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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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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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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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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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.

Engineering 61

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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.

Programming 40

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Links: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference – Berlin, Germany. Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. November 4-7, 2019. Transcript.

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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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

How should we think about change? Don: Well, so in some ways, change happens, like producing software. You have an idea of what you’d like to have at the end, but you’re not really sure how to get there. There’s one guy who knows how to run the build system. So the external coaches got the boot.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

A challenge for technical managers is actually knowing how to do the work very well. @30:14. And maybe it’s just me, but if you’re listening and you’re thinking, “Wow, like maybe I just don’t know how to be vulnerable, and it makes only me worried,” you’re not alone. Gitprime.com.

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