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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews

TechCrunch

The best way to track your developers’ progress automatically is by using Git Analytics tools, which track the performance of individuals by aggregating historical Git data and then feeding that information back to managers in minute detail.

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How to hire great engineers when you don’t have any technical expertise

TechCrunch

Recruiting great engineers involves four main challenges: Discovery. Finding good engineers is a lengthy subject in itself, and there is plenty of information on how to structure offers, so let’s focus on how to engage and assess great candidates. Engagement. Assessment. Assessment.

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Practical Project Management Communication Strategies You Can Use Today – Ep 069

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode Information: Anthony Fasano, PE, AEC PM, F. ASCE of the Engineering Management Institute speaks with Clint Padgett, president & CEO of Project Success, Inc., Learn why the most successful project managers prioritize project management communication strategies to drive clarity, accountability, and results.

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How AWS sales uses Amazon Q Business for customer engagement

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Heres a sampling of what some of our more active users had to say about their experience with Field Advisor: I use Field Advisor to review executive briefing documents, summarize meetings and outline actions, as well analyze dense information into key points with prompts. Field Advisor continues to enable me to work smarter, not harder.

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

Honeycomb

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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Cortex snags $2.25M seed to build services catalog for development teams

TechCrunch

. “So the combination of the data not being up to date and SRE teams having to bug engineers to keep all this information up to date, it just creates a lot of problems around incident response and engineering velocity. And so I started Cortex late last year to solve some of those problems,” he said.