There is a yawning gap opening up between the best and the rest — the elite top few percent of engineering teams are making incredible gains year over year in reliability and lack of technical drag forces, while the bottom 50% are losing ground. Take an engineer out of an elite-performing team and place them in the bottom 50%, and they become subpar too; take an engineer out of a mediocre team and embed them in an elite team, and they are pulling their weight within the year. I will share with you everything I know — everything that went into building a high-performing team at Honeycomb.
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Harnessing the power of storytelling to become a better leader
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Crafting a mission and vision for your team
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The importance of happiness
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Creating an inclusive team culture in times of change
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In it for the long haul: long-term team building
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Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you
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Eliminating hero culture in software engineering teams
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LeadDev lessons to live by: five things I’ve learned from five years of LeadDev
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Creating an inclusive engineering culture
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Effective meeting facilitation techniques
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Engineering teams work better remote-first
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Navigating engineering team friction
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Creating learning workshops for developers
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How not to burn out your monitoring team
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Cloning yourself isn't an option
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Building happier engineering teams
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