Technical leadership changes the decisions you own.
Five-week live certification cohorts for senior engineers, architects, engineering managers, and directors responsible for technical direction or how engineering teams work.
Leadership decisions move beyond implementation.
As responsibility grows, the difficult calls shift from solving the technical problem yourself to setting direction, deciding how work should be organized, creating the conditions for execution, and being accountable for what happens next.
Engineering Leadership focuses on technical strategy, execution, measurement, accountability, and the long-term cost of what gets built.
High-Performing Teams focuses on how teams are structured and run, including delivery flow, AI teammates, engineering metrics, and the operating model around the work.
Which Leadership program fits the work you own?
Technical strategy and team operating design are different responsibilities, and each programme takes one of them.
See the next available dates, facilitators, schedules, technical focus, and price for each intake.
Shaping how engineering work gets done. (Berlin time)
Team design, delivery flow, AI roles on the team, engineering metrics, and target operating models.
Shaping how engineering work gets done. (Berlin time)
Team design, delivery flow, AI roles on the team, engineering metrics, and target operating models.
Leadership decisions move beyond implementation.
As responsibility grows, the difficult calls shift from solving the technical problem yourself to setting direction, deciding how work should be organized, creating the conditions for execution, and being accountable for what happens next.
Engineering Leadership focuses on technical strategy, execution, measurement, accountability, and the long-term cost of what gets built.
High-Performing Teams focuses on how teams are structured and run, including delivery flow, AI teammates, engineering metrics, and the operating model around the work.
Who leads the cohorts?
Each facilitator stays with their cohort across the five weeks, so later sessions can build on what participants tried between sessions.
Twenty years across software architecture, engineering management, and technology leadership. Solutions Architect, Engineering Manager, and CTO. Co-host of the InfoQ Podcast and GOTO Unscripted.
How the five weeks work.
Selected QCon and InfoQ material provides a starting point. The live sessions are where participants examine the approach, challenge assumptions, and hear how the same decision changes in other organizations.
Between sessions, participants put the thinking into practice against a decision they already own. The next session builds on what happened.
- 5 weeks
- One cohort, start to finish
- 4 live hours
- Each week
- Time-boxed
- Work between sessions
- Capstone
- In week five
Compare your assumptions with people working elsewhere.
Your experience is shaped by the systems and organizations you have worked in. The cohort puts your reasoning alongside experienced practitioners dealing with different architecture, scale, regulation, incentives, and team structures.
The useful comparison is where an approach transfers, where it changes, and why. You still own the decision and what happens next in your environment.
Finish with work you can point to.
Build a target operating model showing how team structure, delivery, AI, roles, and responsibilities fit together.
- 01 Team structure
- 02 Delivery
- 03 AI
- 04 Roles
- 05 Responsibilities
What kind of certification is this?
Each Leadership program awards a program-specific InfoQ certification. It is earned through consistent attendance and active participation in the live sessions, plus successful completion of the program capstone.
- Type
- Live, cohort-based certification
- Earned through
- Attendance + active participation + successful capstone
- Credential
- Program-specific InfoQ certification
- Share
- Add the certification to your LinkedIn profile
Who are InfoQ Leadership certification programs for?
Designed for experienced software practitioners who already carry technical or team-level responsibility and can connect the cohort to work they currently own.
Typical participants include Senior, Staff, Lead, and Principal Engineers, Software Architects, Technical Leads, Engineering Managers, Engineering Directors, VPs of Engineering, and other senior technical leaders.
The programs are designed for experienced practitioners, generally with at least five years of professional experience.
Start from QCon and InfoQ technical material.
Selected QCon talks and InfoQ technical material provide the starting point for each week. The cohort is where participants examine those ideas against different systems, organizations, and constraints.
Leadership topic FAQ
Which Leadership program should I choose? + −
Choose based on the responsibility you need to move forward.
- Engineering Leadership
- Technical strategy, execution, measurement, accountability, and the long-term operating cost of technical decisions.
- High-Performing Teams
- Team structure, delivery flow, AI teammates, engineering metrics, and the team’s target operating model.
Are these management courses? + −
They are designed for experienced technical practitioners carrying leadership responsibility. Engineering managers are part of the audience, but so are Staff+ engineers, architects, and technical leads.
Why a cohort instead of self-paced leadership material? + −
Leadership decisions depend heavily on organizational context. The cohort gives you recurring time to examine an approach with people working under different constraints, put the thinking into practice, and return with what happened.
How much time should I allow? + −
Plan for four live hours each week. The exact session pattern varies by program. There is also time-boxed application work between sessions.
Are the sessions recorded? + −
No. The sessions are not recorded so participants can discuss current work and organizational context more openly.
How do I earn the certification? + −
Certification is based on consistent participation in the live cohort and successful completion of the program’s capstone.
Can my company pay by invoice? + −
Invoice payment is available subject to the current payment deadlines and checkout terms.
Can I get help making the case internally? + −
Yes. Use the Convince Your Manager page to copy a guided AI prompt or start from a ready-to-edit email template. Choose the cohort you are considering so the current dates, price, facilitator, time commitment, and capstone are included.
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Every cohort runs live online with a small cross-company group. Sessions are not recorded.