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6 signs an IT manager is struggling — and how to help

CIO

Middle managers need strong mentors and a network of colleagues who understand their problems and can offer advice based on their own experience when things get tough, so the manager can learn how to cope, get back on track, and thrive. But it starts with identifying a middle manager who needs an assist and then stepping in to intervene.

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

Honeycomb

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” It’s lovely when managers can play this role for their teams, but we also have to remember that they are humans with their own problems who are not trained as therapists or even coaches.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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. Transcript.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

We had a good chat earlier this week, which you can read here: Image Credits: Rethink Robotics TC: What does your day-to-day look like as a CTO? They operate in a very different way from how humans walk and they pump a lot of energy into the system when there’s a slight imbalance. They’re mistaking performance for competence.

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Working With Legacy Code. Is it safe in Agile Environments?

Apiumhub

A lot of companies, want to apply Agile Methodologies in their projects, but at the beginning of most agile coaching projects, we find that our client applications are not properly covered with any kind of automated tests. Automated acceptance test Same test a user would do against our application, but performed by a machine.

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The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. It’s not just a one and done, it’s not an annual event where I now have to ask you what you think of my performance. Transcript. Marcus: Welcome to the show.

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Executive Round Table with Kent Barner and Jay Reed

TechFides Blog

As a CIO for 25+ years he was the internal advisor to C-Level Executives of high growth entrepreneurial organizations. At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. Most recently at Behringer’s peak he delivered CIO services to 15 organizations concurrently.