Bookmarks tagged “leadership”
92 bookmarks tagged “leadership”
The truth about being a manager
I vividly remember most of my own journey into engineering management over the years. Throughout my career, I’ve also mentored several people taking the step from engineer to engineering manager. It’s a challenging and often lonely journey, and here are a few truths most new mana
Organizing productive platform teams - Stack Overflow
8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI - Stack Overflow
What we learned from the first year of Leaders of Code.
The Trust Collapse: Why Manager Credibility Dropped from 46% to 29% in Two Years
Trust in managers plummeted 17 points in two years. Discover why leadership credibility collapsed & how to rebuild authentic authority.
How to Master the Art of the Perspective Shift (Advice From Yoda)
Want to know how you can design a perspective shift for yourself right when you need it? These wise tips from Master Yoda will teach you.
So You Want To Speak At Software Conferences? : dylanbeattie.net
An article from dylanbeattie.net
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
How quarterly fixit weeks help teams tackle small annoyances that never bubble up to the priority list.
A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work
In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and technical leaders in particular, that the absence of ego is the best way to furt
Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
Someone pointed out that Jeff Atwood wrote this same thing in 2008. Jeff references Bruce Eckel from 2007 , and Bruce references Gerald...
Why doing less makes you a better leader - Blog - Tech Leaders Launchpad
Recently I've been speaking to a lot of new leaders, and a mistake I am seeing quite often is equating productivity with the number of tasks they complete, meetings they attend, and decisions they make. Many new leaders, particularly those transitioning from individual contributo
Assertive communication: What it is and how to do it well - Work Life by Atlassian
Assertive communication helps you express your thoughts and feelings while still being respectful of others. Here’s why it matters and how to get it right.
Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
How do you understand what engineers are doing with that time? How do you know if they’re working on the “right” things? Here’s how I suggest answering those questions.
New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King
On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”
Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net
overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor
How do we get a tech team to make a big technical change? - Stack Overflow
The delusion of Healthy Tensions
Every organisation I’ve ever worked with has suffered from ‘healthy tensions’ between roles turned nasty in one form or another. I’ve seen them lead to interpersonal conflict, team dysfunction, silos and productivity grinding to a halt. In general - bad outcomes all round....
Right-sizing your technology team | Thoughtworks
Managing the scale of your technology teams to accomplish strategic goals can be challenging. How can business leaders get it right?
Balancing Autonomy and Alignment with Accountability | by Richard Lennox |
Autonomous teams that are highly Aligned to purpose, are also explicitly Accountable. By having concrete mechanisms maximising Transparency and improving Commitments you can drive accountabilty.
Hard to work with. | Irrational Exuberance
Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any comp
The maze is in the mouse - Praveen Seshadri - Medium
What ails Google. And how it can turn it around.
