How do you balance protecting your team from endless stakeholder requests with maintaining business visibility? #EngineeringManagement #DevTeams
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@severin-bruhat.bsky.socialHow do you balance protecting your team from endless stakeholder requests with maintaining business visibility? #EngineeringManagement #DevTeams
@robertstowe.bsky.socialWhen you start managing managers, I think the biggest change is that you stop seeing the work. Your job becomes the judgment of the people who do.
https://robertstowe.com/what-i-believe-changes-when-you-start-managing-managers/
@r-richard.bsky.socialA small retro experiment: the leader speaks last. Pick one event, hear the accounts, agree one change and revisit it.
The follow-through matters more than the board template. People notice what happens after they speak. #EngineeringManagement
@robertstowe.bsky.socialAn essay argues psychological safety drifted into a promise that nobody feels bad. I think the real signal is how early bad news reaches a manager, not team mood.
@severin-bruhat.bsky.socialAre take-home assignments actually filtering out the right candidates, or are we just losing strong engineers who simply do not have the free time?
@severin-bruhat.bsky.socialWhat is your approach when a high performer starts burning out but pushes back on every suggestion to delegate or drop scope?
@r-richard.bsky.socialEngineering leads: what helped you stop checking whether people were working and start understanding whether the work was going somewhere?
I’m interested in the habit you changed
@severin-bruhat.bsky.social9 Laws Every Manager Should Know (And Most Break Daily) https://medium.com/the-good-boss/9-laws-every-manager-should-know-and-most-break-daily-de06a45d57d3 #engineeringManagement #leadership
@robertstowe.bsky.socialI think an estimate is a planning input, not a promise. Most of the trouble with estimates comes from asking them to be the second thing.
@frontenddogma.comDon’t Measure AI Code Percentage on Its Own, by (not found or attributed):
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/dont-measure-ai-code-percentage-on?ref=frontenddogma.com
@qasphere.com🔗 Read it here → https://qasphere.com/blog/escaped-defects-rca/
#RootCauseAnalysis #Postmortem #QualityAssurance #EngineeringManagement
@grevory.bsky.socialI put off blogging about engineering management because I thought others were more qualified.
I’m still learning. I hope sharing my experiences helps others, and helps me learn, too.
@mastodon.bentasker.co.ukNew #Blog: Backing Away From The Burn-Out Abyss
Author: Ben Tasker
@phpboyscout.ukA manager went back to engineering at exactly the same level. Same number on both sides of the ladder. Everyone around him called it a demotion anyway.
Management is a choice. It was never a promotion.
@severin-bruhat.bsky.socialThe reality of being an engineering manager https://leaddev.com/career-development/the-reality-of-being-an-engineering-manager #engineeringManagement #softwareEngineering
@grevory.bsky.socialI started a blog about engineering leadership and the part of the job I care about most: building teams people want to stay on.
Three posts so far, including one about hearing "we've decided to move forward with another candidate."
@powerbitips.bsky.socialSenior engineering managers used to estimate man hours and worker costs in their sleep. That skill has to be rebuilt for agents, and almost nobody has the data yet.
#engineeringmanagement #aiagents #techleadership #aicost #softwareteams
@powerbitips.bsky.socialStory points and sprint planning gave leadership a way to price human effort. Nothing like that exists for agents burning tokens, and somebody has to allocate that budget.
@o11y-jobs.bsky.social◇ Software Engineering Manager, AI Observability & Evals Platform @ LangChain
Boston, MA
https://o11y.jobs/jobs/software-engineering-manager-ai-observability-evals-platform-langchain-bb6c86?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jobs
#jobs #tracing #frontend #engineeringmanagement
@o11y-jobs.bsky.social◇ Senior Software Backend Engineer, Foundations @ NetBox Labs
Remote · 💰 $85k – $195k
https://o11y.jobs/jobs/senior-software-backend-engineer-foundations-netbox-labs-bca0c2?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jobs
#jobs #remote #backend #engineeringmanagement