Healthy Code for Healthy Teams - Building Robust and Flexible Research Codebases
Explore the connection between healthy teams and code, focusing on improving codebase health through type annotations and runtime type checking for JAX arrays in research environments.
Capability, Vulnerability, Fallibility, and Flexibility - A Permission System for Team Trust
Explore four powerful ways to build a high-trust team culture: capability, vulnerability, fallibility, and flexibility. Learn how engineering managers can foster an environment where individuals thrive without fear.
Managing the Burnout Burndown
Practical strategies for tech leaders to manage stress, reduce burnout, and maintain productivity while navigating team dynamics, office politics, and an evolving software landscape.
Not Having Conflicts Is Not an Option - Let's Have Good Ones
Explore effective conflict resolution strategies for personal and professional growth. Learn to navigate tensions, foster innovation, and achieve positive outcomes through constructive disagreements.
Owning Your Experience - Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace
Learn to effectively communicate about mental health at work using experiential language, fostering a more inclusive and understanding environment while unlocking your team's full potential.
Empowering Soft Skills with Team Dynamics - Communication Skills
Enhance team performance through psychology-based techniques, active listening, and communication skills. Improve group dynamics, project management, and recruitment in engineering and DevOps teams.
Ring-fence the Chaos - When Technical Teams Meet Organisational Systems
Explore strategies for optimizing technical team structures, workflows, and organizational systems to enhance efficiency, productivity, and employee satisfaction in software development environments.
What Successful AI Teams Have in Common
Discover key characteristics of successful AI teams through the five phases of team development, from forming to adjourning, and enhance your team's performance.
Death and Life of Great Software Teams
Explore principles of vibrant cities applied to codebases, enhancing software team dynamics and productivity through innovative urban planning concepts.
A New Approach to Architecture Decisions - Rethinking the Role of Architects
Explore a revolutionary approach to software architecture decisions, emphasizing collaborative practices and dismantling traditional hierarchies.
How Context Switching Impacts Team Productivity
Explore the impact of context switching on developer productivity and learn strategies to manage interruptions and maintain focus for optimal team performance.
Feedback: You Don't Have to Be Bad to Get Better
Embrace feedback as a gift for continuous improvement in Agile and DevOps. Learn guidelines for giving and receiving effective feedback to foster a culture of growth and learning.
Dungeons and Developers: Uniting Experience Levels in Engineering Teams
Explore team dynamics through Dungeons & Dragons, identifying developer archetypes and creating a 'Developer Character Sheet' to highlight skills and talents in engineering teams.
Challenges Operationalizing Machine Learning and Solutions
Explore challenges and solutions in operationalizing ML systems. Learn about team dynamics, communication issues, and MLOps from an SRE/DevOps perspective. Gain practical guidance for adopting best practices in this evolving field.
To Cooperate or to Betray? Decoding the Tester's Dilemma
Explore game theory's Prisoner's Dilemma applied to software testing, examining strategic decisions, collaboration challenges, and long-term consequences. Gain insights for fostering trust and teamwork.
Unlock Your Team's Superpower - It's Not in Your Toolbox, It's in Your Head!
Discover strategies to foster psychological safety, enabling open communication and risk-taking in your team. Learn to create an environment where ideas flourish and mistakes become learning opportunities.
Team Velocity - Productive Teams at Scale
Discover strategies for scaling productive engineering teams and maintaining velocity as organizations grow, with insights from Atlassian's Head of Engineering for Growth.
Dungeons and Developers: Uniting Experience Levels in Engineering Teams
Explore team dynamics through Dungeons & Dragons, identifying developer archetypes and creating 'Developer Character Sheets' to highlight individual strengths and foster diverse, effective engineering teams.
Managing the Burnout Burndown
Learn strategies to manage stress and reduce burnout in tech leadership roles. Gain tools for balancing workload, team dynamics, and industry changes while maintaining productivity and well-being.
Critical Decision Making
Discover a pilot's framework for critical decision-making in high-pressure situations, applicable to software development and team leadership. Includes interactive exercise.
Software Architecture, Team Topologies and Complexity Science
Exploring relationships between team topologies, software architecture, and complexity science to understand high-performing software organizations and their emergent phenomena.