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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).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. This is good.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager. Mantle, Ron Lichty Mantle.

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

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. Charity Majors CTO at Honeycomb.io.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This is your host Arbaz and today I have with me Monica Bajaj, the Senior Director of Engineering at Workday, an American on?demand demand financial management and human capital management software vendor. I recently joined Workday as a Senior Director of Engineering, building their Community Platform.

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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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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.”

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.”