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How to rebuild trust after layoffs
Layoffs happen, it’s how you deal with them as a leader that matters.
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What the end of Section 174 means for software developer hiring
New US law brings in significant tax changes, which could change the face of hiring.
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How to communicate mandates (even if you disagree with them)
You may not agree with a mandate, but that shouldn’t affect the way you communicate it to your team.
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10 things nobody tells you about OKRs
OKRs are a simple – and useful – sounding idea, but in practice, there are all kinds of troubles people get bogged down in. Here are ten, rarely mentioned, things that can help.
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
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.
October 15 & 16, 2025
Agendas for New York events are live! 🙌
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
It’s time to pay off your management debt
Explore management debt’s impact on organizations, uncovering inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Learn actionable strategies to identify, track, and eliminate management debt for sustainable growth.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Managing authentically across levels
Learn how to manage engineers at all levels with practical tips for adapting your style to support growth and foster a thriving, high-performing engineering team.
Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback
Discover strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust and openness. Learn science-backed techniques to make feedback constructive, approachable, and growth-focused, helping teams unlock their full potential.
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
Agendas for New York events are live!
Lineup includes Addy Osmani, Kevin Goldsmith, Robin Bonatesta, and more…
New York • October 15 & 16, 2025
More about Engineering Management
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5 ways onboarding can accelerate engineering efficiency
Here are five effective ways to onboard new engineers and get them more productive, sooner.
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The art of giving and receiving feedback as a leader
Providing feedback is a skill. Like all skills, it is one that you can build upon and grow as part of your leadership toolkit.
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An introvert’s guide to engineering management
As an introvert, there might be elements of engineering management that you find challenging. Here are some tricks to help you.
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How to better organize your time as a new engineering manager
If you’re a newly appointed engineering manager struggling to keep track of your own time, here are some tips that may help you out.
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The essential tools for software engineering managers
Management requires a whole new set of tools to those you use as a developer. Here are more than 20 essential tools for engineering managers, from managing your meeting notes, to tracking candidates.
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How to make performance reviews more productive
Receiving a performance review can be very stressful. Planning ahead and narrowing your focus can help you use the feedback in your review productively.
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How leaders can better prioritize personal to-dos
Stepping into a leadership role invites a whole host of new demands. In this article, learn how you can better prioritize them.
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Getting your reports promoted
As a new manager, you may want to push some reports into more senior positions. Here’s how to go about it.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Understanding reorgs: What they are, why they happen, and how to navigate them
Strategy pivots, hiring freezes, and even layoffs are all leading to large reorganizations within remaining teams.
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Evolving your core management skills: From IC to VP
This talk, will go through the core skills any leader needs evolve, as you go first from directly building software, to building teams that build software, to building leaders that build teams that build software.
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Leveling-up your leadership team
In this talk IBK will share how you, as a leader, can take a topic and work on it with your team. IBK will also share an example topic and the format that he shared with senior leaders at Shopify.
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Lower your stress and your team’s stress by being ready for turnover
John Young covers specific, actionable strategies to prepare for turnover – roles and responsibilities, documentation practices, anti-patterns to avoid, and even “chaos monkey” style games – that you can use immediately to make life better both for you and for your team.
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Combating the confidence gap: Case studies in tech recruiting
Maryam Jahanshahi discusses how studies of the confidence gap impact candidate pools based on millions of recruiting outcomes, describing three specific contexts where we’ve seen the confidence gap manifest.
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Setting up your team for success during your extended absence
Nisarga Markandaiah shares the things you can do to ensure success for your team while you are away, as more and more companies offer longer than before parental leaves or sabbaticals.
