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How to avoid working in silos
Sometimes, especially if you’re in a remote working environment, silos can be difficult to avoid. So how do you remedy the issue?
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4 rituals that revolutionized my engineering teams
Nailing your ritual meetings can be a difficult job. How can you find the sweet spot between the right stakeholders and time management?
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Meta and the great DEI rollback
Once an emblem of inclusivity, Meta has officially joined tech’s anti-DEI bandwagon.
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Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.
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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 16 & 17, 2025
Speakers Gergely Orosz, Camille Fournier
and Lara Hogan confirmed
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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 16 & 17, 2025
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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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Content sponsored by YLD
Tackling some DevOps antipatterns
And the case for adopting platform engineering and SRE practices to mitigate against them.
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Beware of founder mode
Everyone’s talking about founder mode, but what impact will this idea have on software engineers?
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How “you build it, you run it” improves team performance
Whether it’s recruiting new talent, team accountability, or streamlining processes, “you build it, you run it” is the philosophy for you.
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How to get the most out of staff+ engineers
Staff+ engineers are often overlooked despite their wealth of knowledge and business understanding. How can we stop the cycle?
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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.
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Feeling the squeeze? GreenOps offers a sustainable solution for busy engineering teams
Discover how GreenOps empowers engineering teams to integrate sustainability into their workflows, building on FinOps and DevOps principles for efficiency and environmental impact.
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Leading through scarcity: Building capacity in the team you have
Discover strategies to lead effectively through scarcity. Learn how to build capacity within existing teams, maximizing performance amid constraints and fostering sustainable growth.
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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.
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Content sponsored by Pantheon
What does a ‘modern’ DevOps culture actually look like?
DevOps as we know it is constantly evolving. In this webinar, we find out if the latest trends are worth the hype.
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Inclusion on purpose: An intersectional approach to creating a culture of belonging at work
Ruchika Tulshyan in conversation
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You don’t understand how trust works
Explore how to cultivate genuine trust between managers and teams, empowering collaboration and resilience through empathy, active listening, and shared responsibility for greater organizational success.
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Optimizing the developer experience through collaboration
In the fast-paced world of software development, collaboration is key to building robust and innovative solutions.
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Safety and Belonging – A Ritual to Jumpstart Psychological Safety
Learn how to cultivate psychological safety in teams through practical strategies and a 3-part workshop, inspired by Riot Games’ “Safety and Belonging” ritual.