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Building inclusive orgs
Building inclusive orgs
Managing distributed teams
Running remote teams
How can you maintain a high-performing team with a great culture when you're not in the same room? ...
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Running remote teams
Running remote teams
How team agreements promote high performance
8 mins
23 Mar 2023
Article
How team agreements promote high performance

Sarah
Milstein
Using workshops to align technical vision and team principles
5 mins
17 Mar 2023
Article
Using workshops to align technical vision and team principles

Anthony
Mayer
Embedding on a team as a Staff+ engineer
10 mins
12 Dec 2022
Article
Embedding on a team as a Staff+ engineer

Shweta
Bhandare
Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps
3 mins
05 Dec 2022
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by PLATFORM.SH
Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps

Chad
Carlson
Six things to consider when structuring engineering teams
8 mins
29 Nov 2022
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by HASHICORP
Six things to consider when structuring engineering teams

Jess
Ingrassellino

Tapan
Divekar
Examples are hard: Prioritizing developer experience
01 Apr 2022
Video
Examples are hard: Prioritizing developer experience

Chad
Carlson
How to lead your junior engineers to success
6 mins
09 Mar 2022
Article
How to lead your junior engineers to success

Ceora
Ford
How Twitter grew a single team into a thriving distributed community
14 mins
01 Mar 2022
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by TWITTER
How Twitter grew a single team into a thriving distributed community

Marina
Zhao

Charlie
Croom
Using coaching skills to grow compassion, empathy, and kindness
12 mins
16 Feb 2022
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by AUTOMATTIC
Using coaching skills to grow compassion, empathy, and kindness

Nik
Knight
Are we punishing our top performers?
12 mins
17 Jan 2022
Article
Are we punishing our top performers?

Jason
Lengstorf
How to build an effective working group
8 mins
20 Dec 2021
Article
How to build an effective working group

Jason
Wong
Using deadlines effectively to build happy and creative teams
12 mins
22 Oct 2021
Article
Using deadlines effectively to build happy and creative teams

Jason
Wong
A shared platform: how marketing and engineering teams can effectively collaborate
11 mins
19 Aug 2021
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by PELOTON
A shared platform: how marketing and engineering teams can effectively collaborate
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Bethan
Vincent
26 Jul 2021
Video
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships

Anjuan
Simmons

Charles
Garrett
26 Jul 2021
Video
Holding effective coaching conversations

Nik
Knight

Phillipa
Rodney
Shaping engineering leadership through letting go
7 mins
01 Jun 2021
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by EXPEDIA
Shaping engineering leadership through letting go
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Sook
Meng Muk
How to write communication guidelines – and live by them
8 mins
02 Feb 2021
Article
How to write communication guidelines – and live by them
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Antonia
Landi
11 Sep 2015
Video
Building happier engineering teams

Oren
Ellenbogen
21 Feb 2017
Video
Finding the right ingredients for the perfect engineering team

Kevin
Goldsmith
21 Feb 2017
Video
Making developers on support work for everyone

Camille
Acey
27 Jun 2018
Video
Teaching New Tricks – How to enhance the skills of experienced developers

Clare
Sudbery
How to make reorgs less terrible
11 mins
25 Jan 2021
Article
How to make reorgs less terrible

Katie
Wilde
Learnings from 'Assessing the health of your engineering orgs'
4 mins
05 Jan 2021
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Learnings from 'Assessing the health of your engineering orgs'

Ellie
Spencer-Failes
The geometry of software teams
5 mins
14 Dec 2020
Article
The geometry of software teams

Rod
Begbie
The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team
3 mins
09 Nov 2020
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team

Hillary
Nussbaum
Want to gauge the wellbeing of your team? All you have to do is ask
6 mins
26 Oct 2020
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by CODE CLIMATE
Want to gauge the wellbeing of your team? All you have to do is ask

Jemma
Bolland
Building bridges between Design and Development
8 mins
14 Oct 2020
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by GITLAB
Building bridges between Design and Development

Virginie
Caplet
Creating an inclusive team culture in times of change
7 mins
08 Sep 2020
Article
Creating an inclusive team culture in times of change
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Yenny
Cheung
In it for the long haul: long-term team building
11 mins
01 Sep 2020
Article
In it for the long haul: long-term team building

Neha
Batra
30 Apr 2019
Video
How to create a career ladder for your software engineering teams
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Marco
Rogers
Improving your team satisfaction survey results
3 mins
27 Feb 2023
Article
Improving your team satisfaction survey results

Rahul
Verma
Encouraging autonomy within engineering teams
6 mins
06 Dec 2022
Article
Encouraging autonomy within engineering teams

James
Stanier
Great engineers are made by great engineering teams
01 Apr 2022
Video
Great engineers are made by great engineering teams

Charity
Majors
Running your first internal hackathon
11 mins
17 Feb 2022
Article
Running your first internal hackathon

Anthony
Mayer
The importance of small, positive interactions
7 mins
30 Dec 2021
Article
The importance of small, positive interactions

Camille
Fournier
The journey to becoming a team
14 mins
07 Dec 2021
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by HONEYCOMB
The journey to becoming a team

Makedonka
Stamatova
26 Jul 2021
Video
Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else

Adrian
Howard
Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
7 mins
10 Feb 2021
Article
Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Cate
Huston
11 Sep 2015
Video
Cloning yourself isn't an option

Camille
Fournier
Managing conflict in engineering teams
7 mins
27 Jan 2021
Article
Managing conflict in engineering teams
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Keanan
Koppenhaver
Building a vernacular with your engineering team
4 mins
08 Jan 2021
Article
Building a vernacular with your engineering team

Kevin
Goldsmith
Gaining insight and preventing misalignment without micromanaging
5 mins
09 Dec 2020
Article
Gaining insight and preventing misalignment without micromanaging

Camille
Fournier
Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products
7 mins
15 Oct 2020
Article
CONTENT SPONSORED by PEPSICO
Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products

Raphaela
Wrede
Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers
8 mins
07 Sep 2020
Article
Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers

Tanya
Reilly
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