Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Links: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference – Berlin, Germany. Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. November 4-7, 2019. Transcript.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

How am I learning from all the conflicts I’ve been in, in a way that allows me windows into my management style, my teamwork style, my approach to my systems, and how I use my knowledge to influence the situations around me?” See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But while what we know are important data points in any complex adaptive system, our past performance might be completely shot out the window. But I also want to propose something that might sound completely illogical, and that is planning is important, but that plan should be able to be thrown out the window at a moment’s notice.

Windows 40

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. I use a Johari window, which is partly… If you’ve read Jerry Weinberg, Seashore, and Seashore about feedback, yeah, so yeah, What Did You Say? So that’s, The Johari window is in there. You can look at PRs.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

So you really have to get it all done in kind of a short window and you have to be mentally on and paying attention and engaging and you know making the most of those few minutes you have with people. See it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working.

Technical Review 86

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

The further you go on the management ladder, the more doing a good job in your role can become decoupled from appearing to your team to do a good job in your role. Managing and making management visible turn out to be two mostly distinct groups of skills.

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Netlify

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

All it takes is a window of opportunity to see what might happen if you pursue that idea that tends to get filed away to the next development sprint. Our documentation is probably one of the most important ways,” says Peggy Rayzis, engineering manager at Apollo and leader of the Developer Experience team.

Software Review 52

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