Gitprime

JUNE 11, 2019

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

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Honeycomb

APRIL 4, 2023

Almost everyone who reached out mentioned: They didn’t know career coaching was a thing The idea of timeboxing a role change experiment (like going from engineer to manager) for two years was bang-on Let’s dive deeper into these observations. Career coaches can help you get unstuck and recognize you need a change.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Before Loopin, Varma was a product lead at Venture Highway at Upgrad, Pareek was a product lead at Samsung and Dudi worked as an engineering manager at Freshworks. The startup, backed by Venture Highway and angel investors, was founded in April 2021 by college friends Anurag Varma, Parth Pareek and Mehul Dudi.

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Joel Crabb

MARCH 18, 2018

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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Joel Crabb

MARCH 18, 2018

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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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

This book is ideal whether you’re a new manager, a mentor, or a more experienced leader looking for fresh advice. Pick up this book and learn how to become a better manager and leader in your organization. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp.

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NeverFriday

JULY 18, 2019

I wrote two articles that have been published that list interview questions you can ask when interviewing engineering manager and senior software engineer candidates. 10+ Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions. 10+ Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 10, 2022

Managers facilitate a lot of decision-making and routing of people and data and things, and it’s very easy to slip into making all decisions rather than empowering people to make them. But if you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Stretch conference is a 2-day international conference that brings together community leaders and managers who are interested in sharing stories, hands-on solutions, and exploring new trends and ideas to become a better version of themselves. What are the topics of the talks?

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James Shore

JANUARY 18, 2021

I often saw issues where the engineering manager (EM) and product manager (PM) didn’t work well together, and these teams tended to do quite poorly. Jade Rubick has an interesting experience report about the Single-Threaded Owner model of organization on his blog.

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Talk with any engineering manager who regrets leaving coding and you’ll understand that management is not for everyone. I’m their coach,” he says.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Managing engineering managers is not all just rainbows and unicorns, right?

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By By default, our engineering organizations are wildly unsafe places for underrepresented minorities,” Jason Wong, Engineering Management Coach and Consultant, says. Those outcomes are unfortunately real whether we intend them or not.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I believe this is a super common and normal thing but have had at least one great coach insist that it is not, so I’m putting it on the list.

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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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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. Marcus: What is that?

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.” This is an astonishing claim.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.” This is an astonishing claim.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Historically, the role of passing down the wisdom that comes from developer experience has been delegated to the system architects, lead developers and engineering managers. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Resources refer to characteristics that help to cope with demands (e.g., team autonomy, information flow, alignment between teams, support for taking risk, organisational culture), or functional in attaining goals (e.g.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Your feedback generates bugs in production by Eli Maruenda Joya – Engineering Manager at Holaluz.com, Inma Navas Peña – Software Engineer at MANGO. Workshop) by Abraham Vallez Martín – Team Coach at Voxel Group. Communication in organizations is vital.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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Tandem

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our design managers (Julia and Chris) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate a healthy design culture, and support each other along the way. Interested in our engineering managers’ perspectives? What is Tandem’s approach to management?

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Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

DECEMBER 22, 2019

First, I’m exited to tell you that I’ve joined Heroku/Salesforce as an Engineering Manager. I’ve been wanting to “get back in the game” of engineering management for a while, and am excited to put my consulting experience to work in new contexts. In 2020, I want these patterns to continue. I appreciate you.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 23, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. As an engineering manager, you’re concerned with your team delivering the best products they can, as efficiently as they can.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. One resource that they provide to all employees is Joyable , a digital therapy solution that offers access to personal coaches. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. So these days I’m an engineering manager, managing developers, helping teams deliver, meet their goals.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 63,303 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 2 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 13 TwitterGrader Score : 100 Lead By Example : John Baldoni is a seasoned leadership pro and one of only a few leadership coaches that I endorse. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). I’m not an MBA.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. Focus team-level managers on managing their work system rather than individuals and tasks. See the “Change Team Management Style” section.). Ensure each team has a coach who can help them learn to be an effective, jelled team.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. 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. Staff Engineer is equivalent to a manager who is a director.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Delivering practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Optimizing practices. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

GeePaw, I’ve been interviewing engineering managers for one of my clients, helping them hire and we always have a beginning talk about salary. Now, these engineering managers are special in my opinion because they always, always used to be engineers, and they’re not that far from it.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Run concurrently with DeveloperWeek 2019 , DevExec World is a conference organized specifically for tech executives, engineering managers, and lead developers. Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I do a lot of coaching with senior leaders and managers to help them keep their cool. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. You as this ELM, the software engineering manager, you get a notion for what people are doing. We all get triggered. It’s fine.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain.

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