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Comfort is killing your Engineering Team
The counterintuitive discovery that transformed my plateaued team into an innovation powerhouse
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Stephane Moreau
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Your team hates code reviews
What would you do?
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Stephane Moreau
Evolve these 5 engineering skills to succeed as a manager
Debugging, code reviews, continuous deployments, refactoring, and pair programming.
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Stephane Moreau
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Tech Debt is piling up but leadership doesn't care
What would you do?
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Stephane Moreau
Just monitoring is not enough
Observability-Driven Development might be what your team needs.
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Stephane Moreau
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You have too many direct reports
What would you do?
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Stephane Moreau
The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me
How a tough manager changed my approach to leadership (and why I’m grateful now)
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Stephane Moreau
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An important project is late and execs are losing patience
What would you do?
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Stephane Moreau

February 2025

Measuring developer productivity
What I learned from years of chasing the "right" way to measure developer productivity
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Stephane Moreau
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Engineering teams that spark unexpected innovation
The Power of Structured Serendipity and the Hidden Org Chart
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Stephane Moreau
How to win the Product vs. Engineering prioritisation battle
Use the same scoring system for all projects and watch your backlog finally make sense.
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Stephane Moreau
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When to stay, or leave a job as an Engineering Manager
Why I walked away from £200K and why you should think twice before saying Yes.
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Stephane Moreau
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