Culture
Looks at Our Bug Tracking After Not Looking For A While...1 minute read.
My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face.
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Flavors of Engineering Management5 minutes read.
Benjamin Encz shares three different "flavors" of Engineering Managers. I find it useful as it helps you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each flavor, and how you need to hire to compliment the team. I'd add to it that usually the Product and People-oriented managers are usually better at providing business context while missing subtleties in Tech Debt tradeoffs.
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Who I Want to Work For4 minutes read.
Keavy McMinn covers the leadership qualities she'd like to see in her current and future managers. "Whether it’s about large or small tasks, new features or regular maintenance, you value the work of those around you. Everyone knows you value them and their work, primarily because you regularly tell them so. You cultivate a culture of giving credit where and when it’s due." -- I wish more people would write such expectations doc and share it publicly. We should hold managers accountable, to lead with purpose.
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The Big Secret of Small Improvements4 minutes read.
Tal Bereznitskey shares a nice approach for fixing small things that can win customers' hearts. I've seen before the reaction of reaching out to customers, telling them "The small improvement you offered to our product a few days ago is now live! Thank you for raising our attention, our product is better now because of you.". Reminds me of Medium's "Jank 'n' Drank" process that I've shared before.
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