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

Honeycomb

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.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

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. It is a fast-changing profession that requires you to continuously adapt to keep up your game with all of the news trends.

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Intercom’s Director of Engineering on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

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. It’s a whole new ball game.

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Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

Gitprime

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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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. Marcus: What is that?

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My three hopes for 2020

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

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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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

Katie Womersley , Director of Engineering at Buffer, excels at discovering additional ways to support her team – it’s part of her philosophy of building a great company instead of just focusing on building a great product. The name of the game here is mental health. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.

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