Latest
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The performative trap of public recognition
Ensuring your team members receive proper acknowledgement for their work extends beyond shallow praise.
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Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer
Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.
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How big tech fell out of love with remote work
The biggest tech firms are all firmly on one side of the RTO debate.
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The magic of crisis
Discover how Staff+ engineers can use moments of crisis to drive lasting technical change and strengthen organizational systems.
Editor’s picks
Cooking up a culture of continuous learning
Continuous learning is an important part of building a collaborative culture.
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.
Trust is the ultimate driver of engineering excellence
How can you improve the level of trust in your teams to bolster performance and encourage an inclusive culture.
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
Rands, Nicole Forsgren,
& Matej Pfajfar confirmed
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
Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.
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?
The festival for modern engineering leadership
London • June 2 & 3, 2026
More about Culture
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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.
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How to build trust as a new engineering manager
Being the new kid on the block is daunting. It can take a while to finally earn your team’s trust but it’s rewarding all the same.
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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.
Top Culture videos
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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.
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Controlling Cloud Costs with Culture
In this talk, we’ll cover why frameworks and best practices aren’t enough and three key steps to create a cost-conscious culture.
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Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you: A highlight reel of team fun
In this talk, Allison gives tips on how to sprinkle in weekly magic to your team in order to help make work more enjoyable and encourage getting to know the smart, kind, fun people you work with.
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Building happy and effective data teams
Where do you start when building a data team, and how can you keep them motivated?