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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When you’ve spent your career mastering complex technologies, stepping into a leadership role might not be the first item on your wish list. I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Their personality type, education, training, and work experience, all support that.

CTO Coach

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

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 Onboarding and training your management team.

Engineering Management

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

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. Two (equal) leadership paths. Let’s be perfectly honest: managing discussions about mental health with coworkers isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

Culture

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A First Team Mindset

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. I got trained in a cohort of people that went through together, and that became my first team.

Training

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Great Managers Empower Through Intrinsic Motivation – A Conversation With the Founder of CTO Connection

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.”.

Engineering

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Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

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 Everyone is equal! We’re color blind!

Technical Review

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

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.

Engineering

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

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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Rules of Change with Esther Derby

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.

Programming

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

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. Don’t expect agreement to come simply.

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Turnover: “It’s not me, it’s you”

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.

Software Review

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A New Leadership Model with Jason Wong

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.

Leadership

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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

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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Lessons Learned on the Path to Managing with Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall

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.

Weak Development Team

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The Importance of Trust and Communication with Tim Ottinger

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.

Software Review

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

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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Adaptive And Resilient Supply Chain Management: How John Deere Uses Scrum To Create Supply Chain Solutions In The Midst Of Disruption

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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Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At Stripe, guest Will Larson received his first official management training by an employer. 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. Most coders don’t aspire to be managers.

Weak Development Team

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

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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Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier

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.

Technical Review

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

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?

Engineering

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

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]. Episode 48.

Weak Development Team

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

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]. Episode 48.

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Putting the Emotion Into EQ with Etienne de Bruin

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

Emotional intelligence is essential to good leadership, but many CTO’s stress the importance of IQ instead. To move from contributor to manager, it’s a good idea to invest the time to explore EQ, as well as personality profiles to better understand how to manage people. Managing expectations. Real leadership.

CTO Coach

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

Agile

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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

A First Team Mindset

Great Managers Empower Through Intrinsic Motivation – A Conversation With the Founder of CTO Connection

Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Rules of Change with Esther Derby

Bringing an AI Product to Market

Turnover: “It’s not me, it’s you”

A New Leadership Model with Jason Wong

Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Lessons Learned on the Path to Managing with Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall

The Importance of Trust and Communication with Tim Ottinger

The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

Adaptive And Resilient Supply Chain Management: How John Deere Uses Scrum To Create Supply Chain Solutions In The Midst Of Disruption

Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier

Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Putting the Emotion Into EQ with Etienne de Bruin

AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

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