Engineering Management

Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving ability of engineering and the organizational, administrative, legal and planning abilities of management in order to oversee the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.

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Yanda's Negotiation Cheat Sheet

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Sara

😓 the number of companies out there that won't pay $20K a year for off-the-shelf SaaS, but then spend unlimited engineering effort building internal tooling themselves and then complain they don't have enough engineering capacity

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Mo Shafieeha

The biggest challenge with middleware is that for it to be successful and not stifle innovation middleware needs to be the sum of all the capabilities that it chooses to integrate. Middleware always starts off simple because it always starts off in the earliest days of new platforms. The platform is just simple so it is easy to envision middleware.

Steven Sinofsky • 230. MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?

Sara

Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels

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Tom So

When you solve problems, you get customers. When you give people better stories about themselves, you build movements. When you give them something to defend, you create evangelists.

Elan Miller • The dinner party test

Sara

The Dos and Don’ts of DORA Metrics

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Andrés

Many people who first entered senior roles in 2010-2020 are finding current roles a lot less fun. There are a number of reasons for this. First, managers were generally evaluated in that period based on their ability to hire, retain and motivate teams. The current market doesn’t value those skills particularly highly, but instead prioritizes a diff

Will Larson • Career advice in 2025.

Sara

Make explanations ADEPT: Use an Analogy, Diagram, Example, Plain-English description, and then a Technical description.

Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method – BetterExplained

Sara

I want you to consider instead the possibility that Waterfall came to exist, and continues to exist, for the convenience of managers: those who need you to promise them something specific, and then deliver exactly what you promised them, when you promised you’d deliver it.

doriantaylor.com • Agile as Trauma

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