Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. They want to help you know what they do and how they do it.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, your first team becomes those other engineering managers, directors, VPs, whatever it is, those peers, those all-important peer relationships that are so, so vital to cross-team, cross-silo and cross-departmental work. Now, I wasn’t just given a program of videos, given a personalized set of books to read.

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Tandem

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tandem’s custom software engineering team works collaboratively to create products for our clients. For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our engineering managers (Mercedes, Chris, and Kate) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate an inclusive workplace culture, and support each other along the way.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 25, 2019

But one of the things that we do is we that we do … we run some stuff called game days, and that basically means bringing together a team and talking about your architecture diagram and thinking of what could actually go wrong. ” Maybe have a run book. ” I went to go look at them, and ran what the run book said to do.

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Altexsoft

JULY 19, 2022

In the last few decades, we’ve seen a lot of architectural approaches to building data pipelines , changing one another and promising better and easier ways of deriving insights from information. It took three years for her book “Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale” to finally see the world in March 2022.

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Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

“It’s been an honor to try and craft a resource to support managers as they weather this kind of work. I want to try and reach as many of these folks as I can—I deeply believe this book is going to help them immensely.”. As engineers, we have that solid internal barometer of success,” she says.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 28, 2020

Ethics and Data Science is a short book that helps developers think through data problems, and includes a checklist that team members should revisit throughout the process. Some of the best lessons are captured in Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, and Ya Xu’s book: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments : A Practical Guide to A/B Testing.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Yes, they’re meeting to discuss an article about distributed systems, and as it turns out, it’s one of the most valuable ways for eng team members to have a say in architectural decisions. The CTO makes a call about a new system or tool, and the engineering managers work to implement the change across their teams.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Links: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference – Berlin, Germany. Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. This is the ideal conference for you if you want to learn everything related to software architecture. The conference covers approaches and technologies such as chaos engineering, serverless, and cloud, in addition to a range of leadership and business skills. to 5:00 p.m.,

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Marcus: Yeah, I actually… just this morning, I was reading Amy Edmondson’s book The Fearless Organization which is about psychological safety. Katie: In doing that, you role model to other leaders in the organization and people that have the sort of manager job description, that’s the behavior you want to see.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This wasn’t approved by the architecture board, Marcus: These kinds of things. ” So he can go out with my wife and balance my books and do my taxes, right? See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Marcus: It sure does, and that book has been so transformational.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you ask an engineer to show how they operate the application in production, they will likely show containers and operational dashboards—not unlike any other software service. Adapted from the book Effective Data Science Infrastructure. Software Architecture. What model architecture is most suitable for the task?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Camille Fournier discuss some points from her book, The Manager’s Path. They discuss the importance of time management and how to effectively manage employee turnover in a leadership role. Why was that book your book to write in that moment?

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Netlify

AUGUST 2, 2020

Truly though, Smashing Magazine’s migration off of WordPress and onto the Jamstack architecture proved to be one of the most monumental moves of its time. On Dec 07, 2017 Netlify Engineering Manager Shawn Erquhart wrote, “ Today we shipped Netlify CMS 1.0, First O’Reilly Jamstack Book.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So, the classic product lifecycle, which comes from Kotler and Keller years ago in a marketing book, is a curve that starts where the product is introduced, introduction. Now, also, I want to mention in addition to a bunch of resources, you can actually download a PDF version of the book from that site. I love that book.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). And then we agree that the things in design or architecture are really the next good ones up. Show Notes. The “Innovation” Misconception (15:36).

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Algolia

APRIL 1, 2019

This is the sixth article in a seven-part series of blogs that describe our most recent changes to the architecture and content of our documentation. Role of the Engineering and Product Managers. At Algolia, each team has one product manager and one engineering manager. This also helps with managing time.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). And then we agree that the things in design or architecture are really the next good ones up. Show Notes. The “Innovation” Misconception (15:36).

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

Our guests today are two superbly experienced front end engineers, and with several books, and many, many talks between them. We have Rebecca Murphey, senior technical lead at Indeed.com, and Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Century. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. Worked there.

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LeanEssays

DECEMBER 23, 2010

In 1988, Tom Gilb wrote the book Principles of Software Engineering Management, which is now in its 20th printing. One of the earliest advocates of evolutionary development, he has recently reiterated the elements of good software engineering in an article in Agile Record[2], from which I quote liberally: Principle 1.

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