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Virtual Panel: How Software Engineers and Team Leaders Can Excel with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is impacting the individual work of software developers, how professionals work together in teams, and how software teams are being managed. In this panel, we'll discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping software development, and what mindset and skills are required for software developers and engineering leaders to become adaptable and resilient in the age of AI.
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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.
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How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking
This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers. Whether you're an established Staff+ engineer or someone with aspirations to grow into this role, this article offers the tools, perspectives, and insights you need to navigate your journey to greater influence and impact.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leading Tech People or Remaining a Software Engineer: What to Choose? Panel Discussion
In this virtual panel, we explore what made people decide to become a leader and how they did it, and we'll find out if we really have to leave tech forever or if there's a way back into engineering.
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Getting Technical Decision Buy-In Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Making large, important technical decisions is a critical aspect of a senior individual contributor's role. This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework developed in the 1970s, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small.
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Multiplying Engineering Productivity in the Face of Constant Change
Leaders know that they need to support organizational efficiency, but how they do that can vary based on the situation and context of the organization. Learning how to utilize a few key leadership frameworks in certain environments can help maintain the appropriate level of support, urgency, and independence when situations shift.