So you have just become an Engineering Manager — congrats!
That said — being a new Engineering Manager can be overwhelming.
You have a lot of things to immediately start making progress on:
User personas are fictional characters developed to help empathize, easily understand, and connect with users. They are often segmented in some way, by role for example, to illustrate different types/categories of users.
At the bottom of this article are links to the actual personas used by two organizations. …
Your first day as a manager is exciting — meeting your team, fellow managers, and the leadership above you.
But — leaving an individual contributor role can be terrifying since many managers were promoted because they excelled as an individual performer.
Now you are responsible for an entire team’s performance…
Over 65 percent of employees are looking for a new job per a recent survey by PwC.
The United States is near an all-time record high for open jobs — with over 10 million jobs currently open.
Developing great software architecture doesn’t mean much if it can’t be maintained over time.
Part of maintaining quality architecture requires an understanding of how the current architecture has evolved over time, and what the decisions, assumptions, and constraints at critical points in time.
This can be extremely challenging, as software…
Bloomberg Economics estimates there is a 53% chance the United States will start a recession in the next 12 months.
For the past ten years I’ve led software development teams. Some of the biggest debates I’ve been a part of involved the frameworks, languages, processes, and platforms used to create, deliver, and manage software.
I’ve led software engineers for the last ten years. I have mentored or promoted around a dozen developers to team lead, management, and leadership roles.
In my experience, there are a few common pitfalls with new managers.
As with software development — in management there are frameworks, practices, even languages…
Last year I was sitting in front of a CMO asking him what his top priority was. His response, “More than anything I need to innovate.” He felt that the future of his company rested on his ability to create and execute a breakthrough idea.
