CircleCI
APRIL 29, 2020
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?
InfoQ Culture Methods
JUNE 30, 2020
The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities.
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James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture.
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. This is good.
Gitprime
DECEMBER 31, 2018
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.
Gitprime
OCTOBER 15, 2019
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. Being a remote manager is possible,” Kammah offers in conclusion. Then, be there to support them.”.
Gitprime
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Managers can hold space and build a culture where mental health is prioritized, and being frank about promoting it sure helps. But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.
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