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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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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. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? Resting in sports is a very common practice.

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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). Because it is—sales is much more of an individual sport. It’s an individual sport. Show Notes. The “Innovation” Misconception (15:36). It’s bizarre.

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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). Because it is—sales is much more of an individual sport. It’s an individual sport. Show Notes. The “Innovation” Misconception (15:36). It’s bizarre.

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The Importance of Proper Feedback

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. You can look at PRs, you can look at who’s assigned, what tickets you as the CLM, the software engineering manager. Do you see that you’re doing this and it’s hurting yourself and others?”

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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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? See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. There’s a lot there.

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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. Are we executing against the strategy as planned? Is it having the desired impact? Is there friction? Are our teams thriving?