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Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
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Maintain team performance during unexpected change
You’ll have to experience change management at least once in your career. Make sure your teams can maintain performance through it all.
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Unlocking performance management for start-ups and scale-ups
Performance management is tricky terrain to navigate, especially when you’re in a start-up or scale-up. Here are some frameworks to help.
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What do you mean there’s no onboarding plan for engineering managers?
In this talk, Daniel will share his four-week onboarding process for engineering leads that emphasizes peopleware, tech leadership, and delivery management.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
How can I rebuild a struggling team’s confidence and trust?
When there’s friction in the team you’re managing, morale, performance, and trust all take a hit. How can you rectify the situation?
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
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 Engineering Management playlist
Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
So you want to identify and nurture high performers?
Providing growth opportunities for the engineers in your team goes a long way toward motivating and retaining talent.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
Planning for success when scaling rapidly
Create goals, prioritize effectively, set expectations, and drive alignment.
November 4 & 5, 2025
The leadership conference for tech leads and engineering leaders.
More about Engineering Management
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How to reserve engineering capacity and deliver projects on time
When you’re project planning as a manager, it’s good to make sure you reserve some of your engineers’ capacity ahead of time.
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Can you lead a struggling team to success?
Taking a leadership position of a struggling team isn’t exactly a smooth ride. With ups and downs, it can be difficult to see a positive end.
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How to handle difficult conversations as a leader
Difficult conversations are never anyone’s favorite pastime. For many, it can be an anxiety-inducing trip…but it doesn’t have to be.
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How to plan team reorganizations
As an engineering leader, you’ll have to face team reorganizations at some point. Here is a tried-and-true method from Yelp’s David Kiger.
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Strategies for an efficient performance review cycle
Performance review cycles are long and arduous. Here are some strategies you can adopt to stay on top of it all.
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How to make hard choices as an engineering leader
A day in the life of an engineering leader is riddled with hard choices. How can you choose the optimal option for your org?
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How to better budget your time using the $10 method
Find yourself with a plate full of tasks and no time to complete them all? Maybe the $10 method is just the thing for you.
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6 ways to effectively lead software engineering managers
Being a manager of managers is not the easiest gig.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversation
In this episode, Cate discusses how to supercharge your career as a leader and thrive in your current role whilst supporting your team members.
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Finding balance: How to build processes that help not hurt your engineering team
Learn how to implement effective processes that empower engineering teams, balancing flexibility and adaptability to foster ownership, accountability, and a positive team culture.
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Cultivating ownership at any engineering level
Learn how engineering managers can cultivate employee ownership through curiosity, critical thinking, and empowering decision-making while aligning with company values for better performance.
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Spin it up, shut it down
Discover how to form impactful teams, drive progress, and gracefully shut them down, with a blueprint for creating and ending purposeful project teams effectively.
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A nudge in the right direction: How to give just enough help
Learn how to give just the right amount of help by applying insights from puzzle design. Discover practical techniques for offering effective guidance in any situation.
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Self-Awareness for Managers: Avoiding the antipatterns that block your team
Explore strategies to enhance self-awareness as a manager, unlock genuine feedback, and avoid decision-making traps that hinder your team’s performance and morale.
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Influencing Through Getting Your Carrots In a Row
In this talk, I will go through some of the common incentives and motivators as well as real examples that I’ve encountered.
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Growing engineering managers: Breaking down the monolith
This talk will delve into the intricacies of being an effective engineering manager by dissecting the multifaceted role into distinct components. Chiranjiv will explore technical excellence, people management, and delivery, breaking down each aspect into manageable units that can be employed for evaluation and strategic planning.