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How to set up an asynchronous work environment
Remote working environments can be extraordinarily rewarding and advantageous for certain companies. Here’s how you can start your journey.
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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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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.
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
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Culture
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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.
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Four strategies for avoiding stress as a senior engineer
Work can be stressful, but using these four techniques can slow things down and help you make clearer decisions.
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Being an empathetic leader during organizational change
As a leader, it’s essential to create a positive and supportive environment for your team, especially during times of organizational change.
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How team agreements promote high performance
Cohesive teams share unspoken and spoken agreements which inform the way members interact and collaborate. If handled well, they help boost productivity.
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Using workshops to align technical vision and team principles
Using the framework and lessons learned from a workshop led by VP of Engineering Anthony Mayer, discover how you can align your technical vision and company principles for a growing engineering team.
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Running human-focused postmortems
Incidents and postmortems can be stressful for everyone involved, but there is a way to resolve issues with empathy for everyone involved.
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Improving your team satisfaction survey results
Team satisfaction surveys are a great starting point for engineering leaders looking to build happy and productive teams.
Top Culture videos
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A lean DevOps approach to learning & development
In this talk Sorrel will explain the rationale behind our approach to L&D and show you how it is operated in practice.
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On call does not have to suck
In this talk, Charity discusses the idea that being on call is a burden when in fact being on call can be a great time to unleash your curiosity, learn new skills, and develop/refine your technical judgment.
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Bridging the Dev-Sec divide: Three tips for agile developers
In this session, Luisa will show you three proven steps that you can apply in your own teams to not only build from scratch but also grow a DevSec culture in your tech organization.
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Transitioning from synchronous to asynchronous (and somewhere between)
Michael will talk you through the reasons why he feels asynchronous (and sometimes synchronous) working is so beneficial, and how the culture of the team helped inspire other teams.
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Understanding Time Systems Creates Successful Engineering Teams
This talk will explain how different cultures and the processes and tools we use at work relate to time, and finally how to take advantage of the strengths in each to build a better team.
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Organizational Change Through The Power Of Why – DevSecOps Enablement
In this talk you will learn how to communicate and educate your teams on security approaches and best practices.
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There’s no “I” in learning from incidents.
In this talk, Vanessa walks you through the different stages of a Post-Incident Process and explains how to get folks from different parts of your org involved.
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No more heroes: User experience design for incident response
In this talk, Plum discusses the “user experience design” of incident response processes that allow them to grow alongside a rapidly expanding team and technical landscape.