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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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. In retrospect, the most interesting transition along the whole journey for me was probably moving from managing only ICs to also managing managers.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. To move to new zones—for example, if a team is fluent in the Focusing zone, and wants to add Delivering or Optimizing fluency— kaikaku is still the best approach. See the “Change Team Management Style” section.). Make a formal proposal.

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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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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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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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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Also, he will present code examples, mostly in Java and Scala. Understand your systems with OpenTelemetry by Carolina Zhou Lin – Software Engineer at Voxel Group and Xavier Belloso – Senior Software Engineer en baVel – Voxel Group. Workshop) by Abraham Vallez Martín – Team Coach at Voxel Group.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To move to new zones—for example, if a team is fluent in the Focusing zone, and wants to add Delivering or Optimizing fluency— kaikaku is still the best approach. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Delivering practices. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

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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 - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Glossier’s a great example of having built up their customer base and become a really large, really successful company almost entirely through Instagram. You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. Staff Engineer is equivalent to a manager who is a director.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies.

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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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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). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

Like I’m trying to understand, give us an example of thick culture and thin culture. GeePaw: So an example of that in our trade is this, there’s lots of procedures out there. The GAP is a perfect example of… it’s a worldview, and accountants have it. Thick culture. Well, you begged me there.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. When you were little, did you want to be a manager? November 4-7, 2019.

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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). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I can’t think of an example where there’s not, where there may be one, but there’s always someone who is not going to benefit from the change, who is going to perceive it as loss, who is going to be inconvenienced, maybe permanently, maybe temporarily. Do you have any concrete examples? Did that example help?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

At least I find, right, where it’s… the nice thing sometimes about being a manager is that you just kind of come into work and react and that’s like your whole job is reacting and knowing how to react, the appropriate level of reaction. Marcus: Right. Marcus: Perhaps. Sort of an evergreen question, right? Marcus: Right.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

When my example was meant… I liked the new name of the company we came up with here, Marcus, AngrySoft. Marcus: Mm-hmm (affirmative), which is the product of keeping your money safe or securing your future, because I really don’t care about another thing that looks like accounting in my life for a banking system example.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

” Do you have an example of words that might help? I do a lot of coaching with senior leaders and managers to help them keep their cool. That’s a very simplistic kind of physiological example of being triggered. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I really wish I had made some of these up, but for example, the bad manager day that’s, I tell the story of the very worst manager day I ever had, where I was… I blamed somebody who came into work late. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

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