning season is crucial for setting the following year’s strategic direction, the team’s top priorities, and where your team needs to invest in order to achieve business objectives.
Top Career development videos
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Characteristics of a modern tech lead
Over the last decade or so we have seen a shift towards “generalising specialists”, programmers who, as well as designing and building great software, can understand a business domain, design a user interface, participate in and automate some of the testing and deployment activities, and who are sometimes even responsible for the health and wellbeing of their own systems in production.
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Addressing Imposter Syndrome for engineering leaders
Impostor Syndrome is the feeling that you aren’t really qualified for the work you are doing and will be discovered as a fraud.
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Prioritising personal development as en engineering leader
What should I focus on to become a better leader and to better support my team? Where do I find the time to keep my technical skills relevant? How do I learn more about the business so I can understand the needs of the organisation better?
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Leadership Through the Underground Railroad
Software development has regularly borrowed processes and terminology from outside technology to improve how code gets to customers.
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Being a customer-focused engineering leader
Most software engineers don’t realize that an outage is more than keeping the TTR low (yes, TTR is very important); it’s also about managing the expectations of your customers.
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Do the Most Good
Mina shares reflections from the campaign trail and explores strategies to use your time and skills to affect social change.
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Storytelling patterns for engineering leaders
In most forms of entertainment, it all comes down to the story.
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Creating learning workshops for developers
Interactive workshops are the best way to engage teams and individuals and help everyone remember lessons learned.