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Delivering constructive feedback: the do's and don'ts

CircleCI

The do’s and don’ts of constructive feedback. Giving and receiving feedback is essential to creating a culture where team members feel valued, safe, and connected to each other. Sfeedback is optimal for positive feedback, as the sessions are too quick to provide constructive feedback in a way that maintains psychological safety.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

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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Tandem Roundtable: Design Leadership at Tandem

Tandem

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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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

team autonomy, information flow, alignment between teams, support for taking risk, organisational culture), or functional in attaining goals (e.g. coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Resources refer to characteristics that help to cope with demands (e.g.,

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The Mentor/Manager Distinction at Asana

Gitprime

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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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Cultures approach conflict differently. And when we’re moving through it, it can be constructive or destructive, depending on how we choose to interact. My undergrad was actually in cultural anthropology. Jennifer: Cultures approach conflict very differently. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. If you want to be Agile, you need management support. Construct a team room for each team. Counterintuively.

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