CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But how do you prepare others on your team for this next career step? Because if you don’t do the upfront work to prepare your team to take the helm, you won’t have anyone to fill those seats when you want to move up — or step down. I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

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.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy high performing software teams. Episode 15. Show Notes. Transcript.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. And it doesn’t matter, it kind of in some ways you know in that stage it doesn’t matter how good you are or how bad you are at managing. @AttackGecko.

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Then he went on to talk about a zombie haunted pipeline that kept developers awake late into the night. I worked on that team for about seven years. First he spoke about how Google Ads went fully offline for 90+ minutes.

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