Posts tagged with Management
The Personnel Management of the NBA
The NBA Playoffs are happening right now, and as of this writing the teams are about to start the second round of the tournament. This year, the meta story has been how NBA players have gotten injured throughout the year,…
When Feedback Loops Disappear in Management
Early on in my engineering management (EM) career, I went around asking other, more experienced EMs for advice. They were happy to oblige, giving me way more than I could have absorbed at the time, while leaving enough unsaid so…
(Management) Game Respect (Engineering) Game
Software engineers. Most of the time, we're docile and content and easy to please. We write software for big enterprises and tiny startups alike, create our own startups once in a while, and only occasionally pen a blog…
Developer Ageism and the Escape into Management
Is the software development industry ageist? For some industries, this is not an unreasonable proposition. Professional athletes peak in their late 20s[1]; professional gamers (e.g., e-sport atheletes) peak even earlier, in their early 20s. If you were to…
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
There aren't that many good articles on management in a technology company, and even less good books that go into much detail[1]. Square's leadership courses reference High Output Management, written by the president of Intel…
Tech Leads, Managers, and the Hybrid in Between
The software engineer's career path is pretty straight forward at most companies. Starting at the intern or new grad level, there's essentially a number of levels to progress through, each adding some amount of responsibility and…
