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Published on January 1, 0001.

Engineering Executives

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I (Will Larson) am starting to write down my thoughts on a handful of engineering executive topics, and am hoping to gather folks in head of engineering roles who would be willing to occasionally answer very brief surveys (2-3 questions) or look at early blog drafts on engineering executive topics (for example, what are effective ways to measure engineering for stakeholders like CEO, Board of Directors, other functions, etc).

Seeking feedback

Currently looking for feedback on these pieces:

  • None ready at this moment!

Thank yous!

I am immensely grateful to these folks for their feedback:

Arnaud Porterie, Ori Pearl, Oded Blayer, Kevin Stewart, Nick Snyder, Josh Schairbaum, Andy Britcliffe, Anton Drukh, Mustafa F, Ishan Agrawal, Max Voloshin, Farres Moidu, Roman Bugaev, Aseem Kishore, Myles Henderson, Raymond Etornam Agbeame, Katie Wilde, Eric Hauser, Uma Chingunde, Olly Headey, Harry Margiolakiotis, Vivek Juneja, Dave Mabe, Luis Cipriani, Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Articles ready to publish

I am not seeking further feedback on these articles, unless you feel I’ve made a grave mistake of some sort:

  • None at the moment!

Published articles

Articles drafted with this group that are now published:

  • Balancing your CEO, peers and Engineering
  • Interviewing engineering executives: How do you interview engineering executives?
  • Running planning for Engineering: How should you engage in planning as an engineering executive?
  • Who runs engineering process?: What are the common patterns for running engineering process?
  • Onboarding peer executives: How do you help new executive peers onboard?
  • Leaving the (executive) job: How do you decide to leave, and actually leave, an executive job?
  • Using cultural survey data: How do you use data from cultural surveys like CultureAmp?
    • Engineering onboarding programs: How do you build an onboarding program for engineering organizations?
  • Engineering’s role in Mergers & Acquisitions: How should engineering contribute in M&A discussions?
  • Building your executive network: How do you build an executive network to support operating as an executive?
  • Writing an engineering strategy: how do you write an effective engineering strategy?
  • Internal comms for executives: how do you communincate effectively with your organization?
  • Setting organizational values: should we establish org values for engineering, and how do we define useful values?
  • Meetings for an effective eng organization: what are the core meetings that an engineering organization needs to run effectively?
  • Getting a job as an engineering executive: how do you find and secure engineering executive jobs?
  • Measuring engineering organization: how should we measure engineering organizations for various stakeholders?

Previous, thematically related writing

Here are some of my previous articles that touch on executive engineering topics:

  • First 90 days as a CTO/VPE
  • How to start a successful distributed engineering office
  • Reading a profit and loss statement

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