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

OCTOBER 24, 2022

At Apiumhub, we’re happy to announce that we are supporters of the Stretch Conference that will take place in Budapest on November 28-29, 2022 – If you are a leader, manager, business development manager, vice president, or simply interested in learning more about how to be a better leader, this conference is for you!

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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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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. that can help companies work more effectively.

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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. It’s a hobby.

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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. Everybody wants change, but nobody wants to be changed. Intuitively.

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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. How to prepare While I didn’t see myself on the path to VP when I joined Honeycomb, in hindsight I can see some traits that helped me become a fit for the role: Holistic thinking.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. By default, our engineering organizations are wildly unsafe places for underrepresented minorities,” Jason Wong, Engineering Management Coach and Consultant, says.

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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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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

How to Be Agile. Choose one of the rough edges, make an educated guess about how to improve, observe what happens, and repeat. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Delivering practices. What does it mean to “be Agile?”. Then customize.

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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.” Manager Skills vs. Director Skills.

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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. Giving and / or receiving feedback is easy, but knowing how to do it is not so easy. How to manage 20 years of legacy?

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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.” Manager Skills vs. Director Skills.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). In the next few posts, based on some of the new learnings covered in this post we will discuss how to create a high-performing team. Resources refer to characteristics that help to cope with demands (e.g.,

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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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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. To overcome common programming pitfalls, less experienced developers must be taught how to avoid them. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic. What happens if insufficient coaching is happening in your teams?

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance.

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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

Here’s how they apply to Agile: 1 Steven Smith has a good article on the Satir model at [link] that includes tips for helping team members through each stage. Everyone knows what’s expected of them and how to do their job. Help people understand how to do their job in the changed environment. Late Status Quo. Resistance.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. ” No, you learn to be a designer, or you learn to be an engineer. I didn’t come into this world knowing how to code or ride a bike or drive a car. Marcus: Most things I didn’t come in knowing how to do, so I had to learn them.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leaders should have an awareness of how to handle conflict. But knowing how to balance something that might be upfront versus something that might come in the side door, and having that as part of your conversation, this is the setup. ” And I do know how to help people fast. Scale and interdependent pairs. It’s fine.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

I took a course on accounting and they taught us something called the GAP, the Generally Accepted Accounting principles, and with that framed a set of guiding principles about how to think about accounting. And those are the folks who know best, not so much how to do things right, but they know best whether it’s working or not.

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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. June 24-28, 2019 — New York.

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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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Marcus: Inflicted on the people who had to then figure out how to use it. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. You as the CLM, the software engineering manager, you get a notion for what people are doing. Esther: Mmhmm. Esther: Mmhmm. Esther: Right.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Camille Fournier discuss some points from her book, The Manager’s Path. They discuss the importance of time management and how to effectively manage employee turnover in a leadership role. As a manager, you have to be on for all the hours you are in.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As a bare minimum, I can think of an engineering organisation of 6 Spotify like squads with each team consisting of 8-10 people including engineers (frontend/backend), BA, PO, and an agile coach. That's an overall engineering organisation of 55+ people including engineering leaders, chapter leads, etc.

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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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

It’s not always easy, but Rich believes that it can be done through a better understanding of how the two cultures work along with constant education and communication. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes. Rich: Sure.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

It’s not always easy, but Rich believes that it can be done through a better understanding of how the two cultures work along with constant education and communication. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes. Rich: Sure.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So, eventually, engineering management is going to start looking at moving people around different teams, getting them exposed to different areas of the product, so they become more domain experts in the entire product. So, then that relieves the product manager from being an overseer, and they can do the more strategic work, right?

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