Empathy The Engineering Director Paradox I love to code. Like all passionate engineers; if left alone, I can think of nothing better than to build new things. To create wonderful, elegant, simple solutions. I spent many man-years on
Empathy Should happiness be a goal at work? Your job is what you make it. Go into it with a bad attitude, and that will be reflected back to you. Be positive, help others and solve problems together and you'
Team Taking notes in your one-on-ones - it's tricky You should always take notes in your one-on-ones with the team, but how you do that is a tricky question to answer. Do your brain a favor Just the act of taking notes
About Which kind of Engineering Director are you? And why you need help. Many titles are given to our role. I've been called Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, Senior Director of Engineering and Vice President of Engineering - and when I interviewed at Amazon,
Team It's ok to admit you're wrong As I was writing Programmers really need open floor plans [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/programmers-really-need-open-floor-plans/] I found myself thinking about a story that I had been confidently telling for years as an example
Communication Helping Departments work together As well as Helping Engineering teams work together [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/helping-teams-work-together/] you'll also review the way departments interact at a higher level. Soon after meeting your team [https://www.
Culture Publish an Engineering weekly newsletter As soon as you can, start sending a weekly newsletter to the Engineering team. And by 'as soon as you can', I mean start this week. > The aim is to
Team Identifying personalities on your Engineering team One of the first tasks for you to do as Director of Engineering is to quickly identify the personality types of your team members. One-on-ones [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/one-on-ones/] is a perfect
Culture Team too big for one-on-ones? I received some great feedback about One-on-Ones with your team [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/one-on-ones/] today. In that article I said that: > At some number of people - probably between 20 and
Culture One-on-Ones with your team After your team introduction, one-on-one's are the next item on your agenda. They are the most important part of your job. Through one-on-ones you will find the true story behind the
