Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.

Engineering Management 40

Engineering Management Engineering Organization Part-Time VPE 40

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. It’s also often best if you approach your meeting as a conversation, rather than a presentation with slides, but your allies will know the best approach for your specific situation. See the “Change Team Management Style” section.).

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

My managers tell me that they’re seeing shifts in behavior, with people volunteering to lead meetings and take on work they didn’t before. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track.

Software Engineering 63

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It’s also often best if you approach your meeting as a conversation, rather than a presentation with slides, but your allies will know the best approach for your specific situation. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Delivering practices.

Agile 103

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

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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. Get your tickets here and let’s meet at the conference! To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up.

Conference 59

Conference Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 59

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. I’m their coach,” he says.

Engineering 49

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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. Do you actually meet one on one with them? Are you reliable?

Engineering 49

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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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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. A few title changes along the way were useful backward-looking markers of progress, but they didn’t often denote major changes in scope beyond (usually) new meetings to attend.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Technical Review B2C 98

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.

Engineering 52

Engineering Leadership Software Review Technical Review 52

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.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

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?

Leadership 52

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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.

Engineering 63

Engineering Software Review Culture Organization 63

Apiumhub

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It aspires to be a meeting place that facilitates learning, teaching and collaboration, where participants create enriching experiences. Software Crafters Barcelona is an opportunity to meet new friends and further improve your skills. Workshop) by Abraham Vallez Martín – Team Coach at Voxel Group.

Software Review 52

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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. My managers tell me that theyre seeing shifts in behavior, with people volunteering to lead meetings and take on work they didnt before. You need a coach working alongside you as you learn.

Engineering 141

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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.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

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. That's an overall engineering organisation of 55+ people including engineering leaders, chapter leads, etc.

Engineering 61

Engineering Weak Development Team Software Review Technical Review 61

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I’m imagining so many situations where I just wanted it to be over, the conflict, and I’m in that team meeting. 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. It’s fine.

Weak Development Team 74

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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. There’s a lot of people who walk into a meeting and waiting for the words to show up, to understand what’s going on.

Leadership 59

Leadership Weak Development Team Engineering Culture 59

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.

Leadership 40

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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. There’s a lot of people who walk into a meeting and waiting for the words to show up, to understand what’s going on.

Leadership 52

Leadership Weak Development Team Engineering Culture 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 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. You can look at PR’s, you can look at who’s assigned what tickets. How do you think about that situation?

Programming 40

Programming Training Agile Leadership 40

Joel Crabb

MARCH 18, 2018

I had about 18 months of pure engineering management at United Health Group, having a team of about 25 writing online wellness programs. However, that management position didn’t end well, and I learned much and more about politics at large companies. I’m going to say, as a manager, I was very rough. Goto Part XIX

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Coaching Meeting Programming 40

Joel Crabb

MARCH 18, 2018

I had about 18 months of pure engineering management at United Health Group, having a team of about 25 writing online wellness programs. However, that management position didn’t end well, and I learned much and more about politics at large companies. I’m going to say, as a manager, I was very rough. Goto Part XIX.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Coaching Meeting Programming 40

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?

CTO Coach 52

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

They discuss the importance of time management and how to effectively manage employee turnover in a leadership role. A day in the life of a manager varies, but it is a lot of meetings. @3:58?. As a manager, you have to be on for all the hours you are in. @5:07. And is it just, just meetings? Show Notes.

Technical Review 86

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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.

Weak Development Team 72

Weak Development Team Product Management Software Review Engineering 72

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

ROTI (Returned on Time Invested) method for a meeting @27:29. A challenge for technical managers is actually knowing how to do the work very well. @30:14. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Meetings are… Just calendars are crazy. You can look at PRs.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Survey Meeting Culture 52

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.

Weak Development Team 59

Weak Development Team Marketing Development Product Management 59

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.

Weak Development Team 40

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I actually don’t know exactly what it means, but it’s important, and when I meet people at conferences, I say, “I sell a application monitoring product,” and they nod, hopefully, because they don’t want to say, “What’s that? You install it on your servers, or you have some dashboard.

Product Management 71

Product Management Weak Development Team Agile Testing 71

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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