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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The best salesperson does not always make the best sales manager. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager.

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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

But how do you prepare others on your team for this next career step? Because if you don’t do the upfront work to prepare your team to take the helm, you won’t have anyone to fill those seats when you want to move up — or step down. I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team.

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Talks With Software Development Experts Initiative – Part 3

Apiumhub

Welcome to the third and last part of our Talks With Software Development Experts series. As we have mentioned before, this initiative is a section where we interview software engineers and industry experts to learn more about their professions, efforts, hobbies, and perspectives on a variety of tech-related issues. Check them out!

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

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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Managing From Afar: How This Engineering Manager Tackles the Challenges of Remote Work

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Leading remote engineering teams comes with a suite of challenges. How should teams that are spread across time zones coordinate their schedules?

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hough is a Web2 and Web3 software engineer, AWS Community Builder, host of the Tech Stack Playbook YouTube channel/podcast, a 5-time global hackathon winner, and a tech content creator with 10k+ followers. Rado: Engineering managers should be able to do “more-with-less” in the coming year.

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Habits of Highly Effective Engineering Managers

Federico Cargnelutti

Here are my notes: Management Know what’s expected of your team and what the business priorities are. Set a clear strategy and vision for the team, and ensure it’s understood by everyone. Find out strengths and weaknesses of your team, also their aspirations. Put first things first. Cycle time.