Engineering Team Management
363 items from kdeldycke/awesome-engineering-team-management ★2,615
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The Art of Powerful Questions - Catalyzing Insight, Innovation, and Action betterevaluation.org
“Leaders believe that they are being paid for fixing problems rather than for fostering breakthrough thinking.”
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Strategies for long Projects benbrostoff.github.io
Relentless, irrational optimism; Daily progress documentation; Compounding investments; Time budgeting.
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The Surprising Traits of Good Remote Leaders bbc.com
“the confidence, intelligence and extroversion that have long propelled ambitious workers into the executive suite are not enough online because they simply don't translate into virtual leadership. (…) Instead, workers who are organized, dependable and productive take the reins…
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Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time bbc.com
“Research shows that once the first step is made towards a task, following through becomes easier”.
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The six ways to influence people bakadesuyo.com
6 universal principles of influence that are used to persuade business professionals: reciprocity, consistency, social proof, getting people to like you, authority and scarcity.
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What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity archive.ph
“A particular confluence of high achievement, intense competitiveness, and culture of overwork has caught many in a perfect storm of career enmeshment and burnout.”
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The SaaS Org Chart archive.ph
Blueprints of an organization at each stage of its 50/125/400/1000-employees stages, with typical ratios and ARR.
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Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already archive.ph
A set of heuristics on tech companies and the ecosystem they live in.
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Why do some developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? archive.ph
Because the short-term focused Scrum processes “seem suited to particular types of development, most notably consulting or contract programming, where the customer is external to the organizations, runs the show because they are paying for development, and can change their mind…
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How to get promoted archive.ph
The cynical take: “an opportunist's career advice is: ignore OKRs, switch projects well before the consequences of your decisions can be measured, act happy and easy-going, package bad news as appeals for slow systemic adjustments, don't make anyone look bad, perform rituals…
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The failure of Scaling Etsy archive.ph
When a company lacks technical leadership: developers waste time in costly refactors, over-engineered systems, and ends up detached from the business and product.
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OKRs from a development team's perspective archive.ph
On how OKRs articulates with a backlog.
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How CEOs Manage Time archive.ph
A study on what CEO of large companies spent their time on, and how. Opens a new window into what leadership is all about and into its many components and dimensions.
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It's Not Enough to Be Right—You Also Have to Be Kind archive.ph
“It's harder to be kind than clever”, or put another way by Abraham Joshua Heschel: “When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”
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Why I Rejected My Manager archive.ph
“I understand now why the saying is: people leave managers, not companies.”
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If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You're More Likely to Be Happy at Work archive.ph
“Although we found that many factors can matter for happiness at work – type of occupation, level of education, tenure, and industry are also significant, for instance – they don't even come close to mattering as much as the boss' technical competence.”
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How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users archive.ph
How the biggest apps out there started: from going to your user directly (both online and offline), creating FOMO and word-of-mouth, to build a community first and get press.
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What Only the CEO Can Do archive.ph
“1. Defining and interpreting the meaningful "outside" of the company; 2. Answering the two-part question: What business are we in and what business are we not in? 3. Balancing sufficient yield in the present with necessary investment in the future; 4. Shaping the values and…
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Good business mafias form archive.ph
when there's a group of people who all have to quit their job for reasons that are exogenous to their performance. In the case of Paypal, it was an acquisition; at Tiger Management, a few years of underperformance; at Drexel Burnham Lambert, an indictment. In Reliance's case…
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Who are you trying to impress with your deadlines? archive.ph
“There are companies where those deadlines are set in stone, and a missed deadline is next to fire. That's when the problem starts.”
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Operations and Internal Communication Strategies For Effective CEOs archive.ph
After insisting on the importance of context and narratives, the author provide an interesting template (good for inspiration) of ritual and recurring internal communication devices.
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If You're So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? archive.ph
“Our tendency to overwork and burn out is framed by a complex combination of factors involving our profession, our organization, and ourselves. At the heart of it is insecurity.”
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Dear Manager, You're Holding Too Many Meetings archive.ph
“Employee productivity was 71% higher when meetings were reduced by 40%. This is largely because employees felt more empowered and autonomous. Rather than a schedule being the boss, they owned their to-do lists and held themselves accountable.”
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What do executives do, anyway? apenwarr.ca
Paraphrasing Andy Grove's book, High Output Management, “the job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions.” The article also details the failures modes of a CEO: forcing his own decisions downstream…
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Meeting everyone on a new team annashipman.co.uk
Right after inheriting a position at the top of an organization of 50 engineers, the author bootstrapped the relationship with that big team by meeting everyone in 30 minutes 1:1s. It was a huge time investment, and despite fears of being boring, it allows for recognizing…
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BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful animalz.co
“BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that's designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.”
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How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku amyunger.com
A great window into the somewhat nebulous title of Staff Engineer, also called Principal Engineer or Software Architect at times. I.e. a role in which you are a technical expert, but know how to solve non-obvious engineering issues, most of the time because they are rooted in…
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The Framing of the Developer amazingcto.com
Default framing is around the backlog, which leads to an asymmetry in which failure is blamed on lacks of developer performance, and success is celebrated as the full realization of the PM's vision. But “technology is the bank that gave credit”, and technical debt should be…
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There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs almad.blog
Issue trackers needs to materialize ownership, queue position, state, task breakdown and aggressive closing. Priority, ticket type, software version, severity and long-life tickets are anti-patterns.
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It's time to start writing alexnixon.github.io
On “Jeff Bezos's dotcom-era policy of banning PowerPoint within Amazon”, and how “this is neither about powerpoint nor about reading - it's about thinking.”
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source accu.org
) - This quote is from a review of Superdistribution - Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier, in which the creator of Objective-C was advocating in the 90's for a new economic framework that rewards creation of components in proportion to their use. But software…
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GitLab's Guide to All-Remote about.gitlab.com
“GitLab is the world's largest all-remote company”. Here is what it means and how it works.
