Engineering Manager | Software and Data Engineering Background | Building passionate, and mature teams with organic methods and practices
Thoughts for first-time engineering managers series In a previous post, I wrote about why an Engineering manager must partner with the Product counterpart. It is our responsibility as managers to define and share the engineering behind the business goal including other technical priorities. Wait a minute, which technical priorities exactly?
When I became a manager for the first time, around 10 years ago at trivago, I believed the product manager should define all the goals for my team. After all, they knew what needed to be built and I had no clue about business concepts. That was wrong! If you
My school didn’t have a schoolyard; during physical education time, a whole group of 35 children would walk 10 minutes up the street to the nearest soccer field for years. Our mission was to get to the field to play Brilé: Brilé (dodgeball, prisoner ball…) In this game there
It's 2005, i'm walking down a dirt road by the sea, the path give you goosebumps as it is surrounded by a big group of wind turbines. How exciting!. It is my first interview for a "serious" job. There is a room full of