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Making software and software development teams. Mostly the people parts.
Information Gathering For EMs In The LLM Era - October 15th, 2024
Learn how effective information gathering turns you from a good engineering manager into a truly high-output engineering leader, with both intentional and passive systems for insight. Discover practical ways to use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to understand your business model, technical architecture, reliability bottlenecks, and org chart dynamics. Walk through concrete examples and prompts you can use today to map how your company makes money, how your code really works, and who you need strong relationships with to move the needle.
Ted Talk On Employee Motivation - January 10th, 2023
An Engineering Management lesson: you can inspire your people, you can create fertile ground for them to thrive in, but only they can motivate themselves to do the work.
Andy Grove's High Output Management and the Three High Impact Activities - July 19th, 2022
Another dimension of engineering management: The three highest impact activities.
Dimensions of Engineering Management Focus - November 2nd, 2021
High level framing to either understand your own career or to assist in interviewing/hiring engineering managers.
Manager's Framework - Prioritizing Your Time - December 22nd, 2019
The Four Key Activities from Andy Grove's High Output Management, and mapping them to a simple framework you can use to min/max your time.
Fascinating Tweet Thread - September 8th, 2019
Marco Rogers long and very good tweet thread on the challenges of modern engineering management and leadership.