Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
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.
Gitprime
JUNE 11, 2019
Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering).
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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.
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.
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. In your conversations, starting with that first manager, talk about the challenges your organization faces with software development. Make a formal proposal.
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.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. In your conversations, starting with that first manager, talk about the challenges your organization faces with software development. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. They may try to recruit you.
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