James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It’s easy because, in most cases, they can start with one of the many off-the-shelf Agile methods, like the one in this book. So, although it’s tempting to customize your Agile method from the beginning, it’s best to start out with a by-the-book approach. Parts II-IV of this book describe the practices for each zone.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If you’re using this book as the basis for your change, provide copies, and tell people which parts you’re using. Focus team-level managers on managing their work system rather than individuals and tasks. Make a formal proposal.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Run concurrently with DeveloperWeek 2019 , DevExec World is a conference organized specifically for tech executives, engineering managers, and lead developers. Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development.

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Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

DECEMBER 22, 2019

First, I’m exited to tell you that I’ve joined Heroku/Salesforce as an Engineering Manager. I’ve been wanting to “get back in the game” of engineering management for a while, and am excited to put my consulting experience to work in new contexts. Plus, I’m going to continue working on the book.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I believe this is a super common and normal thing but have had at least one great coach insist that it is not, so I’m putting it on the list.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Everybody wants change, but nobody wants to be changed.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24. Marcus: Yeah.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Camille Fournier discuss some points from her book, The Manager’s Path. They discuss the importance of time management and how to effectively manage employee turnover in a leadership role. Why was that book your book to write in that moment?

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Tandem

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tandem’s custom software engineering team works collaboratively to create products for our clients. For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our engineering managers (Mercedes, Chris, and Kate) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate an inclusive workplace culture, and support each other along the way.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. Marcus: Yeah, I actually… just this morning, I was reading Amy Edmondson’s book The Fearless Organization which is about psychological safety. Staff Engineer is equivalent to a manager who is a director. Senior Engineer 1.

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. When you were little, did you want to be a manager?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So, the classic product lifecycle, which comes from Kotler and Keller years ago in a marketing book, is a curve that starts where the product is introduced, introduction. So, I’ve modified it over the years and working with technical people and engineers and doctors and different analytic people. I love that book.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

Marcus: Michael is the author of the forthcoming book, at least it’s forthcoming when we’re recording it, The Art Of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well. Michael: And the book is like 42 or 43 or depending on how it all plays out of these small things, and you get to choose the ones that you want to work on.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Don: We can show a new org chart on the wall for those who’ve been to the coaching beyond the team workshop or gone through human systems dynamics, uh which I believe you’re a part of right now. No, the point of the book is Alfred Korzybski is actually the guy who originally said, “The map is not the territory.”

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And I always enjoy our conversations, but she has a new set of books that is coming out called Modern Management Made Easy. And besides just the fabulous title, the first book is called Practical Ways to Manage Yourself. And Johanna is here today, well, first because I like her so much. Isn’t that intriguing?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

Marcus: Michael is the author of the forthcoming book, at least it’s forthcoming when we’re recording it, The Art Of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well. Michael: And the book is like 42 or 43 or depending on how it all plays out of these small things, and you get to choose the ones that you want to work on.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

They discuss her book, Seven Rules for Positive Productive Change, and how change is viewed and implemented by individuals and organizations. Change is a core aspect of leaders’ and managers’ jobs. And I think this is maybe one of the lessons from your book. Episode 27. Show Notes. Esther: Thank you. Esther: Mmhmm.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

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). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. So these days I’m an engineering manager, managing developers, helping teams deliver, meet their goals. Aaron: Yeah, for sure.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

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). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

GeePaw, I’ve been interviewing engineering managers for one of my clients, helping them hire and we always have a beginning talk about salary. Now, these engineering managers are special in my opinion because they always, always used to be engineers, and they’re not that far from it. Marcus: It is.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. You as the CLM, the software engineering manager, you get a notion for what people are doing but there’s always these beautiful surprises about who is really performing well and who is secretly struggling. Jason: yeah.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And I went back into the literature and I started finding the work of a management theorists called Mary Parker Follett, who was a little bit forgotten in the 20th century, but she did her work mostly in the early 20th century. I do a lot of coaching with senior leaders and managers to help them keep their cool. It’s fine.

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