James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. Here’s the latest version of the ladder.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Managers can hold space and build a culture where mental health is prioritized, and being frank about promoting it sure helps. But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 16, 2021

This book is ideal whether you’re a new manager, a mentor, or a more experienced leader looking for fresh advice. Pick up this book and learn how to become a better manager and leader in your organization. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 4, 2023

Almost everyone who reached out mentioned: They didn’t know career coaching was a thing The idea of timeboxing a role change experiment (like going from engineer to manager) for two years was bang-on Let’s dive deeper into these observations. Career coaches can help you get unstuck and recognize you need a change.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Stretch conference is a 2-day international conference that brings together community leaders and managers who are interested in sharing stories, hands-on solutions, and exploring new trends and ideas to become a better version of themselves. What are the topics of the talks?

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Apiumhub

MAY 10, 2022

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. that can help companies work more effectively.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 10, 2022

Managers facilitate a lot of decision-making and routing of people and data and things, and it’s very easy to slip into making all decisions rather than empowering people to make them. But if you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer.

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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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Gitprime

DECEMBER 8, 2018

In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By By default, our engineering organizations are wildly unsafe places for underrepresented minorities,” Jason Wong, Engineering Management Coach and Consultant, says. A Rubric for Evaluating Team Members’ Contributions to an Inclusive Culture.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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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 have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. Agile requires management support.

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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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Tandem

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our design managers (Julia and Chris) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate a healthy design culture, and support each other along the way. Interested in our engineering managers’ perspectives? What is Tandem’s approach to management?

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. If you want to be Agile, you need management support. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices.

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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

MARCH 4, 2020

What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. Defining Thick Culture, Thin Culture, and the Frame (4:01).

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

team autonomy, information flow, alignment between teams, support for taking risk, organisational culture), or functional in attaining goals (e.g. coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Resources refer to characteristics that help to cope with demands (e.g.,

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Both models work on the scale, particularly when the company's core values, priorities, and culture all three are well aligned. As a bare minimum, I can think of an engineering organisation of 6 Spotify like squads with each team consisting of 8-10 people including engineers (frontend/backend), BA, PO, and an agile coach.

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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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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Your feedback generates bugs in production by Eli Maruenda Joya – Engineering Manager at Holaluz.com, Inma Navas Peña – Software Engineer at MANGO. Workshop) by Abraham Vallez Martín – Team Coach at Voxel Group. Communication in organizations is vital.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

According to Rich, this is the result of two very different work cultures existing in the same organization – one that’s collaborative and one that’s highly individualistic. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

According to Rich, this is the result of two very different work cultures existing in the same organization – one that’s collaborative and one that’s highly individualistic. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And when we think about… That’s why Managing Ourselves is the first book, because if we cannot do stuff… And I always hesitate to start with the not, right? Johanna: Now we’ve created an environment, a culture where people can really excel. Johanna: If you have a culture, that is not particularly congruent.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

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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. Marcus: Right. Marcus: Perhaps. Marcus: Yeah, I agree.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And we have no way of, I mean culture is basically invisible. Don: Those two sets of rules pretty much determine corporate culture and a lot of change, especially now that we’re getting into digital transformation and organizational transformation of all of agile transformations, transformation means change. Marcus: I am.

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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

Cultures approach conflict differently. 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? My undergrad was actually in cultural anthropology. Show Notes.

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