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Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager

To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.

Mark Allen
on Jun 27, 2025
Culture & Methods

Developer Joy: a Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity

In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, they explain how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break.

Trisha Gee Holly Cummins
on Jun 04, 2025
Culture & Methods

How to Scale Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level

This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.

Thiago Ghisi
on May 19, 2025
Culture & Methods

From Code to Charisma: Emotional Mastery for Tech Leaders

In tech, leadership is about more than managing projects—it's about influencing teams and driving collaboration. This article explores how understanding the brain’s states—rational, emotional, and survival—can enhance decision-making and innovation. By mastering emotional regulation, trust, and psychological safety, leaders can empower teams to thrive and unlock their full potential.

Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
on May 13, 2025
Culture & Methods

InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2025

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space.

Shane Hastie Charity Majors Ben Linders Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith
on May 09, 2025
Culture & Methods

Virtual Panel: Increasing Engineering Productivity, Develop Software Fast and in a Sustainable Way

Companies need to balance between rapid feature development and long-term product sustainability. Engineers are taking on more left-shifted, cognitive load as their features intersect with user privacy, security, accessibility, and regulations. We'll discuss approaches, philosophies, and techniques that companies and products applied to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development.

Ben Linders Jennifer Bevan Sergii Gorbachov Jenna Butler
on Mar 05, 2025
Culture & Methods

Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

Ben Linders Joy Ebertz Pablo Fredrikson Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
on Dec 11, 2024
Culture & Methods

Jump into the Demoscene: Where Logic, Creativity, and Artistic Expression Merge

The demoscene is a vibrant, creative subculture where you can use mathematics, algorithms, creativity, and a wee bit of chaos to express yourself. In this article, I want to inspire you to grab the opportunity to get your voice and vision on the table, and show you that the demoscene is not only for mathematical wizards.

Espen Sande Larsen
on Oct 30, 2024
Culture & Methods

How to Build and Foster High-Performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers

Engineering managers can enable software teams to learn and improve, and help them move problems and impediments out of the way. In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.

Ben Linders Olga Kubassova Michael Gray Hannah Foxwell
on May 10, 2024
Culture & Methods

InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering.

Shane Hastie Jutta Eckstein Ben Linders Susan McIntosh Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith
on Apr 09, 2024
Culture & Methods

Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling Developers to Become (More) Creative

As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team, but that's easier said than done. This article provides advice on how can you help amplify the creative thinking skills of your software development colleagues. We examine how different levels of creativity influence creativity and strategies to encourage creativity.

Wouter Groeneveld
on Feb 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

Generative AI and Organizational Resilience

Generative AI will profoundly transform communication and information sharing over the next decade, but the change will be uneven across industries and roles. Organizations should empower workers to use AI augmentation thoughtfully, while building literacy on capabilities and limits. A balanced, conscientious integration, using iterations and customer feedback, will produce the best outcomes.

Alex Cruikshank
on Jan 23, 2024