If you’ve played bards from role playing games, they often have party buffs. The bard has weak combat skills and offensive magic capabilities. You don’t use the musical adventurer to one-shot a wight from existence with a burst of sunlight. Instead, you use bards to augment your team. If your team has 8 units, a […]
Start with two and a half percent time to stay technical
“But I don’t want to give up coding!” I feel like staying technical is the equivalent of an existential crisis for engineering managers. I went through that. You don’t have to write code for the rest of your career, if that’s what you wish. For some engineering managers, this is a primary reason they took […]
Boxed in
I interviewed a senior engineer with over 25 years of experience. At the time he had been writing software longer than I’ve been alive. He brought a hard copy of my Linkedin profile and began asking questions about my background. He asked me why I picked engineering, why I choose this startup, and what I […]
What do I do if someone on my team gets hit by a bus?
My friend who is also an engineering manager asked me a serious question, “What should I do if one of my guys gets hit by a bus?” I hope that never happens. But most people leave after awhile. Maybe not today or tomorrow. Sometimes there’s an life-changing event you can’t control. Or they don’t […]
Explore to improve your technical common sense
I’ve always been afraid of losing all my technical skills while managing. The primary reason is I don’t think I can confidently create software by giving up coding completely. I won’t understand the latest technology, I won’t be able to guide decisions, and I will naturally forget how long things take to build. Another reason […]
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