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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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How OverOps Can be Used as a Learning Platform for Junior Developers

OverOps

Most of the development and operational energy is spent on creating positive customer perception and innovating in their market segment. Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Hiring for culture fit.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

Gitprime

In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By By default, our engineering organizations are wildly unsafe places for underrepresented minorities,” Jason Wong, Engineering Management Coach and Consultant, says. A Rubric for Evaluating Team Members’ Contributions to an Inclusive Culture.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. Agile requires management support.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

team autonomy, information flow, alignment between teams, support for taking risk, organisational culture), or functional in attaining goals (e.g. coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Motivation represents a positive energy, at the other end of the spectrum is we have burnout.