Episode 17: Good Manager, Bad Manager
04/27/20 • 75 min
Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one...
We mentioned in this episode
- What is the role of a manager?
- What sort of manager are we talking about? Project / People / Function / Strategic / Change Management?
- Can an inexperienced manager be a good manager?
- Should it be a full-on move? Can it be a combo IC+M role? Does it scale?
- How to recognize a good manager
- What they do
- How you feel
- How to recognize a bad manager
- What they do
- How you feel
- Some stories from our past (good or bad that shaped us as people)
Reading recommendations:
- https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/
- https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300025.The_Ideal_Executive
References:
- https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
- https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-manager-path-camille-fournier
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45007872-97-things-every-engineering-manager-should-know
- https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/4-signs-that-a-boss-has-high-emotional-intelligence.html
- https://increment.com/teams/how-to-build-a-startup-engineering-team/
- https://hbr.org/2018/05/managers-cant-be-great-coaches-all-by-themselves
https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/feature/four-types-dysfunctional-manager
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Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one...
We mentioned in this episode
- What is the role of a manager?
- What sort of manager are we talking about? Project / People / Function / Strategic / Change Management?
- Can an inexperienced manager be a good manager?
- Should it be a full-on move? Can it be a combo IC+M role? Does it scale?
- How to recognize a good manager
- What they do
- How you feel
- How to recognize a bad manager
- What they do
- How you feel
- Some stories from our past (good or bad that shaped us as people)
Reading recommendations:
- https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/
- https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300025.The_Ideal_Executive
References:
- https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
- https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-manager-path-camille-fournier
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45007872-97-things-every-engineering-manager-should-know
- https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/4-signs-that-a-boss-has-high-emotional-intelligence.html
- https://increment.com/teams/how-to-build-a-startup-engineering-team/
- https://hbr.org/2018/05/managers-cant-be-great-coaches-all-by-themselves
https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/feature/four-types-dysfunctional-manager
Also Available on:
Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFM
Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Previous Episode
Episode 16: What is the role of Data Scientist?
Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and Noa Tamir are talking about what is the role of a data scientist
- What do people usually get wrong about this role?
- How can data scientists help, and who?
- What skills or mindset are important for this role?
- How do you get to it?
- What does it mean to be a junior in this role vs senior/experienced? What are the main big differences you learn along the way?
We mentioned in this episode
- Data Science is about Communication (empathy, humility), not programming or statistics
- A good point to talk about the different DS functions: DS for X vs. DS as X.
- Noa's talk in PyConDE
- Nonviolent communication
- Empathic listening
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Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Next Episode
Episode 18: On Call Engineering: How to do it and Smile with Charity Majors
On-Call Engineering: How to do it and smile
- Intro to the topic and Charity Majors
- What is on-call even? And why does it exist?
- Our Experiences with on-call?
- When did we start? How many years, some stories about our past and why we are talking about it
- How to onboard to on-call?
- Can it be done and actually be positive?
- What causes on-call to be negative then?
- What are the steps that can be done to improve it?
- What is incident management?
Charity Majors is the CTO of Honeycomb.io, @mipsytipy on Twitter, and blogs at https://charity.wtf/
Links Raz shared with his team:
- A story of being on call | Charity Majors | Monki Gras 2018
- Charity Majors â Observability and the Glorious Future, Iterate 2018
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