Joel Crabb

MARCH 18, 2018

Over the course of 2011, I became the main point of contact for the team, but didn’t completely take over till later that year. I had about 18 months of pure engineering management at United Health Group, having a team of about 25 writing online wellness programs. I’m going to say, as a manager, I was very rough.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

You can also register separately to take a training course from February 3rd to 4th. These immersive courses run for two full days, 9:00 a.m. Run concurrently with DeveloperWeek 2019 , DevExec World is a conference organized specifically for tech executives, engineering managers, and lead developers. to 5:00 p.m.,

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Of course, anyone is welcome to work here! In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By Today, he’s a coach and consultant for engineering leadership and is keen on fixing tech’s D&I problem.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. Focus team-level managers on managing their work system rather than individuals and tasks. See the “Change Team Management Style” section.). Ensure each team has a coach who can help them learn to be an effective, jelled team.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.” This is an astonishing claim.

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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. Going from being an IC to being a manager is a really big transition.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Bjorn described three challenges for distributed teams: the n+1 management problem, the junior people problem, and the friction of communication problem. The N+1 Management Problem. “For an engineering manager role, you have to hire people with director-level skills.” This is an astonishing claim.

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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: What is that?

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. One resource that they provide to all employees is Joyable , a digital therapy solution that offers access to personal coaches. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 23, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. As an engineering manager, you’re concerned with your team delivering the best products they can, as efficiently as they can.

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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

JULY 11, 2019

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. Katie: In doing that, you role model to other leaders in the organization and people that have the sort of manager job description, that’s the behavior you want to see. Staff Engineer is equivalent to a manager who is a director.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

At least I find, right, where it’s… the nice thing sometimes about being a manager is that you just kind of come into work and react and that’s like your whole job is reacting and knowing how to react, the appropriate level of reaction. Camille: The other time is of course, when you have a lot of people leave.

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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

I took a course on accounting and they taught us something called the GAP, the Generally Accepted Accounting principles, and with that framed a set of guiding principles about how to think about accounting. Of course, I should be made emperor of the universe, but I’m not holding my breath. Marcus: You know what this reminds me?

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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. I love it here.”

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So, eventually, engineering management is going to start looking at moving people around different teams, getting them exposed to different areas of the product, so they become more domain experts in the entire product. Oracle, of course. Marcus: Of course. ” But of course, that’s a silly thing, right?

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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? November 4-7, 2019.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Esther: Yeah, well people tend to think that it is a matter of individual skill and will, which of course is important. 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. Marcus: Mm.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Marcus: I could imagine somebody who’s listening who says, “Well, of course, I’m afraid the last I got fired. Because as I think about it, it makes me stressed out to imagine because, of course, what I’m thinking is, “What will the other people say? This is a scary place.” What will they do?

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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. Marcus: See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Marcus: I am.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

He’s also the author of fantastic books such as, Managing Humans and a variety of other books, which is in its third edition is highly recommended, and was previously at Slack and lots of other companies. And of course if you’re not sure who he is, you might know him by his other name Rands. Michael: No, I didn’t.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

He’s also the author of fantastic books such as, Managing Humans and a variety of other books, which is in its third edition is highly recommended, and was previously at Slack and lots of other companies. And of course if you’re not sure who he is, you might know him by his other name Rands. Michael: No, I didn’t.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And every time you make a decision of course, you rob someone else of the opportunity to give input, to think about the decision. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Your boss, your customers, your team. To, you don’t pass that baton. Jason: Right. Jason: yeah.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

” Of course, the whole world would be easier if we just did it one way. I do a lot of coaching with senior leaders and managers to help them keep their cool. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Any sports coach would do the same, right? We want that.

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