Navigating the Mid-career plateau Note: This is a lightly edited version of a post I previously published elsewhere and am moving here. All good engineering organization organizations eventually form career ladders or paths around 2 basic principles. Ladders separated by function i.e. at a minimum separate ladders
Cloud, unbundling, paas, platform engineering, startups Unbundling the Cloud Just as consumer platforms such as Craiglist, Youtube, and Zillow are being unbundled, cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure are also in the process of being unbundled.
Communicating organizational changes The inspiration for this post was a Tweet I’ve bookmarked that goes “Never YOLO the communications plan”, from Julia Grace. Like her other advice it is worth emulating. Why is it important?The what and why of the changes are obviously the most
Planning a remote offsite The team I support has traditionally done offsites twice a year. We are very distributed and find it useful to spend time together in the same location as a team at a planned cadence. This is important to get to know each other socially,
Your first 90 days as an Engineering Manager When I first started in a new role as an engineering manager, there were very few resources on being a good manager, particularly for people new to the role. Luckily over the last few years we have seen a surge in material in this
Managing migrations Engineering projects that are either directly technology migrations or shaped like them are exceedingly common, so learning to do them well is an important skill as an engineering leader. These projects tend to generate a lot of detail-oriented work and often lack the glamour