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Learn practical strategies for engineering management during challenging times in this 20-minute conference talk from LDX3 London 2025. Navigate the complex balancing act of managing tight budgets, limited resources, and team well-being while facing pressure from leadership to cut costs and deliver results. Explore real-world approaches to making difficult trade-offs between cost optimization and ongoing work commitments without sacrificing team morale or customer satisfaction. Discover how to apply constraint satisfaction problem frameworks to guide decision-making under pressure and maintain engagement across all stakeholders. Gain actionable insights for protecting your team's well-being during uncertainty, including potential layoffs and resource constraints, while keeping operations running smoothly. Master techniques for managing the emotional aspects of leadership by building and maintaining your "emotional bank account" with team members, managers, and customers. Understand when and how to adjust your course when facing seemingly impossible decisions, and develop resilience strategies for surviving the ups and downs of engineering management in today's challenging landscape.
