Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns
DevOps.com
APRIL 3, 2023
We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding.
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DevOps.com
APRIL 3, 2023
We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding.
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.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JANUARY 30, 2023
He is currently head of engineering at Product Hunt. Mike “Batman” Cohen is the Founder of Wayne Technologies which is a Sourcing-as-a-Service company. There is still a raging war in Europe, the economy is a stretch team, and for the first time since the dot-com, bubble tech is not out of this.
Gitprime
DECEMBER 31, 2018
GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Starting up with the “tree structure”.
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. How should teams that are spread across time zones coordinate their schedules?
Federico Cargnelutti
MAY 13, 2019
Here are my notes: Management Know what’s expected of your team and what the business priorities are. Set a clear strategy and vision for the team, and ensure it’s understood by everyone. Find out strengths and weaknesses of your team, also their aspirations. Share the company’s vision.
Federico Cargnelutti
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Here are my notes: Management Know what’s expected of your team and what the business priorities are. Set a clear strategy and vision for the team, and ensure it’s understood by everyone. Find out strengths and weaknesses of your team, also their aspirations. Share the company’s vision.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JUNE 7, 2022
When you need to scale your business, you look at the recruiting teams to bring in the talent needed for success. In many ways, data-driven recruitment empowers recruiters to make educated opinions and change their hiring strategy (if needed) through the long-winding process of developer recruitment. Cost To Hire (CTH).
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. When you’re running a startup company, things just work differently than they do in a more established one. Engineers need time to focus—and to connect.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JULY 28, 2020
The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Product managers for AI must satisfy these same responsibilities, tuned for the AI lifecycle.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
AUGUST 13, 2020
demand financial management and human capital management software vendor. She is also a Board Member of Women in Localization, a leading professional organization with a mission to create a strong place for women to develop their careers in localization and provide mentorship. Welcome, Monica! I never looked back. I was shocked.
Accenture
APRIL 16, 2018
He had come on a ten-day trip to India to select an Indian offshore company to be his Agile provider for software development services. He had already met with many top software providers to learn about their ability to deliver high-quality software and demonstrate Agile software development capabilities.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
JANUARY 22, 2020
The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
JANUARY 22, 2020
The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
MARCH 4, 2020
What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. Defining Thick Culture, Thin Culture, and the Frame (4:01).
Code Simplicity
APRIL 4, 2017
Often, people who work on engineering productivity either come into conflict with the developers they are attempting to help, or spend a long time working on some project that ends up not mattering because nobody actually cares about it. Your management will try to dissuade you from doing your job, or even try to get rid of you.
OverOps
APRIL 7, 2019
How OverOps Can be Used as a Learning Platform for Junior Developers [link] pic.twitter.com/xerkcfvGur. Companies define what functionality an application offers and that becomes part of the marketing strategy for the application. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). NEW POST ?? OverOps (@overopshq) April 8, 2019.
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. That’s our sprint-by-sprint purpose in a nutshell.
Seerene
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Having begun as an Engineer with my company, Seerene, I transitioned from this role to a position as Engineering Manager some two months ago. Just as any individual would when they’re about to start in a new position, I started familiarising myself with blog posts and other literature written by seasoned managers.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
MARCH 27, 2023
We understand the frustration that comes with sifting through hundreds of resumes, all with the added pressure of trying to find the perfect candidate for your team. You’re running a team, managing projects, and making sure everything is running smoothly. What’s with the disconnect between recruiters and hiring managers?
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
JULY 9, 2020
In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.
Abhishek Tiwari
JULY 20, 2019
When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.
LaunchDarkly
JUNE 12, 2020
On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
JULY 9, 2020
In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.
Mobilunity
JANUARY 4, 2023
Nearly 47% of respondents said they would be employing a DevOps or DevSecOps approach to software development in 2022. Software development and IT operations are combined in the process known as “DevOps.” They will do automated system tests using their knowledge to find weaknesses and get rid of potential threats.
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. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Admitting you’re afraid and need help and being vulnerable is a sign of strength not a weakness. @13:48. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. ” No, the poor man just walked into the bathroom.
LaunchDarkly
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
She shared about nightmares in employee onboarding for software engineers and strategies for avoiding them. “So, the story of the too big, too fast team. On a dark and stormy night, a team was gifted with ten new hires, which is such a good gift right? It’s your company’s fault. A too big, too fast team.
Gitprime
APRIL 13, 2019
When startups are first setting out, the initial team is small and usually solving relatively discrete (albeit central) problems. But at scale, the quantity and size of the problems grow larger than a single manageable team can handle. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. Marcus: Do you see, do you see companies that are actively striving or doing a good job in this way? Marcus: We may not see behind the curtain at most companies.
Honeycomb
JULY 14, 2023
Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” My priority number one had been to “run engineering well.” Early in my career, I had the experience of working for a company where everything felt broken but it wasn’t clear why.
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Everybody has the capacity to develop compassion; it’s about how we direct our energy, time, and effort. @21:29. Environments and working culture need to change in order to allow more compassion. @27:28. So I started by doing workshops at tech companies on emotional intelligence, and I still do that. Transcript.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MARCH 24, 2020
John Myles White , data scientist and engineering manager at Facebook, wrote: “The biggest risk I see with data science projects is that analyzing data per se is generally a bad thing. Re-analyzing existing data is often very bad.” No other supervision is required!”
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