Latest
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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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How I support my reports’ mental health as a new manager
How can engineering managers support mental health in their teams? Matt Cooper shares five ways to get started.
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How to harness the power of deadlines in engineering teams
Managing deadlines is about more than setting dates. Here’s how to plan for ambitious but achievable deadlines.
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Three strategies for building trust with your engineering teams
Sowing the seeds of trust within your teams
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How to maintain a winning company culture as you grow
Creating and sustaining a great company culture
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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team
Strategies for leading user-focused development teams
Top Culture videos
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Examples are hard: Prioritizing developer experience
Understand how to always put your developers’ experience first
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Great engineers are made by great engineering teams
Learn how to build teams that nurture great engineers.
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Shaping culture in the engineering organization
How to you ensure diversity, equity, and belonging are fundamental parts of your culture.
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Building Culture through Communication
Neha Batra talks about building a team culture requires time, care, attention, and intention.
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How to bring accessibility into your teams
Laveena Ramchandani focuses on accessibility testing and how it is vital especially when your product is a user-facing application. We need to be socially aware as a team and build quality towards our product by making it more accessible.
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Using incidents to level-up your teams
Lisa Karlin Curtis discusses the different things that individuals and teams can learn from incidents, and gives a few suggestions that’ll help you and your teams get the best value from the incidents that you have.
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Creating a user-focused engineering team
Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.
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The tools of culture change
In this talk Jason will cover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to culture change, and give you the tools you need to get the best out of your team.