- How to avoid bad startup culture
"A culture grows like plants in a garden. You cannot stop the life from growing, but you can decide how and where it grows. Left unattended, weeds will grow alongside the flowers. The key is recognising this and putting in the work to shape it." — Chris Parsons - Level up the whole party, not just the hero
Denise Yu shares invaluable advice on developing the skills of your team in this beautifuly illustrated talk - How do you celebrate wins with a distributed team?
Marissa Goldberg offers creative advice on doing this well - Let's stop making each other feel stupid
Clare Sudbery provides great advice for how you and your team to support one another better - Bring your team what it needs to thrive
Dan Abel highlights four things that your team will need to thrive. Does your team have enough of each of them? - Your process should be open source
Jade Rubick's advice on opening up and evolving your processes is excellent - Why can't we all just get along?
Emily Webber on separating roles from disciplines and comb-shaped people - Four ways to invest in junior engineers
Dileep Marway offers some great advice that applies to investing in your whole team to set them up for success (not just juniors) - Building bridges with difficult co-workers
Sally Lait gives some really excellent advice on how to improve difficult relationships at work - The behaviors that support junior developers tend to also be the ones that support healthy teams overall ❤️
Great guidance on how to support juniors and benefit everyone from Aisha Blake - Career Changers: enabling the huge untapped potential in developers from different backgrounds
Marcus Gardiner shares the value of hiring career changers and offers great advice on how to do this successfully - Let's stop making each other feel stupid
Clare Sudbery provides great advice for how you and your team to support one another better - Tech lead vs. engineering manager
Luca Rossi offers a good overview of some of the options available to you when structuring your teams. - Sizing engineering teams
Will Larson shares his thoughts and experiences on sizing engineering teams - Be in a band. Not an orchestra.
Matt Walton talks about the benefits of keeping teams small when you scale a high performing product organisation.
The shape of teams and what surrounds them
- Don't call it a platform
Sam Newman explains why creating a platform should NOT be the purpose of a "Platform Team" (and thus we shouldn't use that term)