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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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Here’s why you shouldn’t treat employee mental health as a mental health problem
Simply trying to tackle the issue as it happens is not a sustainable solution, says new research.
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Using leave to cultivate autonomy in your team
What if the key to better managerial presence was absence?
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How to mix junior and senior engineers on a team
One of the most important parts of the job of an engineering leader is assembling a team of developers that can work together in the most efficient way possible.
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How to spot and close capability gaps
Putting together the right engineering team is difficult, but with the current hiring climate, it’s harder than ever to identify and fill capability gaps.
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Growing an experiment-driven quality culture
Learn about the actionable steps you can take to achieve an outstanding quality culture via experimentation.
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Why motivation and self-efficacy drives thriving software teams
Don’t overlook the importance of self-efficacy and sustaining motivation through challenges as qualities of thriving software development teams.
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Building a more effective DevSecOps culture
Many of the old walls have come down between developers, operations, and security professionals, but there are still some steps you can take to build a truly effective culture.
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How to avoid burnout in remote engineers
Working remotely may not seem like the sort of environment where burnout thrives, but it is. Learn about ways to avoid common pitfalls and lead a more balanced work life.
Top Culture videos
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Recognizing and preventing burnout in your teams
Learn how to recognise and avoid burnout in your teams as an engineering manager
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
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Purpose: Glue for Talent
Talent today seeks higher purpose and meaning in their work. Successful businesses hear this and respond.
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Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark
Inclusion is the foundation of creating a level playing field for employees with all backgrounds to be heard, to be challenged, and to have an impact.
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What’s fair?
How do people leaders impact the scales of fairness when they’re trying to be effective?