Engineering Management as a Product

An EM career is a product you build

Why

Many new EMs are very eager to deliver impact fast, much like how they used to perform as an IC: design, develop, test, ship, repeat. This burning…

We didn’t complete our sprint, again…

As an engineering manager, I often discover leftover tasks at the end of a sprint. This “incompletion” typically had triggered panic early on in my manager career. In a metrics-driven performance culture, my sense of panic seemed justified, every time.

The Internal vs External Voices

Tell the story why your team should stay, continuously