Posts tagged with Management
Review: Radical Candor
On several occasions, I've had the opportunity to participate in management training classes offered by my employer. Despite having taken the lessons a decade apart, during different phrases of my career, and with a varied set of instructors—…
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…
