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Unlock your engineering team's potential. Actionable advice on process, culture, and performance to build high-performing, sustainable teams.

Smooth Transitions: Overcoming Resistance to Change

Smooth Transitions: Overcoming Resistance to Change

Learn why your best engineers resist change and how to turn skeptics into champions when implementing new processes, tools, or structures.

Meeting Mastery: How Strategic Scheduling Drives Engineering Team Performance

Meeting Mastery: How Strategic Scheduling Drives Engineering Team Performance

Learn how software development teams can reclaim 40% of their productive time through strategic meeting design, with proven practices from Google, Amazon, and GitLab.

Scale Smart: How Company Strategy Should Drive Your Engineering Headcount

Scale Smart: How Company Strategy Should Drive Your Engineering Headcount

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most engineering leaders are flying blind when it comes to team sizing. GitHub runs with engineering at 37% of total headcou...

Onboarding Bootcamp: Setting New Developers Up for Success in 30 Days

Onboarding Bootcamp: Setting New Developers Up for Success in 30 Days

A structured 30-day onboarding program can transform new developers from confused newcomers to confident contributors. Here's your blueprint for dramatically shortening ramp-up time while boosting retention.

Effective Engineering OKRs: Aligning Tech Goals with Business Outcomes

Effective Engineering OKRs: Aligning Tech Goals with Business Outcomes

Learn how to craft engineering OKRs that bridge the gap between technical excellence and business impact. Plus, get practical examples and a template to transform your team's goal-setting approach.

Top 5 Engineering Leadership Challenges in 2025

Top 5 Engineering Leadership Challenges in 2025

An in-depth analysis of the most pressing challenges facing engineering leaders in 2025, from talent gaps to workflow visibility, with actionable strategies to address each one.