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How to set up an asynchronous work environment
Remote working environments can be extraordinarily rewarding and advantageous for certain companies. Here’s how you can start your journey.
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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.
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Become a stronger leader for your cross-cultural team
Having members of your team based all around the world requires you to have a flexible mindset and communication style.
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How to overcome feeling isolated as a senior engineering leader
Last month, we brought together a panel of engineering leaders to dive into the realities of leadership loneliness and share actionable strategies to combat it.
Editor’s picks
How to maintain a winning company culture as you grow
Creating and sustaining a great company culture
Encouraging a passion for productivity
In this edition of DirectorPlus, Neha Batra, VP of Engineering at GitHub, explains how she creates a culture of productivity.
How engineering leaders at Apple, Facebook, and more create adaptable teams
Building agility in engineering teams
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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
Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
Three tactics to build resilience into your teams
When you build resilience, you’re able to recover quickly from challenges.
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?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Culture
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How engineering leaders at Apple, Facebook, and more create adaptable teams
Building agility in engineering teams
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A shared platform: how marketing and engineering teams can effectively collaborate
Building happy, efficient cross-functional teams
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Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company
Six steps towards sustained innovation
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How Karat puts listening to customers at the heart of marketing
Understanding your customers’ pain is the first step to knowing how to help them.
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Mission Possible: how mission-based teams can improve performance and workplace culture
The journey to a more collaborative culture
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Cultivating an intentional engineering culture
What can your organization collectively do to reach its goals?
Top Culture videos
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Eiffel’s tower
When Gustave Eiffel built his namesake tower, it was nearly twice as tall as the tallest structure on Earth.
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Teaching New Tricks – How to enhance the skills of experienced developers
It’s easy to forget what it felt like when you were a beginner. This lively dog-based* talk is about the rewards and pitfalls involved in introducing pair programming, TDD and an agile development approach to experienced developers who are used to working in a different way
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Focusing engineering projects on customer value
Are you sick of seeing your team treated as a sausage machine for turning user stories into code? Can your developers only talk about how long something will take, or how exactly it will be built?
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Building sustainable engineering teams that handle uncertainty
It takes time and trust for a team to learn to work together well, and if you’ve achieved that it’s not surprising that you want to keep it that way.
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Habits of highly-performing teams
CTO Charity Majors joined us at #LeadDevLive to talk about everything that went into building a high-performing team at Honeycomb.
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Strategies for creating an environment of continuous learning
How to prioritize the development of your engineers.
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The importance of happiness
Every leader knows that employee happiness is important, but how important is it?
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On engineering impact
Tough technical problems are exciting to tackle and often engineers can think this is where they’re driving the most value.