Do you feel overwhelmed keeping track of everyone’s status? Daily updates and stand-ups never worked for me. I don’t have time to check up on everyone and progress at a B2B company doesn’t change every 24 hours. Even asking for an emailed daily status seemed inefficient. Often I’d observe the same status “working on X […]
Managing something you didn’t create
My friend was frustrated, “I have no control!” He was given the opportunity to learn management and wondered, “How do you manage something that you didn’t even build?” My friend had a tech lead or manager spec all the work he had to do. As long as his test suites passed, he was doing his […]
Rockstor – managing an open source community
My friend Suman started an open source project called Rockstor back in January 2013. Rockstor lets you create your own personal cloud service. Small businesses like law firms or clinics utilize Rockstor to keep their data offline. Suman has been keeping me in the loop about Rockstor, and I realized I could write about his experience managing […]
Reflections of a new engineering manager part 1
My friend recently became an engineering manager.He’s never managed anyone before, and now he has to lead a team of 8 engineers. Over skype he laughed, “This is crazy! Gooooo.” Here’s a few topics we discussed for his first week on the job as the newest manager in the department. How to track everyone’s status […]
Did the junior engineer speak?
Another fire broke out. Fred[1] was called into a meeting to figure out the issue. The problem required multiple layers of management and Fred could feel the intensity in the room. His manager Vic was there, along with his manager’s manager. Ted was the senior manager of the group. At the head of the table […]
Creating presence – keep that green light on
One of those nights. You have to work late. The issue is critical and you’re the one on the job. You haven’t seen anything like this problem. Your progress investigating the codebase stalls and you need help from your manager and tech lead. They promised they’d be around so you email asking for advice. Nobody […]
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