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Patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment.
Explore the DORA findings using an interactive diagram: click any item to learn more about why it matters, how to measure it, and how to improve.
Engineers can win influence by aligning technical projects with executive priorities, using high-visibility work and a ready backlog to ride political waves instead of scheming.
Constraints are a leader's secret weapon: by deliberately limiting scope, resources, or time you force teams to prioritize, cut waste and spark unexpected innovation.
Align hiring, career ladders, and processes with the values you actually live, not the aspirational ones, to build a culture that speeds delivery and keeps teams happy.
Tech leads stop costly fights by setting clear decision rules and modeling humility early, turning disagreement into focused collaboration and preventing hidden conflicts from blowing up.
Engineers are silently burning out under a relentless optimization culture; the piece shows how high-performers mask fatigue and why leaders must watch for hidden signals to keep teams sustainable.
Technical leaders must own the disconnect caused by AI hype, return-to-office mandates and layoffs, openly back company policies while privately validating team concerns and using small flexibilities to keep morale alive.
Strategy Choice Chartering lets leaders turn high-level strategy into concrete actions; this piece shows three real Rotman examples-revamping an EMBA program, creating a new financial framework, and turning an alumni magazine into a revenue-generating brand.
Quantifies how poor managers cost millions in disengagement, turnover, stress and lost productivity, proving that targeted manager training delivers measurable ROI and protects against the Great Resignation.
Technical leaders must treat SaaS and open-source vendors as supply-chain risks; Dorian outlines a stress-test checklist and why brand-safety, security, and governance matter before you lock in critical services.
Provides bite-size web accessibility concepts, quick wins for developers, and testing tips framed as coffee metaphors, helping teams embed accessibility early and improve product quality.
A 15+ hour video course that gives frontend developers a step-by-step, actionable curriculum for building accessible web applications, cutting through scattered docs and confusion.
Tech Leaders Launchpad teaches new engineering managers practical leadership frameworks, confidence-building techniques, and career-growth tools through video lessons, live Q&A, and worksheets designed by tech leaders.
Small, precise adjustments that respect a team's environment can double engagement and boost delivery without destabilizing the organization.
Future-back thinking pushes leaders to envision disruptive possibilities beyond incremental present-forward fixes, using a three-step process to craft vision, translate it into strategy, and embed execution today.
Good product metrics clearly show acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention trends, letting leaders spot real growth levers and avoid vanity numbers.
Urgent product requests are leadership auditions; pause, re-scope, communicate, and recover to protect credibility and relationships instead of scrambling.
Prioritization must stay hard, forcing leaders to juggle ambition, current capacity, and new investment, otherwise they fall into low-impact traps.
High performers often know they excel but lack external signals; reverse imposter syndrome explains this perception gap and offers concrete steps to make your work visible and recognized.
Tool sprawl wastes millions annually and robs engineers of 6-15 hours weekly; mapping the ecosystem and consolidating tools restores focus, cuts context-switching, and boosts team performance.
Storytelling beats raw data when trying to sway executives; mastering narrative lets technical leaders translate complex analysis into compelling decisions.
A former CTO shares how emotional stability, transparent doubt, output-focused goals, founder communities and tackling the toughest tasks first helped survive the roller-coaster of early-stage startup life.
A curated preview of the most compelling leadership books launching in January 2026, highlighting practical frameworks for productivity, AI-driven leadership, project-centric organizations, creativity, and excellence.
Comment-driven development treats AI-generated comments as a strategic tool, turning noisy docstrings into high-signal context that reduces technical debt and improves code comprehension for engineering teams.
Managers think engineers can stay productive in short bursts, but meetings turn deep work into shallow tasks, killing flow and increasing errors-especially as AI tools tempt constant context switching.
Three real cases show how engineers who refuse illegal requests protect themselves, while staying can lead to criminal risk-providing concrete steps for technical leaders facing fraud or unethical directives.
Team Topologies shows how to design team structures and interaction modes that enable fast flow of change, cutting handoffs and bottlenecks for engineering leaders.
Clear delegation levels prevent mismatched expectations during incidents by defining responder autonomy, timeline, and required accuracy.
Unplanned work signals deeper process issues; the article offers concrete tactics-absorb, break up, replace, buffer, improve prioritization and quality-to keep sprint flow and delivery on track.
Engineering process is tangible and easy to focus on, which is exactly why it's the wrong place to spend your energy as an engineering manager
Tech leaders must prioritize business outcomes over pure tech output, using bottleneck thinking and cross-functional influence to drive real company momentum.
AI coding tools are turning junior developer tasks into automated work, prompting hiring cuts and faster turnaround expectations, forcing leaders to rethink onboarding and skill development.
Engineering leaders still wrestle with choosing effective team performance metrics, and DORA metrics haven't become the standard, while generative AI tools are pushing upskilling and prompting skills to the top of the agenda.
High-velocity engineering teams win by automating friction, building secure foundations, and measuring outcomes, proving speed doesn't require technical debt.
Showing mistakes as normal facts and adding low-friction rituals lets teams keep psychological safety high and turn errors into fast learning, not anxiety.
Treating engineers as fungible headcount leads to broken roadmaps, hiring limits, and high attrition; recognizing individual impact improves planning, budgeting, and retention.
Good technical leadership requires mastering workplace politics - building relationships, framing proposals for stakeholders, and influencing decisions rather than hoping merit alone wins.
Over-engineering adds needless complexity, costs, and slows delivery; the article shows why teams fall into this trap and how simple, fit-for-purpose architecture wins.
Neglecting software upkeep leads to costly rebuilds; regular maintenance-like oil changes-keeps systems running, reduces technical debt, and avoids downtime.
Atomic Habits shows how tiny 1% improvements and system design, not lofty goals, drive lasting personal and team performance.
The Mind the Gap Model groups nine common obstacles to large-scale change into clarity, ability, and willingness, giving leaders a practical checklist to diagnose and address each barrier.
Authority gradients let senior voices drown out vital concerns, leading teams to repeat mistakes; the piece shows how aviation crew resource management and AI co-pilots can restore balanced dialogue.
Gen AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT can cut developer task time by up to 80%, but require clear prompts, context, and human oversight to avoid hallucinations.
Clean Code Handbook shows how disciplined coding habits cut technical debt, speed delivery, and make onboarding new engineers painless, giving leaders a concrete roadmap for higher quality software.
A fictional tale that shows how DevOps principles transform a chaotic IT department into a high-performing engine, teaching leaders how to break silos, prioritize work, and deliver business value.
Accelerate shows how elite software teams deliver faster, more reliably, and with higher quality by measuring lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change fail rate, linking these metrics to business performance.
Continuous Delivery shows how to design automated pipelines that let teams ship reliable software quickly, turning deployment into a routine, low-risk activity.
The stdlib collection is a community-curated library of practical, immediately useful, battle-tested resources for technical leadership. Each resource is designed to be immediately applicable to your role. New resources are added based on community feedback and emerging best practices.