Latest
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The performative trap of public recognition
Ensuring your team members receive proper acknowledgement for their work extends beyond shallow praise.
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Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer
Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.
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How big tech fell out of love with remote work
The biggest tech firms are all firmly on one side of the RTO debate.
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The magic of crisis
Discover how Staff+ engineers can use moments of crisis to drive lasting technical change and strengthen organizational systems.
Editor’s picks
Cooking up a culture of continuous learning
Continuous learning is an important part of building a collaborative culture.
Build a productive code review culture
Code reviews can be tense and stressful if done incorrectly. Avoid bikeshedding and set good cultural standards with these nine simple steps.
Trust is the ultimate driver of engineering excellence
How can you improve the level of trust in your teams to bolster performance and encourage an inclusive culture.
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Rands, Nicole Forsgren,
& Matej Pfajfar confirmed
Essential reading
How to build an intentional culture
Don’t leave your culture up to chance. Curate your principles and values intentionally to build high-performing, harmonious teams.
On our Culture playlist
Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.
How to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.
Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams
How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Culture
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Building a more effective DevSecOps culture
Many of the old walls have come down between developers, operations, and security professionals, but there are still some steps you can take to build a truly effective culture.
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How to avoid burnout in remote engineers
Working remotely may not seem like the sort of environment where burnout thrives, but it is. Learn about ways to avoid common pitfalls and lead a more balanced work life.
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Four strategies for avoiding stress as a senior engineer
Work can be stressful, but using these four techniques can slow things down and help you make clearer decisions.
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Being an empathetic leader during organizational change
As a leader, it’s essential to create a positive and supportive environment for your team, especially during times of organizational change.
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How team agreements promote high performance
Cohesive teams share unspoken and spoken agreements which inform the way members interact and collaborate. If handled well, they help boost productivity.
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Using workshops to align technical vision and team principles
Using the framework and lessons learned from a workshop led by VP of Engineering Anthony Mayer, discover how you can align your technical vision and company principles for a growing engineering team.
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Running human-focused postmortems
Incidents and postmortems can be stressful for everyone involved, but there is a way to resolve issues with empathy for everyone involved.
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Improving your team satisfaction survey results
Team satisfaction surveys are a great starting point for engineering leaders looking to build happy and productive teams.
Top Culture videos
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Building Culture through Communication
Neha Batra talks about building a team culture requires time, care, attention, and intention.
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How to bring accessibility into your teams
Laveena Ramchandani focuses on accessibility testing and how it is vital especially when your product is a user-facing application. We need to be socially aware as a team and build quality towards our product by making it more accessible.
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Using incidents to level-up your teams
Lisa Karlin Curtis discusses the different things that individuals and teams can learn from incidents, and gives a few suggestions that’ll help you and your teams get the best value from the incidents that you have.
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Creating a user-focused engineering team
Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.
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The tools of culture change
In this talk Jason will cover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to culture change, and give you the tools you need to get the best out of your team.
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Calling out a terrible on call system
Molly Struve knew the system had to change if we wanted to continue growing and not lose our developer talent, but the question was how?
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Simplify your postmortems and focus on scaling
Ricardo Aravena gives us a better understanding of how to run effective postmortems consistently to mature DevOps in the organization.
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Harassers are nice to me
Sarah Milstein looks at techniques for surfacing and addressing bad behaviour in the workplace.