Latest
-
Preventing burnout with restful work
Restful work can be a great way to mitigate a case of burnout. Here’s a framework you can follow to implement it into your day-to-day.
-
What is a staff engineer? Technical leaders who aren’t managers
Staff engineers are technical leaders who have deep domain knowledge, walking the line between tech and the business.
-
Grow your influence like a leader, not a boss
Extending your influence past your immediate circle isn’t as straightforward as you’d like to hope. But there are a few strategies you can employ to help.
-
Growing the next generation of leaders: Levelling up your teams
Dana discusses how you can identify the skill gaps in your teams and support your managers as they transition to leadership.
Editor’s picks
Adapting your leadership for a downturn
Leading through a downturn requires a different approach. Here’s how to realign your leadership to suit this new set of challenges.
How to lead individuals with advanced technical expertise
If you’re a manager of individual contributor’s who have more years of experience on you, you may be confused on how best to lead them.
Tech layoffs are making things worse for women in leadership
The recent wave of layoffs has left fewer women in leadership positions, can the trend be reversed?
How to lead senior engineers as a new manager
If you’ve just entered a management role, cultivating your relationship with the senior engineers on your team may be a daunting prospect. Here are a few ways to get that relationship off to a good start.
That’s a wrap for LeadDev Berlin 2024!
Watch all of the talk videos from an incredible two days with a digital pass.
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Leadership playlist
Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
Elevating your leadership skills during tough times
What skills do you need to be a great leader during economic uncertainty?
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Post-ZIRP engineering leadership
This talk explores the evolution of the engineering leadership role from the growth-focused 2010s to today’s environment of increased scrutiny and accountability.
That’s a wrap Berlin!
Catch-up on all the Lead Berlin 2024 talks with a digital pass.
More about Engineering Management
Top Leadership videos
-
Leading Engineering Teams Through Times of Uncertainty
At the core of an engineering managers’ role is the responsibility to ensure the happiness of your teams. As a leader, you’re expected to shield your teams from outside noise and create a stable environment for work – but what happens when there are situations too big for you to resolve?
-
Engineering leadership in the time of coronavirus
As unprecedented situations occur, as a company it is your duty to ensure the safety of your employees. As such, you’ve made the decision to work remotely; you’ve made sure everyone’s safe and that they can connect to your systems. Their Instant Bloomberg (IB) dots are green.
-
On Postponing Lead Dev New York and London
In January, news reports began to emerge of Coronavirus. The news was shocking, upsetting, and evidently very serious. But while we watched the news anxiously, we were still weeks away from understanding just how frightening the chain of events would be, and how they would impact our working lives.
-
Minimum Viable Business Continuity Management
The COVID-19 pandemic has probably made many of us view our Business Continuity Management approach quite differently to how we might have 6 months ago.
-
Leading Leads – Lessons from a growing team
Leading a growing team is exciting – it means you’ve earned the trust to expand out and your team is able to take on new, bigger challenges.
-
Leadership. By the numbers.
A series of simple numbers can represent a useful and memorable corpus of hard-earned leadership experience. This talk will succinctly explain essential leadership lessons that you can either heed or simply wait to experience.
-
Leading radical change as an engineering manager
February 2017 will mark a year since I started in a role aimed at radically changing how Indeed thinks about front-end engineering.
-
Leading through public speaking as an engineering leader
In our work, we each have moments of saying some prepared words under a spotlight – whether it’s during team standups, giving a presentation to a client, or pitching your promotion to your boss – and yet we all have different fears about those moments.