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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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Ask Maria: How can I fix a team that’s broken?
A team in disarray is difficult to work in. Here are some ways to go about fixing it.
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How to manage mental health in the tech industry
Mental health is a priority for everyone. Here are some ways you can make sure it remains so in the workplace.
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Finding the right distance as a manager
How close is too close with your direct report? Find the right balance to help build trust and empower your team.
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Effectively managing junior developers on remote teams
Managing junior engineers is a loaded task. Add in the fact you’re doing it from afar and you’ve got difficult terrain to navigate.
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Amazon’s Werner Vogels on the 7 laws of cost-effective engineering
2023 was rife with layoffs against a backdrop of tough economic circumstances for many. What does Amazon’s Werner Vogels think?
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Ask Mathias: How can I increase velocity when I’m already at full speed?
My team and I are already going as fast as we can. I can’t see how we have the capacity to increase velocity. Can you help?
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How to build trust in your team
Trust is often confused with getting along, which can impede team progress and personal career growth. Here’s how you can introduce trust into your teams successfully.
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How to maintain team morale during a downturn
Learning to lead despite feeling like you have no control of your surroundings can help you upgrade your management style.
Top Engineering Management Videos
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Managing a passionate team: How to change the world without burning out
Lexi Galantino discusses how team members who feel passionate about their work are an excellent asset to a team, but over time even passion, met with an endless backlog of important tasks, can slip into burnout.
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Mascot driven development: Building a high performing team through application ownership & identity
Luis Vega shares his experience of changing roles from a senior software engineer to a managerial position, the path for building a team to own and revamp unpopular applications and expand the portfolio with new applications, the establishment of a team culture that emphasizes product ownership, unparalleled customer support, and the branding of each application.
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Systemic leadership for software teams
Francisco Trindade provides a practical perspective on using systemic leadership to drive a software engineering team. Engineering managers will gain a high-level perspective and in-depth insight into how to focus on systems to manage their teams better, from theory to practical solutions.
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Breaking the burnout cycle in engineering teams
Shelly Stuart talks hustle culture – where stress, hard work, and long hours are considered the key to success – has long been pervasive in the tech industry.
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Meeting your people where they are
Amanda Sopkin breaks down some of the big ways in which people are different: communication styles, ways they prefer to receive appreciation, and attitudes towards career progression.
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Managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change
David Yee talks about managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change
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Leading Snowflakes: Oren Ellenbogen in conversation
Understand how to lead unique individuals and improve your overall management skills
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Engineering your feedback: A (quick) guide to success
As managers and leaders, giving effective feedback is crucial in order to help engineers on our teams grow and thrive in their profession. In this talk, I’ll share 3 golden rules when it comes to providing feedback that is effective.