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27 Jan 2021 Article

Managing conflict in engineering teams

How to strengthen your team – not let it fall apart

Keanan Koppenhaver

7 mins

21 Nov 2022 Article

How to develop curiosity in your team

Clement Verna

6 mins

18 Nov 2022 Article

The old Twitter is gone

Chris Stokel-Walker

4 mins

31 Oct 2022 Article

What the Californian pay transparency laws mean for engineering managers

Chris Stokel-Walker

6 mins

26 Oct 2022 Article

Three ways to remove bias from technical interviews

Michael Newman

6 mins

25 Oct 2022 Article

What I’ve learned from two years of managing remotely

Léonard Labat

6 mins

19 Oct 2022 Article

Navigating power dynamics as a manager

Pat Kua

5 mins

14 Oct 2022 Article

Using success metrics to foster autonomy in engineering teams

Thomás Sieczkowski

8 mins

11 Oct 2022 Article

Making an impact as a new manager of managers

Riccardo Cocetta

11 mins

05 Oct 2022 Article

The trifecta model: Bringing together engineering, product, and design

James Stanier

6 mins

26 Sep 2022 Article

How to build a healthy relationship between engineering and product

Danielle Leong

7 mins

21 Sep 2022 Article

How to harness the power of deadlines in engineering teams

Vaidehi Joshi

8 mins

14 Sep 2022 Article

Six ways to beat the tech talent shortage

John Lennon

7 mins

07 Sep 2022 Article

How to hire the right engineers for your team

Alissa Bonas

12 mins

05 Sep 2022 Article

What to do when a beloved employee quits

Lara Hogan

12 mins

24 Aug 2022 Article

Six inclusive hiring tips to attract the right engineers for your org

Sara Gutierrez

6 mins

22 Aug 2022 Article

How to create an effective offboarding plan when you’re leaving your job

Arjit Srivastava

7 mins

15 Aug 2022 Article

How to streamline your processes as an engineering manager

Sarah Drasner

14 mins

10 Aug 2022 Article

Seven tips for evaluating soft skills in interviews

Marcin Olichwirowicz

9 mins

27 Jul 2022 Article

Seven things you need to know about retaining engineering talent

Ella Morrish

8 mins

25 Jul 2022 Article

Three strategies for building trust with your engineering teams

Vaidehi Joshi

6 mins

28 Jun 2022 Article

Five must-reads on fostering an inclusive engineering culture

Ishaan Singh

Ella Morrish

5 mins

28 Jun 2022 Article

Everything you need to know about scaling an engineering team

Lilach Ritter

11 mins

27 Jun 2022 Article

Why leaders can’t see workplace harassment

Sarah Milstein

7 mins

21 Jun 2022 Article

Taking over an existing engineering team? Follow these three tips.

Vaidehi Joshi

11 mins

13 Jun 2022 Article

Leveling up your reporting as an engineering manager

Ella Morrish

5 mins

07 Jun 2022 Article

Five things you need to know about setting the right goals for engineering teams

Ella Morrish

5 mins

31 May 2022 Article

Making goals a habit: A guide to reaching engineering goals

Eric Rabinovich

11 mins

30 May 2022 Article

Six ways to become a better manager

Addy Osmani

12 mins

23 May 2022 Article

Five essential tips for great internal communication

Jason Lengstorf

7 mins

18 May 2022 Article

Four ways to invest in junior engineers

Dileep Marway

6 mins

18 May 2022 Article

How do Netflix, Nubank, and Airbrake achieve engineering success?

Lindsey Bleimes

Sangeeta Narayanan

+1 more

13 mins

17 May 2022 Article

A manager’s guide to performance calibration

Alex Karp

12 mins

04 May 2022 Article

The dangers of pulling rank as a Staff+ engineer

Jeffrey Sherman

11 mins

26 Apr 2022 Article

Taking out the guesswork: How to set clear expectations as a manager

Kat Kuhl

13 mins

25 Apr 2022 Article

How to spot high-potential junior talent during interviews

Jonathan Geggatt

10 mins

19 Apr 2022 Article

The key to managing a global remote team

Kainar Kamalov

11 mins

11 Apr 2022 Article

How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity

Cory Watson

12 mins

06 Apr 2022 Article

Being available: The secret to great leadership

Cassidy Williams

6 mins

30 Mar 2022 Article

It’s not a people problem. So what is it?

Edi Bouazza

12 mins

30 Mar 2022 Article

How to build trust when building software

Gina Trapani

11 mins

23 Mar 2022 Article

Everything you need to know from 'Removing the barrier between security and engineering’

Ella Morrish

5 mins

22 Mar 2022 Article

The three things leaders owe their teams

Jason Lengstorf

10 mins

16 Mar 2022 Article

Is fear stopping your engineering team from achieving its goals?

Göran Sandahl

11 mins

16 Mar 2022 Article

Is fear stopping your engineering team from achieving its goals?

Göran Sandahl

11 mins

18 Mar 2022 Article

A guide to open source for the traditional enterprise

Raimon Ràfols

12 mins

11 Mar 2022 Article

Supporting, influencing, and leading as a security practitioner

Izar Tarandach

14 mins

09 Mar 2022 Article

Using coaching to unlock the future of your distributed organization

Matt Cohen

9 mins

08 Mar 2022 Article

Advice for the reluctant new manager

Camille Fournier

9 mins

01 Mar 2022 Article

How Twitter grew a single team into a thriving distributed community

Marina Zhao

Charlie Croom

14 mins

28 Feb 2022 Article

Promoted someone on your team? Here’s how to announce it fairly.

Lara Hogan

10 mins

24 Feb 2022 Article

Four mistakes I made as a new manager

AbdulFattah Popoola

12 mins

21 Feb 2022 Article

Fixing salaries, levels, and promotions in your engineering org

Sarah Milstein

11 mins

16 Feb 2022 Article

Using coaching skills to grow compassion, empathy, and kindness

Nik Knight

12 mins

15 Feb 2022 Article

Fighting the mirrortocracy with inclusive hiring

Kevin Stewart

8 mins

09 Feb 2022 Article

Seven ways managers can respond when engineering goes wrong

Ieuan Stanley

10 mins

03 Feb 2022 Article

Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs

Rafael Esquiçato

9 mins

19 Jan 2022 Article

How Twitter built a decentralized engineering organization in Singapore

Angad Singh

11 mins

17 Jan 2022 Article

Are we punishing our top performers?

Jason Lengstorf

12 mins

10 Jan 2022 Article

Creating user-friendly error messages

Leslie Chapman

10 mins

29 Dec 2021 Article

Want to advance underrepresented folks in tech? Sponsor them.

Kevin Stewart

8 mins

28 Dec 2021 Article

Fostering a culture of accountability

Sarah Milstein

7 mins

04 Jan 2022 Article

Help your teammates navigate moments of self-doubt

Lara Hogan

5 mins

21 Dec 2021 Article

Five things you need to know from ‘Addressing your team's technical skills gaps’

Ella Morrish

6 mins

20 Dec 2021 Article

How to build an effective working group

Jason Wong

8 mins

07 Dec 2021 Article

The journey to becoming a team

Makedonka Stamatova

14 mins

15 Dec 2021 Article

Addressing skills gaps for senior engineers

Kristen Spencer

7 mins

30 Nov 2021 Article

Cross-functional collaboration doesn't have to be a nightmare

Francis Shanahan

8 mins

24 Nov 2021 Article

How do engineers learn? A model for teaching skills, knowledge, and wisdom

Hywel Carver

14 mins

10 Nov 2021 Article

Finding a company with an inclusive engineering culture

Jossie Haines

9 mins

08 Nov 2021 Article

Pandemic remote work and purpose-built remote work are not the same thing

Nickolas Means

11 mins

02 Nov 2021 Article

Compromise and collaboration: Working with product

Jiaqi Liu

12 mins

25 Oct 2021 Article

Finding the right kind of opportunities for your sponsee

Lara Hogan

8 mins

28 Oct 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Managing your people as your business scales'

Ella Morrish

5 mins

27 Oct 2021 Article

Management isn't a promotion

Chloe Cota

Sabeen Syed

7 mins

22 Oct 2021 Article

Using deadlines effectively to build happy and creative teams

Jason Wong

12 mins

18 Oct 2021 Article

Seven ways to help your team connect when you’re apart

Sarah Milstein

10 mins

13 Oct 2021 Article

Ego is getting in the way of learning

Hywel Carver

11 mins

06 Oct 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Getting your engineers invested in observability’

Ella Morrish

5 mins

04 Oct 2021 Article

Why flow matters more than passion

Sarah Drasner

15 mins

01 Oct 2021 Article

Seven principles for fostering great relationships with product teams

Miri Curiel

9 mins

29 Sep 2021 Article

Making the most of observability

Tom Oketch

12 mins

24 Sep 2021 Article

Delegation 101: Figuring out what to delegate

Neha Batra

9 mins

01 Jun 2021 Article

Shaping engineering leadership through letting go

Sook Meng Muk

7 mins

17 May 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Shaping distributed culture at scale'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

3 mins

11 May 2021 Article

The reward of growing junior engineers

Johnny Ray Austin

7 mins

06 May 2021 Article

Building relationships from further away for successful remote hiring

Jay Shirley

6 mins

30 Apr 2021 Article

Managing meetings without succumbing to Zoom fatigue

Jean Hsu

7 mins

29 Apr 2021 Article

Developing engineering talent

Emma Burstow

27 Apr 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Fostering autonomy in engineering teams'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

3 mis

27 Apr 2021 Article

Supporting neurodiversity in your engineering teams

Anna Granta

7 mins

30 Sep 2022 Article

Managing underperformance in engineering teams

Alex Mooney

5 mins

19 Apr 2021 Article

Managing, motivating, and challenging distributed engineering teams

Santiago Esteva

11 mins

13 Apr 2021 Article

Using engineering principles to create autonomous teams at scale

Wayne Bell

7 mins

12 Apr 2021 Article

What if you dread 1:1s with a direct report?

Lara Hogan

10 mins

30 Mar 2021 Article

The art of self-organizing engineering teams

Tom Sommer

9 mins

26 Mar 2021 Article

Six ways to create an unbiased hiring process

Amanda Richardson

5 mins

25 Mar 2021 Article

What linguistics can teach us about building software with distributed teams

Andrew Hao

10 mins

23 Mar 2021 Article

The push and pull of ongoing career conversations

Fabian Camargo

5 mins

17 Mar 2021 Article

The night the lights went out in Texas

Nickolas Means

10 mins

12 Mar 2021 Article

Creating a technical interview process that works at scale

Clement Ho

6 mins

11 Mar 2021 Article

The path to open source contributions

Brian Douglas

7 mins

08 Mar 2021 Article

How to create an inclusive space for different personalities

Stephanie Stimac

6 mins

26 Feb 2021 Article

The antiracist leader: organizational process

Jill Wetzler

13 mins

25 Feb 2021 Article

Starting a new job in a world of 'digital by design'

Kiana Mohseni

6 mins

17 Feb 2021 Article

Designing an inclusive workplace in a new normal

Yvette Pegues

4 mins

11 Feb 2021 Article

Onboarding shouldn't be bad

Allee Clark

7 mins

04 Feb 2021 Article

Grow your own grassroots allyship

Karan Mehra

9 mins

02 Feb 2021 Article

How to write communication guidelines – and live by them

Antonia Landi

8 mins

07 Jan 2021 Article

Confronting our own racism as white engineering managers

Sarah Milstein

6 mins

11 Dec 2020 Article

Onboarding remote, early-career engineers

Kevin Stewart

7 mins

30 Nov 2020 Article

Mentor, coach, sponsor: a guide to developing engineers

Neha Batra

10 mins

09 Aug 2021 Article

Looking out for burnout

Vaidehi Joshi

7 mins

25 Nov 2020 Article

Learnings from 'Placing collaboration at the heart of your technical projects'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

4 mins

25 Nov 2020 Article

Radical candor for distributed engineering teams

Katie Wilde

6 mins

10 Nov 2020 Article

Learnings from 'Examining underrepresentation'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

5 mins

09 Nov 2020 Article

The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team

Hillary Nussbaum

3 mins

06 Nov 2020 Article

Bootstrapping a culture of learning in five minutes a day

Matthew Butt

6 mins

28 Oct 2020 Article

How to avoid alert fatigue

Serhat Can

6 mins

28 Oct 2020 Article

Building a culture of collaboration in the modern enterprise

Cormac Foster

7 mins

27 Oct 2020 Article

Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too

Sarah Milstein

9 mins

23 Oct 2020 Article

How to build your learning culture

Kwame Thomison

8 mins

21 Oct 2020 Article

Engineering management 101: evaluating your team’s performance

Camille Fournier

7 mins

19 Oct 2020 Article

The antiracist leader: sponsorship

Jill Wetzler

15 mins

15 Oct 2020 Article

Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products

Raphaela Wrede

7 mins

13 Oct 2020 Article

On being Latinx and an Engineering Leader in the United States

César Puerta

Virginia Lacayo

+1 more

5 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Preventing process deadlock

Victor Vu

7 mins

06 Oct 2020 Article

How to structure developer hiring to combat systemic DEI failures

Shannon Hogue-Brown

7 mins

09 Jun 2021 Article

Fostering autonomy and trust to lead high-performing teams

Smruti Patel

10 mins

01 Oct 2020 Article

Supporting your team in the face of technical unknowns

Nick Lee

4 mins

24 Sep 2020 Article

Engineering with empathy

Jossie Haines

6 mins

22 Sep 2020 Article

Fast-paced hiring: how to scale a team efficiently and without exhaustion

Emmanuelle Franquelin

6 mins

29 Sep 2020 Article

Accessibility from the start

Diana Macias

4 mins

28 Aug 2020 Article

Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you

Sarah Milstein

8 mins

16 Jun 2021 Article

Building a more globally inclusive internet

Sitati Kituyi

9 mins

25 Jun 2021 Article

How do you identify great engineers when hiring?

Yenny Cheung

6 mins

29 Jun 2021 Article

A leader's guide to fostering effective cross-team collaboration

Lena Reinhard

8 mins

26 Jul 2021 Article

Beyond bootcamps

Amina Adewusi

7 mins

11 Aug 2021 Article

Supporting your team through periods of uncertainty

Jean Hsu

7 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

A shared platform: how marketing and engineering teams can effectively collaborate

Bethan Vincent

11 mins

20 Aug 2021 Article

How engineering leaders at Apple, Facebook, and more create adaptable teams

Austin Bagley

18 mins

24 Aug 2021 Article

How to achieve better team performance through data-driven standups

Khan Smith

4 mins

24 Aug 2021 Article

Understanding the mentorship mesh

Daniel Peck

8 mins

26 Aug 2021 Article

The three pillars of a positive engineering culture

David Carboni

10 mins

27 Aug 2021 Article

Driving a technical strategy at scale

Smruti Patel

10 mins

09 Nov 2022 Article

How to create an interview rubric that actually works

Michael Newman

4 mins

26 Oct 2022 Article

Using interview rubrics to make more confident hiring decisions

Alejandro Cadavid

4 mins

19 Oct 2022 Article

How I support my reports' mental health as a new manager

Matt Cooper

5 mins

10 Oct 2022 Article

Tech leadership mistakes that ruin productivity (and how to fix them)

Jason Lengstorf

9 mins

26 Sep 2022 Article

Ten reasons engineers choose to stay with an organization

Rebecca Abi Raad

8 mins

12 Sep 2022 Article

How to handle a reorganization as an engineering manager

Camille Fournier

8 mins

30 Aug 2022 Article

The key to alignment: Understanding your company’s stage of growth

Sarah Milstein

8 mins

15 Aug 2022 Article

How to successfully onboard remote engineering staff in four weeks

James Stanier

9 mins

02 Aug 2022 Article

The three secrets to building successful engineering and product relationships

Nickolas Means

7 mins

04 Jul 2022 Article

Three ways to run inclusive meetings

Pat Kua

10 mins

27 Jun 2022 Article

Three steps to successfully onboard junior engineers

Dan Abel

11 mins

21 Jun 2022 Article

How engineering, design, and product form the ‘software trinity’

Kevin Stewart

10 mins

01 Jun 2022 Article

How to maintain a winning company culture as you grow

Carlos Vilhena

6 mins

24 May 2022 Article

How to build an apprenticeship program for engineering managers

Jey Flores

17 mins

18 May 2022 Article

How to build and scale a Staff+ engineering community

Scott Triglia

8 mins

04 May 2022 Article

Nine steps to set your deputy up for success

Fabian Lindenberg

15 mins

25 Apr 2022 Article

The secret to hiring engineers when you pay less than Google

Sarah Milstein

11 mins

13 Apr 2022 Article

The four habits of highly effective teams

Curtis Allen

7 mins

05 Apr 2022 Article

Encouraging healthy conflict in a remote world

Andrew Lau

6 mins

29 Mar 2022 Article

How to stop shrinkage in engineering teams

Christoph Neijenhuis

13 mins

16 Mar 2022 Article

Quick wins to create an inclusive remote organization

Vaidehi Joshi

9 mins

16 Mar 2022 Article

Six ways security teams can build better relationships with engineering

Shirish Padalkar

6 mins

09 Mar 2022 Article

How to lead your junior engineers to success

Ceora Ford

6 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team

Dan Persa

11 mins

24 Feb 2022 Article

Common traps when hiring your company’s first engineering manager

Jason Wong

11 mins

17 Feb 2022 Article

Running your first internal hackathon

Anthony Mayer

11 mins

10 Feb 2022 Article

Balancing delivery speed with engineering health

Claire Tran

13 mins

26 Jan 2022 Article

How to (slowly) build trust with your staff engineers

Leemay Nassery

6 mins

13 Jan 2022 Article

Top 10 ideas to take into 2022

Ishaan Singh

8 mins

30 Dec 2021 Article

The importance of small, positive interactions

Camille Fournier

7 mins

21 Dec 2021 Article

Opening doors for Black engineers

Legand Burge

7 mins

14 Dec 2021 Article

Everything you need to know from ‘Breaking down knowledge silos between engineering teams'

Ella Morrish

5 mins

02 Dec 2021 Article

How to build multiplatform skills in your mobile app team

Sam Hill

9 mins

16 Nov 2021 Article

Run better meetings to build community in your remote team

Jason Lengstorf

14 mins

05 Nov 2021 Article

Delegating the right tasks to the right people

Leslie Chapman

6 mins

01 Nov 2021 Article

Managing unexpected work requests when your team is busy

Camille Fournier

8 mins

22 Oct 2021 Article

Learnings from ‘Mentoring junior engineers’

Ella Morrish

4 mins

14 Oct 2021 Article

How to break down silos between teams

Raul Herbster

7 mins

06 Oct 2021 Article

Addressing the access gap in tech

Michelle Brenner

8 mins

29 Sep 2021 Article

How to effectively onboard teams at scale

Austin Bagley

Gergely Orosz

+1 more

11 mins

08 Jun 2021 Article

Successfully integrating remote engineers

Greg Dick

6 mins

17 May 2021 Article

Addressing the challenges of partially distributed engineering teams

Kevin Goldsmith

8 mins

04 May 2021 Article

Recruiting diverse engineering talent is everyone's job

Maisha Gray-Diggs

6 mins

28 Apr 2021 Article

Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day

Camille Fournier

6 mins

19 Apr 2021 Article

How to hire an engineering manager: from within or without?

Charity Majors

9 mins

19 Apr 2021 Article

Increase your hiring success with job success profiles

Rod Begbie

10 mins

30 Mar 2021 Article

What do capuchin monkeys know about motivation that engineering leaders don’t?

Jared Silver

8 mins

25 Mar 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Adapting to the new normal in engineering'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

4 mins

22 Mar 2021 Article

Shaping inclusive cultures for remote engineering teams

Ivana Ng

6 mins

11 Mar 2021 Article

Helping engineering teams adapt to a new normal

Myra Fulton

5 mins

05 Mar 2021 Article

The huge opportunity of remote leadership

Sarah Milstein

6 mins

18 Feb 2021 Article

How to nurture the introverts in your engineering team

Betina Costa

7 mins

10 Feb 2021 Article

Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Cate Huston

7 mins

14 Dec 2020 Article

The geometry of software teams

Rod Begbie

5 mins

09 Dec 2020 Article

Gaining insight and preventing misalignment without micromanaging

Camille Fournier

5 mins

27 Nov 2020 Article

Your promotion process is leaving underrepresented groups behind

Jason Wong

5 mins

12 Nov 2020 Article

Writing accessible code

Julia Ferraioli

5 mins

02 Nov 2020 Article

Evaluating 1:1s: clear signs they're going well or off the rails

Adrienne Lowe

6 mins

29 Oct 2020 Article

Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation

Edoardo Turelli

8 mins

26 Oct 2020 Article

Want to gauge the wellbeing of your team? All you have to do is ask

Jemma Bolland

6 mins

20 Oct 2020 Article

Hiring the right engineer: remote interviewing that works

Allison McMillan

8 mins

14 Oct 2020 Article

Building bridges between Design and Development

Virginie Caplet

8 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Building stronger teams with AB testing

Jason van der Merwe

7 mins

02 Oct 2020 Article

'It’s been a tough week': managing mental health in the workplace

Leena Mansour

7 mins

10 Aug 2020 Article

Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams

Smruti Patel

14 mins

25 Aug 2020 Article

So you want to build antiracist teams?

Erica Stanley

11 mins

16 Jun 2021 Article

Coachability: the overlooked factor in people development

Cate Huston

8 mins

08 Jul 2021 Article

Cultivating an intentional engineering culture

Camille Acey

8 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

Unpopular (or popular) opinion: you have to work hard to keep your talented humans

Leemay Nassery

12 mins

23 Aug 2021 Article

Supporting diversity by promoting autonomy within distributed teams

Andres Gomez

11 mins

26 Aug 2021 Article

The hard thing about easy things

Larry Finn

13 mins

27 Apr 2022 Article

Structuring engineering teams to deliver value to diverse markets

Grygoriy Gonchar

9 mins

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