Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This, of course, means that we have to change. In order to architect modular platforms a CIO needs revamped approaches to hiring in order to get top-flight engineers. Managing The Transformation In order to be successful, a CIO has to first come to terms with the scope of the transformation itself.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 2, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Engineering teams are a creature apart from other teams in an organization. Engineers need time to become experts — to master their work. They need purpose.”.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Of course, anyone is welcome to work here! In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By But it is, of course, more than worth it.”.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 28, 2015

These two things together – learning that I needed more influence myself and that it was better to engage employees in improving their own jobs, led me to doing a lot of research and ultimately enrolling in an MBA program with a focus on leadership and change management.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, your first team becomes those other engineering managers, directors, VPs, whatever it is, those peers, those all-important peer relationships that are so, so vital to cross-team, cross-silo and cross-departmental work. So of course this was very exciting to me. He was the software engineering manager.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Going from being an IC to being a manager is a really big transition. Rich: Scary.

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DevOps.com

JULY 29, 2021

And do it all faster, of course. Every app development need seems to ultimately fall to developers to fulfill. Build in security. Shift testing left. Provide users cooler, more customized experiences at cloud speed and scale. How do we accommodate the rising expectations without burning out developers?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. Leaders vs. Managers. Setting expectations for leadership growth. Perception management and vulnerability. Katie’s journey into management.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 23, 2018

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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2019

So what defines partnership at the workplace and how you use it to hire the people who can create great partnerships and have a long-lasting impact on the course of your company? I find the ability to form meaningful and impactful partnership a lot more important skill than stakeholdership.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Jason Wong discuss how one size does not fit all in leadership. They dive into how the traditional leadership model isn’t working well and how it could be changed to become more effective. The traditional leadership model isn’t working well.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 28, 2020

Work with senior management to design and align on appropriate metrics, and make sure that executive leadership agrees and consents to using them before starting your experiments and developing your AI products in earnest. Augmenting AI Product Management with Technical Leadership. Deployment.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

There are many reasons people choose to leave their jobs and in this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus dissects the top reasons software professional decide to seek other employment and ways to prevent future turnover from occurring. Managers can affect turnover. Unsatisfied with leadership of senior management.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, GeePaw Hill, discuss how the doubling rate in the software industry has resulted in a complete lack of trade discipline. Intro: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 15, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. GitPrime has sponsored the show, not just because they’re fantastic people, but because they really believe that leadership in engineering is about people. Transcript.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Are you a resilient manager? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Lara Hogan discuss what it means to be a resilient manager. She will discuss some effective management skills and thought processes. She will also introduce us to the idea of the manager Voltron. Episode 33. ??Are

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy high performing software teams. Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Jennifer Jones-Patulli, discuss how people tend to think about conflict and how they handle it. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy high-performing software teams. Episode 29. ?Is

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Esther Derby discuss change. Change is a core aspect of leaders’ and managers’ jobs. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Episode 27.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As Kentik’s backend engineering manager, I know this has kept our team very busy. One way our leadership supports us is by providing really awesome benefits. Of course, we have all the standard stuff: 401k, flexible vacation, full health insurance, and fully remote positions, which is really amazing.

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LaunchDarkly

JULY 17, 2020

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

On today’s episode of Programming Leadership, we dive into what is needed to establish safety in your own organization. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Marcus: Welcome to Programming Leadership.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The conference covers approaches and technologies such as chaos engineering, serverless, and cloud, in addition to a range of leadership and business skills. You can also register separately to take a training course from February 3rd to 4th. These immersive courses run for two full days, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,

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scruminc

JANUARY 26, 2022

Of course, John Deere makes far more than combines. Its iconic logo appears on everything from tillers and tractors to marine engines, motor graders, and the John Deere Gator utility vehicle. This new leadership structure ensures both Powers and Strief are laser-focused on their specific areas of expertise.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It taught him about different management styles, problem-solving, and more. But most employees don’t get management training, which can cause problems down the road. Marcus and Will discuss this, plus what it takes to handle leadership roles. Most coders don’t aspire to be managers. Welcome to Programming Leadership.

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CircleCI

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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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. Episode 31. ?In Show Notes. Transcript.

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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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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. The duties of management remain largely static as an organization scales — engineering managers can and should be responsible for technical management, execution and planning, coaching and development, team health, cultural impact, communication, and overall leadership of a scrum team.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Making sure that leadership teams are in the loop and aligned and ready to answer questions before the rest of the individual contributors get the information has been super helpful for us.”. Of course, communication strategies within a distributed team are shaped largely by time zones. How do you deal with time zone differences?

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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. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Programming Leadership: [link]. Marcus: Of course.

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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. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Programming Leadership: [link]. Marcus: Of course.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How do we improve in the area of product management? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Ellen Gottesdiener, President of EBG Consulting, discuss ways companies can better oversee the development and lifecycle of a product in its entirety. Welcome to Programming Leadership. Oracle, of course.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To be a modern manager, you must manage yourself first. In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Johanna Rothman discuss how you must learn to manage yourself to be effective at managing other people. Marcus: Welcome to this episode of Programming Leadership. Episode 34. Transcript.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Don Gray enlighten listeners regarding the world of software development, the reasons for implementing software changes and why it’s not as easy as people may think. Marcus: Welcome to the show, programming leadership. Episode 25. HSDinstitute.org. Transcript.

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