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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews

TechCrunch

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. The end of the year is looming and with it one of your most important tasks as a manager. Another example is that of an engineer who is dipping their toe into multiple projects. Share on Twitter.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

DORA arose from an academic research team at Google, which between 2013 and 2017 surveyed over 31,000 engineers on DevOps practices to identify the key differentiators between “low performers” and “elite performers.” DORA metrics aren’t the end-all be-all, of course.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

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 Those are good signals,” Nightingale says.

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What remains to be seen is if it’ll have a lasting impact on how we hire engineering talent, similar to the move to remote hiring post-pandemic. Gone is the massive workforce that came to a workplace boasting three-course meals in the cafeteria and needed yoga rooms and sleeping pods to function.

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Interview with Annie Freeman, Green Software Expert

Apiumhub

Our first interview was with Paola Annis , engineering manager at Microsoft and founding member of the Green Software Foundation , and now we had the pleasure of having an interview with Annie Freeman. At Apiumhub , we have started a series of interviews with green software experts to raise awareness about green software.

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An Engineer’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

Honeycomb

Power has a way of flowing towards people managers over time, no matter how many times you repeat “management is not a promotion, it’s a career change.” Managers are privy to performance reviews and other personal information that they need to do their jobs, and they tend to be more practiced communicators.