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          <title>Communication: The most underrated engineering leadership skill</title>
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          <description>Why clear communication is a force multiplier for engineering teams and how to get better at it</description>
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          <title>AI-first: A way of working, not a tool rollout</title>
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          <description>Why AI-first works better as an operating model question than a technology decision</description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Ownership and accountability: Without micromanagement</title>
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          <description>How to give your team real ownership and hold a clear standard without inserting yourself into every decision</description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Growth in engineering teams</title>
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          <description>Developing people and teams through meaningful challenges, feedback and knowledge sharing</description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>How engineering leadership connects: Culture, direction and execution</title>
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          <description>Why engineering leadership works best when culture, direction and execution build on each other in the right order</description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Technical leadership: Setting direction without becoming a bottleneck</title>
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          <description>Creating clear principles for architecture, quality, technical risk and ways of working so the team can make good decisions</description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hiring: Building teams that last</title>
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          <description>Understanding team needs, designing structured interviews and selecting people who strengthen both technical and collaborative capability</description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Delivery and execution: Getting the right things done</title>
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          <description>Turning plans into outcomes through clarity, focus, risk management and sustainable quality</description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Stakeholder alignment: Moving in the same direction</title>
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          <description>Creating shared understanding among the people and groups who influence, request, build, review or depend on a piece of work</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Product thinking: Building the right thing</title>
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          <description>Understanding what value a product is meant to create for the user, the business and the organization</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Strategy &amp; prioritization: Choosing what matters most</title>
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          <description>Creating direction, making trade-offs explicit and building a shared understanding of how decisions are made</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Servant leadership</title>
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          <description>Leading by enabling, creating clarity and removing obstacles</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Quality &amp; reliability: Building speed that lasts</title>
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          <description>Building a delivery system where the product behaves sensibly in production</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Ways of working: How a team actually gets work done</title>
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          <description>A team&apos;s shared set of agreements for how you collaborate in practice</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Culture, psychological safety and team health</title>
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          <description>The cornerstone that makes delivery possible</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Effort vs. impact mapping for team initiatives</title>
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          <description>Aligning teams on what it takes to deliver value</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Coming up with team names</title>
          <link>https://refactorme.dev/articles/coming-up-with-team-names</link>
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          <description>Developing a team name that resonates</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Who does what and when?</title>
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          <description>Delegating action points</description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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