It’s impossible to step into technical leadership fully prepared. The most successful technical leaders are always supplementing their own hard-earned expertise with the wisdom of others, drawing on the experiences of their peers and predecessors.
Over the past year, we’ve been speaking to engineering leaders from a range of industries, seeking out their advice on everything from fostering a strong company culture to helping your developers avoid burnout.
Now, for the first time ever, we’re making that collective knowledge available in one place.
It’s our inaugural Leadership Development Month – a December packed with resources for everyone from seasoned VPs to soon-to-be Engineering Managers. All of this year’s webinars and virtual events are now available on-demand, supplemented with blog posts and e-books, all aimed at helping you hone your leadership skills and build a high-performance engineering team.
Check out the materials below, and start preparing to be a stronger leader in 2021. There’s more to come, so be sure to subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for updates.
Data-Driven Leadership
- Roger Deetz, VP of Technology at Springbuk – Using Metrics to Reinforce Company Culture [Fireside Chat]
- Ale Paredes, VP of Engineering at Code Climate – Managing with Metrics [Fireside Chat]
- Juan Pablo Buriticá, Head of Engineering, LatAm at Stripe – Delivery Metrics [Fireside Chat]
- Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly – Continuous Improvement [Fireside Chat]
- The Moneyball Approach to Engineering Metrics [Blog Post]
- The Essential Data for Leading a Remote Engineering Team [Blog Post]
- How Our VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level [Blog Post]
- So You Read Accelerate. Now What? [Blog Post]
Cycle Time: The Most Critical Metric
- The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Cycle Time [E-book]
- Perspectives on Cycle Time [Round Table]
- What is Cycle Time and Why Does it Matter? [Blog Post]
- The Virtuous Circle of Software Delivery [Blog Post]
- The Single Greatest Lever in Shortening Cycle Time [Blog Post]
- How to Stop Code Review from Bottlenecking Shipping [Blog Post]
- Keep Code Review from Wasting Everyone’s Time [Blog Post]
- The Last Mile to True Continuous Delivery [Blog Post]
Communicating with Executive Stakeholders
- What Your Engineering Board Slides are Missing [Webinar]
- How to Build a Leaner Process and Boost Your Engineering ROI [Webinar]
- Engineering Metrics are Business Metrics [Blog Post]
- Startup CEOs: Here’s Good News You Can Include in Your Q4 Board Deck [Blog Post]
- How to Choose Software Development KPIs for Your Board Deck [Blog Post]
- Hire People or Optimize Processes: A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Engineering Leaders [Blog Post]
- Hire or Optimize [Calculator]
Running Effective Meetings
- Running Remote Meetings with Data [Webinar]
- How 5 Minutes of Preparation Can Finally Make Standup Meetings Productive [Blog Post]
- Why Retro Action Items Fail (And What to Do About It) [Blog Post]
Leading High-Performance Teams
- Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer – Be a Leader and a Manager [Fireside Chat]
- Dr. Aneika Simmons, PhD, and Anjuan Simmons, Technology Translator – Preventing and Addressing Burnout [Fireside Chat]
- Measure and Improve How You Innovate [Round Table]
- Developer360: Building a High-Performance Team with Data [Webinar]
- You Can’t Set Effective Engineering Goals Without Data [Blog Post]
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