Latest
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Metrics don’t tell the whole story
Metrics can clue you in on issues proliferating in your systems, but customers’ anecdotal feedback can help you catch unknown unknowns.
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Become a better force multiplier in 4 steps
Becoming a force multiplier might sound daunting, but focusing on sharing knowledge, delegation, and communication is the key to success.
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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.
Deadline: January 4, 2026
Call for Proposals for London 2026 is open!
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 of engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Culture
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Four ways to protect yourself from burnout
You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm. Here are some preventative steps you can take to avoid burning out.
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How I support my reports’ mental health as a new manager
How can engineering managers support mental health in their teams? Matt Cooper shares five ways to get started.
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How to harness the power of deadlines in engineering teams
Managing deadlines is about more than setting dates. Here’s how to plan for ambitious but achievable deadlines.
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Three strategies for building trust with your engineering teams
Sowing the seeds of trust within your teams
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How to maintain a winning company culture as you grow
Creating and sustaining a great company culture
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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team
Strategies for leading user-focused development teams
Top Culture videos
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Equipping your team to support junior developers
Aisha Blake discusses actionable steps for building junior-inclusive practices through active reflection, sustainable processes, and a focus on empathetic communication.
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Eliminating hero culture in software engineering teams
Infrastructure Program Manager at Google Brianna McCullough will discuss what common pitfalls to avoid when scaling your team at
LeadDev Together on February 1. -
Fostering psychological safety in distributed teams
Taylor Poindexter asks how can you do your best to ensure your team has psychological safety and the proper processes to set yourselves up for success in a remote-first world.
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Culture change in a hostile environment
Jason Wong discusses strategies and tactics for seeding cultural change, creating environments for that change to grow, and what are the limits to those changes at LeadDev Together.
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Creating a culture of trust
Dana Lawson explores how to quickly build cultures of trust on engineering teams, outlining the benefits and giving practical advice at LeadDev Together.
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In partnership with Lohika
Cultivating effective cross-functional relationships
In this panel, we’ll explore how engineering departments can form strong relationships with other teams.
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Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
In this talk, I’ll explore these problems through the lens of Sturgeon’s Revelation usually stated as “ninety percent of everything is crud”!
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Holding effective coaching conversations
Explore how to hold effective coaching conversations as leaders.