Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Management”
How to provide feedback on documents.
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.
⭐ How to create software quality.
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales
Constraints on giving feedback.
⭐ Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
Those five spare hours each week.
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring.
Manage your priorities and energy.
Gelling your Engineering leadership team.
Building personal and organizational prestige
Good hypergrowth/curator manager.
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering.
Interviewing engineering executives.
How to plan as an engineering executive.
Who runs Engineering processes?
⭐ Deciding to leave your (executive) job.
Running your engineering onboarding program.
Engineering’s role in Mergers & Acquisitions.
Building your executive network.
⭐ Writing an engineering strategy.
Better to micromanage than be disengaged.
⭐ Setting engineering org values.
Internal comms for executives.
What does it mean to be a cost center?
Meetings for an effective eng organization.
Mailbag: What should you do if you report to an underperforming executive?
How to capitalize engineering costs.
⭐ Measuring an engineering organization.
When shouldn't you roll out business reviews?
Mailbag: What isn't measurable? To hire as exec or not?
Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work.
Fewer, happier incident heroes.
⭐ Reading a Profit & Loss statement.
Mailbag: Did I become a manager too soon?
Your migration probably isn’t failing due to insufficient staffing.
Mailbag: Resources for Engineering Directors.
⭐ Trunk and Branches Model for Scaling Infrastructure Organizations
⭐ Inspection and the limits of trust.
Notes on The Kool-Aid Factory's Planning Issue.
How to find engineering leadership roles.
Notes on hiring a Foundation Eng leader.
Closing calls: tell the best version of the truth.
Create capacity rather than capture it.
Getting to yes: solving engineering manager hiring loops that reject every candidate.
Pockets of rest enable careers.
Can senior leaders make friends at work?
Mailbag: How to deal with unhappy users on your Internal platform?
Measures of engineering impact.
The curious case of the missing regretted attrition.
Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
Interesting work happens at the edges.
Managing Staff-plus engineers.
Renegotiating your first vendor contract.
Engineering strategy every org should write.
Surplus rules of engineering strategy.
Care and feeding for your engineering strategy.
Things that aren't engineering strategy.
A survey of engineering strategies.
Some common hiring manager mistakes.
Where do Staff-plus engineers fit into the org?
Stuff I've learned about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion over the past few years.
Staying aligned with authority.
From one to two: how to start a successful distributed engineering office.
Interviewing senior engineering leaders.
Crowdsourcing CTO/VPE learning circles.
How to partner with an executive assistant.
Some rough notes on running learning circles.
How to build your company's engineering brand.
⭐ Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.
How to navigate and/or survive your acquihire.
"Good Process is Evolved, Not Designed" in 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know
Mailbag: When your team wants your job, personal brand, and service registries.
"How to successfully design organizational processes"
"Do engineering managers need to be technical?" in Increment.
You only learn when you reflect.
Programs: tips for owning the unownable.
Path to engineering manager of managers.
Privilege's upward-facing window.
An Elegant Puzzle is released today!
Make timeline tradeoffs using iterative elimination tournaments.
Rules of thumb for org design.
⭐ How to evolve an engineering organization.
Paying the predictability tax.
⭐ Why limiting work-in-progress works.
Notes on Soul of a New Machine, Messy Middle, Crazy at Work, Company of One.
Growing with your company's complexity.
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Eng Management.
⭐ Metrics for the unmeasurable.
Good process is evolved, not designed.
Defining policy, process and programs.
⭐ Infrastructure planning: users, baselines and timeframes.
⭐ Work the policy, not the exceptions.
Introduction to systems thinking.
Time management: the leadership meta-problem.
Problem exploration, selection and validation.
Introducing SREs, TPMs and other specialized roles.
Career levels, designation momentum, etc.
Designations, levels and calibrations.
Make your peers your first team.
Scaling technical consistency.
Writing strategies and visions.
Guiding broad change with metrics.
My rails for engineering leadership.
The briefest of media trainings.
A case against top-down global optimization.
⭐ Staying on the path to high performing teams.
Where to stash your organizational risk?
Consider the team you have for senior positions.
Setting organizational direction.
⭐ Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
Managing in the growth plates.
Notes from "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy."
How I write group emails at work.
⭐ Product management in infrastructure eng.
⭐ Cold sourcing: hire someone you don't know.
Roles over rocket ships, and why hypergrowth is a weak predictor of personal growth.
Engineering management stuff I learned in 2017.
Tools for operating a growing organization.
Infrastructure between cost center and ego trip
Ways Engineering Managers Get Stuck
⭐ Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.
Running a Humane Interview Process
Adding Value as an Engineering Manager
Company Culture and Managing Freedoms
Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder