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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. To help protect our engineering managers and support them in some of the challenges of this changing role, I propose the following contract. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Go focus all your energy and innovation on that. VP: The VP is typically the highest point on the tree for gathering everyone in a function.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Resilient management has to do with making sure your bucket of energy is healthy. @35:01. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. You can see metrics about individual performance. What are you optimizing for? @30:24.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say.

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