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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.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24.

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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

Honeycomb

After we performed our regular incident reviews, our CTO, Charity Majors , suggested a meta-incident review where we could step back, consider multiple incidents at the same time, look for underlying patterns, and reflect on where we might need to change our systems or practices. The meta-review.

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

UruIT

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Marcus: You know I hear so many people talk about The Manager’s Path as being just foundational to them and I just can’t help but start with a question just really broadly, what inspired that book? Camille: Yeah, so I am the head platform engineering at Two Sigma, which is a quantitative hedge fund here in New York City.

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The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. It’s not just a one and done, it’s not an annual event where I now have to ask you what you think of my performance.

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The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. It’s not just a one and done, it’s not an annual event where I now have to ask you what you think of my performance.