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
DECEMBER 31, 2018
With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.
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James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
(I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.” Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.
Gitprime
OCTOBER 15, 2019
In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Leading remote engineering teams comes with a suite of challenges. He takes his phone for a walk while calling his direct report, whom he encourages to talk a walk as well.
Gitprime
JUNE 11, 2019
She took her experience and co-founded Wherewithall , where she offers one-on-one coaching services for managers, executives, and individual contributors growing into leadership, and consulting services to support engineering organizations. As engineers, we have that solid internal barometer of success,” she says. “We
James Shore
JANUARY 18, 2021
Jade Rubick has an interesting experience report about the Single-Threaded Owner model of organization on his blog. I often saw issues where the engineering manager (EM) and product manager (PM) didn’t work well together, and these teams tended to do quite poorly. The whole experience report is worth reading.
Tandem
OCTOBER 6, 2020
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. What is Tandem’s approach to management? How do you support your direct reports’ growth?
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