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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

Meetings are essential to helping teams, especially remote or hybrid ones, stay in touch. But too many meetings can become unproductive, as shared information and action items get buried underneath all the other stuff workers have to do. In short, the knowledge you created is disconnected from the meeting,” Varma said.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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Managing From Afar: How This Engineering Manager Tackles the Challenges of Remote Work

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Leading remote engineering teams comes with a suite of challenges. Practices for inclusive remote meetings. It’s about the format of the meeting.”.

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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.

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A Digital Ecommerce Transformation – Lucky to Have a Coach – Part XVIII

Joel Crabb

I had about 18 months of pure engineering management at United Health Group, having a team of about 25 writing online wellness programs. However, that management position didn’t end well, and I learned much and more about politics at large companies. I’m going to say, as a manager, I was very rough. Goto Part XIX

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A Digital Ecommerce Transformation – Lucky to Have a Coach – Part XVIII

Joel Crabb

I had about 18 months of pure engineering management at United Health Group, having a team of about 25 writing online wellness programs. However, that management position didn’t end well, and I learned much and more about politics at large companies. I’m going to say, as a manager, I was very rough. Goto Part XIX.

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

She took her experience and co-founded Wherewithall , where she offers one-on-one coaching services for managers, executives, and individual contributors growing into leadership, and consulting services to support engineering organizations. As engineers, we have that solid internal barometer of success,” she says. “We