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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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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Distributed teams. Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Throughout his career, Bjorn has worked with many different types of teams, from fully co-located to fully distributed. New Relic’s developers all worked together, on several floors of an office building in downtown Portland. The N+1 Management Problem.

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Distributed teams. Bjorn is an experienced software leader. Throughout his career, Bjorn has worked with many different types of teams, from fully co-located to fully distributed. New Relic’s developers all worked together, on several floors of an office building in downtown Portland. The N+1 Management Problem.

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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 started my career as a full stack developer and stayed as a developer for almost 10 plus years.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. I am VP of Engineering over there.

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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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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Then he went on to talk about a zombie haunted pipeline that kept developers awake late into the night. I worked on that team for about seven years. First he spoke about how Google Ads went fully offline for 90+ minutes.