Removing the barrier between security and engineering
How to create alignment between security and engineering teams for better overall performance

Episodes
Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity


Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation

Supporting, influencing, and leading as a security practitioner

Six ways security teams can build better relationships with engineering

Everything you need to know from 'Removing the barrier between security and engineering’
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Using observability to detangle and understand production
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Documenting and communicating architectural decisions
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Principles for managing product quality

Designing software to maximize developer productivity

Engineering teams work better remote-first

How to lead your engineering team through a period of change
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Travel through time and break free from rigid working cultures


How synergy between product and engineering can solve the problem of software estimation

Business as usual vs. innovation: how to get the balance right

Engage your engineers by giving them 10% time

Creating an effective process for on-call engineering teams

Planning for black swan events: how to create an effective panic team

Guiding your engineering team to self-organisation

Taking a fresh look at setting objectives and key results for your engineering team

Engaging your engineering team to achieve high performance faster
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Effective meeting facilitation techniques

The race to Mach 2.0 at scale
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The benefits of delivering imperfect software

Unlocking success: the components of high-performing teams

Observability that matters (and avoiding the kind that doesn't)
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Clear, concise and consistent: how to communicate and prioritize risks from the engineering team to the wider organization

Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects

Driving architecture alignment across a fully-distributed engineering workforce


Using an 'architectural North Star' to align your engineering team with your organization

Bridging the gap between engineering and customer success teams

How to affect change without losing your job

Handling security issues as an engineering team

Writing effective technical documentation

Breaking down silos for better collaboration

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Strategies for making impossible decisions

Building blocks for architecture governance with autonomous teams

Scaling performance at the scale of Slack

Learning from incidents: from 'what went wrong?' to 'what went right?'

Applying software engineering practices to improve people management

Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams

Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence

Creating efficient, accurate, software estimations
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What makes a good process?

Scaling up sustainably through better processes

A process is never done
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Imperfect Processes: Navigating the fuzzier parts


Hypothesis-driven development

A resignation can be an opportunity

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The challenges of introducing product experimentation


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Team Topologies: Manuel Pais in conversation
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Engineering with empathy
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Building stronger teams with AB testing
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Establishing experimentation as a core part of your project workflow
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Accessibility from the start

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Adopting an experimentation philosophy

Preventing process deadlock

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The power of visibility to unblock collaboration
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Development metrics you should use (but don’t)
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How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind

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Tell better stories with observability
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Observability at scale

How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage

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Assign problems (not work) to your teams to build extraordinary products

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Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation

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Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team

Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too

How to avoid alert fatigue

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The toolbox of engineering metrics for distributed teams

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The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team

Minimizing risks in code deployment


Strategies for creating cultures of innovation in engineering teams

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Observability and your business
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Sending gifts to future-you

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How to measure and improve success in your engineering team

Embedding observability into your engineering culture
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Feature management: a low-risk way to deliver software faster
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Learnings from 'Observability in action'

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Understanding your team’s velocity

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Learnings from ‘Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love’

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Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'

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Recognizing and removing project bottlenecks


Managing expectations on time estimates with probabilistic forecasting
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Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision

Designing cultural transformations

Using Agile Techniques to Build a More Inclusive Team

CI/CD For Humans: Empathy as the Foundation for Effective Deployments

Collaborative debugging on engineering teams
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Building a culture of continuous delivery

Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems

How to Design Systems and Processes Teams Actually Follow

Creating code reviews that reflect your team's culture
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Crafting fun and productive Sprint retrospectives

Reclaiming the Spirit of Agile

Tackling Big, Impossible Projects

Engineering retrospectives - Look back, move forward
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Failing smarter and learning faster in engineering

How to estimate as as an engineering leader
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Seven key considerations in early development

Creating processes that don't impede autonomy

Working backwards from the customer

Dealing with overheads as an engineering leader
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Adapting testing for engineers

How performance is everyone's job

Minimum Viable Business Continuity Management
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On Postponing Lead Dev New York and London
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Designing effective OKRs


Taking risks in production
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Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Estimating your way to success

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The art of self-organizing engineering teams

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What is observability and why should you care?

How to avoid the growing pains of communicating at scale

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A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector

Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot

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Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it

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To build, or to buy, that is the question

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Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'

Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects

How to run a great incident post-mortem

The importance of effective status reports

The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics

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Optimizing micro-feedback loops in engineering
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Running efficient, effective, and engaging retrospectives


Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process

Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay
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How to have meetings that don't suck (as much)

Making the perfect meeting
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Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid

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A thorough team guide to RFCs
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Abandoning the build: when investing is the only way to scale

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Using observability to accelerate the Engineering Flywheel

Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day

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Building a culture of quality in engineering teams

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The long tail of product features
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Making your meetings more effective
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Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision


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What engineering leaders should be measuring

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Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production

Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want

Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design
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140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
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The search for the best solution: third party or open source?
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Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy


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Write things down: transparent culture in minutes
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Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions
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How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution
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Leveling up your machine learning product by taking the leap to third-party
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Why the first two weeks are essential when building great software products

Finding your acorn: How to drive the change you want as an engineering leader

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Preventing burnout while shipping faster
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When planning long-term, favor accuracy over precision

Every decision creates a policy

How to break out of the thread of doom

Decision Making for Software Engineering Teams: Francesco Strazzullo in conversation


The culture of process

Outages are coming for you

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How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics
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Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company

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How to foster data-driven tech leadership
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The difficulties of observability
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Thoughts on kickstarting observability

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How enterprise organizations can respond when engineering goes wrong

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How keeping accessibility front of mind benefits everyone

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Working across teams to champion accessibility

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Are daily standups still adding value?

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Breaking down knowledge silos between engineering teams


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How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups

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Why people are at the center of systems

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Making the most of observability
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Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide
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Running more effective standups


Creating open source projects for your community
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Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org

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Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results
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Technologists: how to make decisions for your organization and our society

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The rise of OpenTelemetry

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An introduction to issue management

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Learnings from ‘The engineering leader’s guide to data-driven leadership’
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Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO

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An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Delegation is a superpower

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Overcoming security hurdles to push engineering velocity


A vision for a social model of open source

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How Netflix, Teachers Pay Teachers, Honeycomb, and more used observability in 2021


How to cultivate a great engineering process
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Top 10 ideas to take into 2022
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Five steps for making data-informed decisions

Getting big changes implemented at the staff+ level

Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?

Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency

Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs

How to drive decisions as an engineering leader

Balancing delivery speed with engineering health

Understanding the role of a Distinguished engineer


Running your first internal hackathon

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How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving
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Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team

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Who is responsible for open source security?

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A guide to open source for the traditional enterprise

Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team

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Reporting effectively to the board

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Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals

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Four ways to empower your team through data

How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity

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Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points

How to run a progressive ERG


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Three steps for managing toil as you scale

Effective Remote Work: James Stanier in conversation


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Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly

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What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?

Just Work: Kim Scott in conversation


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Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale
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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team

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Reporting to the board as an engineering leader: Secrets to success

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Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together

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Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting


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Why on-call pain is a sociotechnical problem
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Four engineering leadership trends you need to know

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How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
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Engineering Management for the Rest of Us: Sarah Drasner in conversation


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How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles

Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams: Heidi Helfand in conversation
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How to communicate the state of your open source project

Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.

Born-left security: The new approach taking over shift-left

Why the most advanced technology solution isn’t always the correct one
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What is the business case for observability?
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Want to accelerate incident response? Empower customer service teams.

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Optimizing the time you and your team spend on hiring


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How to create sustainable on-call rotations

What is a developer experience team?

Bringing together a social model of open source

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How to reduce stress for on-call engineering teams

Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews

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Why traditional observability tools aren't cutting it anymore

Why business context is important for technical decision-making

How to build an effective code review process for your team

How to make plans for an uncertain future

Navigating complexity as an engineering leader

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Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps

When, not if: The playbook method for managing risk

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How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process

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On-call is a necessary function for any organization

How to break the “get me everything” cycle

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Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty

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Documentation is broken

Context switching strategies to preserve your focus

DevOps for engineering managers

Managing complex organizational change

How engineering leaders can better organize their day

How engineering leaders can promote urgency in teams

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Running human-focused postmortems

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Practicing engineering transparency

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Removing roadblocks to faster iteration

How to build a strong culture with ensemble programming

How principal testers can improve company processes

How to protect your calendar against unnecessary meetings

How to plan your next product feature using a six-week cycle

Platform engineering for engineering managers

The role of developer advocacy in driving innovation

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What recent data tells us about developer productivity and team health

Four key steps to take for an effective project handoff

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Why elite dev teams focus on pull-request metrics

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Building a more effective DevSecOps culture

Incorporating organizational values into your agile process

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Why motivation and self-efficacy drives thriving software teams

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Keep your delivery in balance with these metrics pairings

Growing an experiment-driven quality culture

How to get leadership buy-in on your tech strategy

Focus on outcomes over outputs

Building a prioritization framework

Introducing processes where none exist

If agile isn’t dead, why is it still not working?

Using high-quality questions to unlock innovation

How AI changes engineering management

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What the top 10% of dev teams look like in 2023

Managing the chaos of context switching

Building an onboarding plan for engineering managers

3 strategies for driving organizational change

Setting goals and using metrics that motivate

A prioritization framework for uncertain times

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Why support and belonging are the final key to developer thriving

How to design (and listen to) a developer survey

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Working with leadership to plan for a successful new year

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Overcoming the challenges of annual budget planning


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5 best practices for annual budget planning

Introducing new processes to your team

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity

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Improve planning and ideation with divergent thinking

Communicating quickly, effectively, and inclusively

Is agile still the way forward?
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Using experiments to bring security into your software development life cycle

Mastering large-scale migrations

What is developer experience? Your route to better productivity

Navigating competing priorities as an engineer

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Stop working on islands as engineers

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How feature measurement promotes productivity and happiness

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Coding with clarity to improve developer experience

Introducing a career framework as your organization scales

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