The Story Behind SWLW
Like many other great ideas, it came up while drinking beers with
my good friend
Aviel Lazar,
exchanging our favorite weekly (techie) newsletters. It suddenly
came to me that creating a newsletter focused on software
leadership and management, could be of value to like-minded
professionals, passionate about such challenges.
It was probably the beer talking, but hey, this is something I'm truly in to and I'm reading 50+ articles every week anyway, so why not pick the very best and send it to my peers? One hour of ruthless, alcohol driven development later, using AppHarbor & MailChimp, and everything was up and running!
My goal? save you precious time by delivering high quality content directly to your inbox, every week.
It was probably the beer talking, but hey, this is something I'm truly in to and I'm reading 50+ articles every week anyway, so why not pick the very best and send it to my peers? One hour of ruthless, alcohol driven development later, using AppHarbor & MailChimp, and everything was up and running!
My goal? save you precious time by delivering high quality content directly to your inbox, every week.
About Oren Ellenbogen
Currently serving a great team as the VP Engineering at
Forter.
Previously worked at Commerce Sciences (acquired by Taboola), Delver (acquired by Sears), Mercury (acquired by HP), Israeli Air Force and various small startups as freelancer (ages 16 to 18, before joining the army).
Trying to share what I've learned so far...
Previously worked at Commerce Sciences (acquired by Taboola), Delver (acquired by Sears), Mercury (acquired by HP), Israeli Air Force and various small startups as freelancer (ages 16 to 18, before joining the army).
Trying to share what I've learned so far...
- Author of Leading Snowflakes, the Engineering Manager Handbook – Practical tools and techniques for programmers who want to lead.
- Writing a blog about engineering, culture, leadership, management & startups.
- Lecturing about "The Leadership Role @ the Agile era" (at Outbrain, Google and ILTechTalks).
- Lecturing about "12 Leadership Hacks For Building Great Teams" (at Conduit and ILTechTalks).
- Helping out on Quora (e.g. What are good ways of quantifying code quality?, As a manager, how do you handle low morale in your team?, How do you fire someone everybody likes?).