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.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers.

Part-Time VPE 45

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Weak Development Team Culture 45

Apiumhub

AUGUST 27, 2023

Female software experts in software development events These female speakers are proficient software development experts who actively engage in tech events worldwide, consistently delivering top-notch content: Janet Maldonado , Head of Engineering at Boehringer Ingelheim Anca Iordanescu , VP of Engineering, Stores of the Future at IKEA Komal Bagave (..)

Software Development 92

Software Development Fractional CTO Software Fractional VPE 92

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

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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.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. The VP liked what I had to say. We spoke two weeks later.

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