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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Cultures approach conflict differently. One thing you said, I’m just curious about this, as a brief aside, do you think… have you found in your research that all cultures feel the same way about conflict through time and across the globe? My undergrad was actually in cultural anthropology. Show Notes.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Engineering is still a human sport at the end of the day.”. And the same goes for distributed managers, as well—particularly when an organization is starting to go remote. We have an engineering manager in Colorado, who was a remote manager before, who helped us understand remote strategies. Conclusion.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

Both models work on the scale, particularly when the company's core values, priorities, and culture all three are well aligned. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment. The right answer mostly depends on the triad I mentioned earlier - core values, business priorities, and culture.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

According to Rich, this is the result of two very different work cultures existing in the same organization – one that’s collaborative and one that’s highly individualistic. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

According to Rich, this is the result of two very different work cultures existing in the same organization – one that’s collaborative and one that’s highly individualistic. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

I assumed being a VP would require the same amount of slack as my past engineering manager and director roles, but in practice I’ve found that it really helps to leave even more slack time. I not only need to show up to conversations with emotional energy; I need to be able to do strategic thinking and provide directional clarity.