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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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Finding the right kind of opportunities for your sponsee
How to match your sponsee’s opportunities to their career goals
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How to build multiplatform skills in your mobile app team
Upskilling your mobile developers across Android and iOS
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‘What do you mean I’m not perfect’? How to be on the receiving end of constructive feedback
How to turn negative feedback into a positive
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Bottom up org change and evolution
Sebastian Duque explains how Intercom has been successful at empowering engineers to drive organizational change.
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Death and life of great software teams
Vaidehi Joshi looks at how we can apply Jane Jacobs principles of a vibrant city to a vibrant codebase.
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Paying down management debt without burning out
Frankie Nicoletti gives practical advice for triaging, prioritizing, and taking effective action to pay down your management debt while honoring your work/life balance.
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The Art & Science of Decision Buy-In
John Riviello examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) through important decision-making.
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Strategies for focusing on the most important thing
Ryan Harter advises on the tools to help you strategically combat anti-patterns in prioritization to consistently execute the most important projects.
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Demystifying the Re-Org
Milena Tala looks at how you can identify that your team requires a reorganisation at Leadev Together 2022
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Firing like a human
Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda talks about the tricky firing process and how to get it right. Learn about the safeguards that allow you to make this tough choice confidently and compassionately.
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Managing compassionately through underperformance
You’ve identified that a person is underperforming. What comes next? Senior Engineering Manager Adrienne Lowe will identify what you should do to help manage someone out of underperformance