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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.
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
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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?
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More about Culture
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Diversity and inclusion strategies that go beyond hiring
DEI strategies aren’t exclusively reserved for hiring cycles. Orgs should be going beyond that to retain diverse talent.
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Upskilling teams at scale with learnathons
Learnathons are great opportunities to bring your teams together and make strides in upskilling. Here is a framework to get started.
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3 scenarios when you should ask for help
Sometimes, it can be difficult to ask for help. But doing so can benefit everyone, including yourself!
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Ask Maria: How do we gel after getting acquired?
There can be a lot of friction as teams navigate new waters. From top-down misalignment to low morale in teams, here are some tricks to tackle common problems.
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Strategies for managing being overwhelmed
Feeling overwhelmed isn’t as rare as we’d like to think. So, when these emotions do arise, it’s good to have some techniques that can help you overcome them.
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Performance management: strategies, practices, and key insights
Performance management comprises many different parts that can be difficult to track. Learn about strategies and practices you can implement to help make shaping your teams easier.
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Managing challenging people
Challenging team members are common, but managing them is anything but straightforward.
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Being an effective remote employee
A hybrid environment comes with peaks and valleys. You may be working remotely, but not everyone else is, and that can be tricky.
Top Culture videos
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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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Challenges in transforming a multicultural local-only company to a remote-first
Felipe Furlan discusses the most significant challenges and the strategies we use to overcome them. I will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy.
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Go with the flow: Embracing and supporting menstrual needs in tech
Amy Roberts-Hoad spotlights the often-underestimated influence of menstruation on tech teams. Through personal anecdotes, she offers actionable insights on fostering conversations around this topic, paving the way for both inclusivity and heightened productivity.
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What does effective collaboration look like for busy engineering teams?
How can newly restructured and leaner teams collaborate effectively?
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Building and Promoting a Strong Engineering Culture
This talk will focus on how senior engineering leaders can build and promote a strong organizational culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.