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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

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. How to prepare While I didn’t see myself on the path to VP when I joined Honeycomb, in hindsight I can see some traits that helped me become a fit for the role: Holistic thinking.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

The concept reminds us that the timing of an investment and its cost are connected, and that usually things cost much more (in engineers’ time) to address later , but increasing flexibility in the present (opportunity cost) may still be the right choice. Interested in reading more about engineering management?

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

These include how to counter isolation and silos by keeping teams in the loop, how to handle time zone differences, what to look for in the hiring process, and onboarding strategies for remote engineers. How do you keep remote and distributed teams in the loop and prevent the feeling that people are siloed and isolated?

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

How to provide data retention for the busiest collections on our build platform. What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Today, we are talking about how to become a better front end developer, or how to find one if you’re hiring them. Our guests today are two superbly experienced front end engineers, and with several books, and many, many talks between them. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. Sorry, go ahead.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort.