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Partnership over Stakeholdership

Abhishek Tiwari

Similarly, in cricket (sports), teams performance revolves around match-winning partnerships. In most cases, people I formed formidable partnership were my peers (such as product directors) or senior executives (such as CDO, CMO), in some cases my director reports (engineering managers, technical leads, architects etc.).

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). And if you go back 30 years and say, well, the IT folks are the ones who configured my laptop and wrote SQL reports against the customer database.

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). And if you go back 30 years and say, well, the IT folks are the ones who configured my laptop and wrote SQL reports against the customer database.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

This leads to endless meetings where engineering management get involved to discuss what's to be built, how to break up dependencies in manageable chunks and delegate them to various teams. Microsoft Team now reports 13 million daily active users more than 10 million people who use Slack daily.

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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. This struggle is true up and down my reporting chain, felt no less acutely by ICs or line managers on our teams.