Posts tagged with Management
Providing Leadership Advice
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to participate in a panel of engineering managers and directors to chat about a few of the details and nuances of our jobs. It was set up by Plato, a startup that…
I Don't Want to be a Manager
"I don't want to be a manager" is always a sad line to hear from software engineers. Granted, I have a conflict of interest: I've chosen this line of work as my profession for…
Hiring for Potential vs. Experience
I'm a people optimist. When it comes to building and managing a team, this optimism manifests itself in trusting people on the team to do ultimately do the right thing. It may take them a while to meander…
How Lightweight is a Lightweight Process?
A couple weeks back, as I was reading another big-mailing-list email about how we’re instituting a new set of processes to meet a set of implied standards, I saw that the author reassuringly stated that his implementation…
Revisiting the Tech Lead/Manager Role
A couple years back, when I was first getting into management and learning from some of the best managers I’ve ever had the privilege of working with, I concluded that the Tech Lead/Manager (TL/M) role—whereby one…
Building the Factory that Builds the Widgets
I just spent 40 minutes listening to a trio of software engineers speculate on the motivations of an executive jumping from Apple to Tesla. And while the ATP podcast spends an inordinate amount of time obsessively focused on Apple — its…
