The Engineering Manager

After a series of posts on LLMs, we’re returning to management fundamentals. This month, we’re building upon the cultural shift that management has experienced recently: smaller, leaner and tighter orgs. We’ll build upon concepts from our previous articles: new advice for aspiring managers, should managers still code?, and being in the details. This article, plus those listed above, reflect a new and expected management style for the current era: more hands-on, detail-oriented, and direct. This shift is driven […]

Leaders can often find it hard to build deep trust and alignment with their teams, especially if those teams are quite big, or if the leader in question is quite senior. Doing regular skip-skip-skip levels is out of the question, attending every meeting is impossible, and the power dynamics of the org can make it hard for staff to really get to know you one-on-one. You need a solution that works for you and your […]