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Culture

Culture

Establishing a positive engineering culture

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

Ask Maria: Why doesn’t my team go the extra mile?

Building a culture of accountability.

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.

Put your hand up: keeping a small-company mindset as you grow

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.

Content sponsored by Harness

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.

Content sponsored by Split

Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams

How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?

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Top Culture videos

  • Ellen

    Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture

    This talk will focus on how senior engineering leaders can build and promote a strong organizational culture.

  • Finding your path to vision and mission

    Nicole Tibaldi, a Senior Engineering Manager at The New York Times, walks through the steps required to understand your goals for having a clear team vision and mission, and using that to empower engineers to make decisions.

  • Creating alignment across a project lifecycle

    As engineering managers, it’s normal to reach the end of the workday and feel like we’ve done a million things, without really gaining alignment across the project lifecycle.

  • When the movie isn’t like the book: Failure modes in strategic alignment

    If you’ve ever come to the humbling realization that you’re not exactly sure how your team fits into the overall company strategy, you’re not alone and you’re not a bad manager. In this talk, Maggie Litton unpacks why it’s sometimes hard to understand your company’s strategy and how your team fits into it.

  • Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams

    Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager

  • Librarian's Guide to Documentation

    Librarian’s guide to documentation

    Kaitlyn Tierney wants you to learn how to leverage librarian skills to create and maintain internal documentation that works for you. Improve technical decision making by fostering a culture of documentation excellence and inspiring clear, effective written communication with a few simple practices.

  • Building for the Underserved, Solving for All

    Building for the underserved, solving for all

    Serah Njambi Kiburu will remind us about the levels and weight of responsibility we carry as builders and leads in tech, zero in on the need for prioritising people-centric approaches in the design and development decisions we make everyday and implore us to move beyond only employing best practices in our work.

  • Christian Wong

    Engineering, everywhere, all at once: rethinking value as an engineering leader

    Christian Wong looks at how applying some simple techniques – adapted from product discovery – we can identify potential areas of opportunity, position ourselves to act with more intent in our collegial relationships, and then engage in a way that allows us to build the knowledge and context we need.