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How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers

DevOps.com

Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those innate skills and attributes. But simply having the skills doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy being an engineering manager.

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Article: Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling Developers To Become (More) Creative

InfoQ Culture Methods

As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team, but that's easier said than done. This article provides advice on how can you help amplify the creative thinking skills of your software development colleagues.

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How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing

CIO

Thousands of the company’s engineers, data scientists, designers, and developers have asked and answered questions about how things work inside their organization. Bloomberg focuses a lot on its engineers and its employees’ learning journey,” says Gulru Ustundag, an engineering manager. “I Digital Transformation

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. I learned a lot more about what goes into team planning and management of resources, and how the product relates to the team.” Cloudera has a great culture. Software development is a creative outlet for me,” she said. What’s Next?

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Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Two and a half millennia later, we were now using the ancient basis for illness to describe employee personalities, and what we could do to better team culture in the workplace. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Hippocrates, who? The Greek physician Hippocrates (ca. Interesting, hmmm….

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Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

Apiumhub

In recent years, there has been an increasing effort to include more female speakers at software development events. Lack of Representation: When there are few female role models or speakers in the software development community, it becomes challenging for aspiring female developers to see themselves in those positions.

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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?