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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. To help out, were supporting the career ladder changes with an XP coaching team. Every open headcount Ive gotten since I joined has gone towards hiring very senior XP coaches.

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

Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

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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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

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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Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

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. Those outcomes are unfortunately real whether we intend them or not.

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Intercom’s Director of Engineering on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Talk with any engineering manager who regrets leaving coding and you’ll understand that management is not for everyone. It’s a whole new ball game.

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My three hopes for 2020

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. In 2020, I want these patterns to continue. I appreciate you.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

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. It is a fast-changing profession that requires you to continuously adapt to keep up your game with all of the news trends.

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Katie Womersley , Director of Engineering at Buffer, excels at discovering additional ways to support her team – it’s part of her philosophy of building a great company instead of just focusing on building a great product. The name of the game here is mental health. Womersley relies heavily on transparency.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

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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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

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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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

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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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

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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Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

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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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

Here’s the thing though, when you build a machine whose parts are human, well, why don’t you just build a machine if you don’t need any humans in the game. GeePaw, I’ve been interviewing engineering managers for one of my clients, helping them hire and we always have a beginning talk about salary.

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The One Constant with Don Gray

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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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

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

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

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Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

Intercom’s Director of Engineering on Becoming a Manager of Managers

My three hopes for 2020

Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

The One Constant with Don Gray

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