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Coming soon...
#LeadDevLive
!
We're bringing you two days of engineering leadership talks and panel discussions to help you lead your teams through uncertainty.
Registration opens next week and will be completely free 🙌
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Create a better team environment where everyone is on the same page and working towards the same goals by learning as a group with our
#LeadDevTogether
courses for engineering managers.
#softwareengineer
#techleadership
#techlead
#techleaders
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📢 Announcing
#LeadDevLive
!
A two-day online event for engineering leaders to connect and learn how to lead through these uncertain times.
Did we mention it’s free to attend? Register today and join us on April 7 & 8.
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In this article
@ericastanley
explains how you can build the foundations for your team to be antiracist, and how you can inject antiracism into your everyday interactions.
Read her insights here to create a better tech industry.
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The
#LeadDevLondon
videos are live 📽 Check out all the talks for insights on team friction, hiring diverse teams, Artificial Intelligence, building security culture, leading through rapid growth, and lots more!
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'Few senior engineers should be individual contributors. Most should cause a clear improvement across their team.'
An engineering career path can become easily blurred.
@whereistanya
sets out to clarify roles and explain how they differ as you level up.
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If you're looking to add to your technical leadership reading list, we've compiled the books recommended by
#LeadDevLondon
speakers last month: 📚
We'd love to hear which books are on your must-read list – reply to this tweet with your favourites!
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‘It’s easy to get recognition for fighting fires, but hard to get recognition for preventing fires. Here are some strategies for making your Staff+ superpowers visible to your company.’ – with
@harterrt
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📢 The
#LeadDevLondon
CFP is open!
Everyone has something to share – and we’d love The Lead Developer to be the conference where you choose to do it. Whether you're a first-time or seasoned speaker, we want to hear from you.
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🌟🌟🌟 That's a wrap for
#LeadDevLondon
2019 🌟🌟🌟
Stay tuned for photos, videos, and slides coming soon!
Thanks so much to all our speakers, sponsors, staff, and attendees ❤️
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Have you seen our line-up for
#LeadDevLondon
next week? We can't wait to hear from all our fantastic speakers including
@alicegoldfuss
,
@mseckington
,
@jenny_duckett
and
@ClareSudbery
🤩
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Leadership ≠ Management
There's more to leadership than people management.
Join us at
#StaffPlusLive
on September 14, as we explore how to be an effective senior individual contributor. Hosted by
@whereistanya
&
@blanquish
.
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Who's joining us at
#LeadDevLondon
2019? You're in for a treat with two days of inspiring, practical talks to help on your journey as a tech lead! Featuring a superstar speaker lineup including
@ClareSudbery
,
@SalFreudenberg
,
@SBinLondon
and
@NerdNeha
🤩
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Looking to supercharge your technical leadership skills in 2019? Check out the workshops at
#LeadDevLondon
🚀
• Be a brilliant people developer -
@Geek_Manager
• Tech Lead skills for developers -
@patkua
• Demystifying management -
@lara_hogan
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The
#LeadDevNewYork
2019 talk videos + conference photos are now available!
📹 Videos:
📸 Photos:
📄 Slides & resources:
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Joining us at
#LeadDevLondon
this week? Here are a few initiatives to help make the conference experience safe, welcoming and inclusive. Thread ⬇️
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📢 Announcing: a brand new event for Managers of Managers!
We’re excited to launch an exclusive event for Directors, VPs of Engineering and CTOs in London, featuring a hand-crafted programme addressing the unique challenges faced at this level of leadership.
#ManagerOfManagers
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🎉 We're VERY excited to welcome our
#LeadDevNewYork
speakers 🎉
Join us in April for insights on cross-platform engineering, crucial career conversations, remote teams, engineering manager burnout, and so much more!
Meet the speakers:
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LeadDev Live is back on August 12 – and it’s free to attend 🎉
Join us as we dive into eliminating hero culture, building “boring” software, preparing for financial uncertainty, and so much more!
Hosted by
@anjuan
@geek_manager
@sallylait
!
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LeadDev stands with the Black community against racism and injustice.
As a community of engineering leaders, we recognise the influence our work has on tech teams, businesses and individuals around the world.
Here are a few ways we’re working to support the Black community ⬇️
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🇬🇧
#LeadDevLondon
2019 is now live! We're thrilled to welcome the fantastic
@techgirl1908
&
@patkua
as our first announced speakers.
📅 Dates: 11 & 12 June
📣 CFP deadline: 7 December
🤝 Scholarship deadline: 8 February
🎟 Early Bird tickets on sale now
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Now available:
#LeadDevLive
session videos 🎉
Catch up on all the engineering leadership talks and panels from our first online conference!
Watch for free ➡️
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We would like to welcome you to our first-ever event curated for very senior ICs, staff and principal engineers! 🙌
Join us at
#StaffPlusLive
on September 14 with hosts
@whereistanya
&
@blanquish
and many more fantastic speakers.
Register for free
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We've just published the talks from
#LeadDevAustin
2019!
Check them out for insights on building high performing teams, supporting new parents, running better 1:1s with a distributed team, and so much more.
📸
📽
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'Promoting any engineer to principal without demonstrative skills in more than just ‘the code’ would be a disservice to the team.'
@dbsmasher
shares her experience as a Principal Engineer and why leadership skills are so crucial to the role.
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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone
#LeadDevNewYork
until 11 & 12 August 2020.
For more details about the situation and FAQs, please check out our website.
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Don't miss our recording of Engineering Management for the Rest of Us: Sarah Drasner in conversation with knowledge from
@suzanbond
@sarah_edo
in our Bookmarked series
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Snapshot of
@dbsmasher
opening up this
#StaffPlusNewYork
with how the world is your oyster as a Principal engineer
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We’re also planning
#LeadDevLive
: two full days of live online content on April 7 & 8! Free for the community ♥️
Stay tuned for more details coming soon.
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🎉🎉 Double speaker announcement 🎉🎉
We're VERY excited to welcome all our new speakers who'll share insights on scaling, architecture, parental leave, psychological safety and lots more!
🇺🇸
#LeadDevAustin
:
🇩🇪
#LeadDevBerlin
:
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'As a codebase gets larger, tech debt is the growing monster that impacts a team’s ability to perform.'
@cassidoo
shares her guide to managing and reducing tech debt.
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🌟🌟🌟A HUGE THANKS to our delegates, speakers & sponsors for making
#LeadDevLondon
possible 🌟🌟🌟
Credits:
Chair
@Geek_Manager
Organiser
@whiteoctevents
Captions
@whitecoatcapxg
Filming
@AOTV_
Production
@On_Productions
Photos: Katura Jensen
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#LeadDevLondon
wouldn't be possible without the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of our wonderful speakers 😍
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Author of 'The Manager's Path',
@skamille
, shares her guide on evaluating your team's performance.
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We're thrilled to announce the first
#LeadDevMeetup
!
📅 6 September
📍 MOO offices, London
🌟
@avharms
, Victoria Puscas,
@Elfiggo
Find out more & RSVP:
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'To be a great manager, you can't afford to let the ICs on your team feel that they have no career path, so it's up to you to manage this well.' – by
@skamille
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'Remember that your primary job is to be interruptible and available, so as a manager, writing code is a luxury that comes last.' –
@mipsytipsy
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'As a codebase gets larger, tech debt is the growing monster that impacts a team’s ability to perform.'
@cassidoo
shares her guide to managing and reducing tech debt.
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Challenge yourself: it's possible to be a mentor, a coach, and a sponsor.
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All the videos from The Lead Developer 2016 are now available online! Watch for free here & feel free to share:
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'How can someone who hasn’t designed their whole identity around programming keep working when challenged? The answer is that they are working in a flow state – the state of consciousness where individuals do their best work.' -
@sarah_edo
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#LeadDevSanFrancisco
has officially launched 🚀
🗓 Conference: October 7 & 8
📝 CFP deadline: March 23
🎟 Tickets go live: Jan 27
🌟
@AishaBlake
@umanagineer
@whereistanya
@mikebroberts
@lizthegrey
@lara_hogan
@andrewhao
@nmeans
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As engineering and product leaders,
@lara_hogan
&
@iamdeepa
worked together to revitalise a cross-functional product organisation. At
#LeadDevNewYork
they'll share the tactics you can use to improve the health of your own organisation.
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📢 We're incredibly excited to announce that The Lead Developer is returning to Austin on December 6, 2018 and that the wonderful
@lara_hogan
will be keynoting! 🎉
We hope you can all join us there!
#LeadDev
#LeadDevAustin
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The career path for an engineer can sometimes be a clouded one, and in this article
@dbsmasher
demonstrates in particular why the role of Principal Engineer isn't just another Senior Engineer role.
Read her insights to help clear it up in your mind too.
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'As a codebase gets larger, tech debt is the growing monster that impacts a team’s ability to perform.'
@cassidoo
shares her guide to managing and reducing tech debt.
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On the
#LeadDevLondon
stage right now is
@serahkiburu
sharing some great thoughts on why accessibility matters, solving for all, and solving for long 💡
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🌟
#LeadDevLondon
speakers are here! 🌟
The jam-packed programme features topics like breaking down silos, scaling distributed culture, letting people go, neurodiversity in tech, green tech, goal setting for managers, advocating for change & much more!
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All the speaker videos from The Lead Developer New York 2017 are now online!
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The
#LeadDevLondon
CFP closes on 7 December! Confirmed speakers receive:
✈️ Travel & accommodation
🎟 VIP ticket for a +1
🎁 Honorarium
🥗 Speaker dinner
🎤 Optional speaker training
🌟 Support for a personal carer or interpreter
Find out more & apply:
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'Suddenly, a new request comes in. It could be from your manager, your product manager, or another team. And it doesn’t seem to line up with the important things your team is doing. What do you do?' -
@skamille
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The Lead Developer 2016 is happening in London on 23 & 24 June and will be a 2-day conference this time!
🎉
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🎉🎉🎉
Dates announced for The Lead Developer New York 2017, and Call for Papers now open!!!
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Becoming a manager and losing the tangible evidence of a hard day's work can be a difficult transition to grasp, but
@nmeans
shares in this article how you can regain the satisfaction from your days of writing code.
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'Staff+ roles are ambiguous, and new hires often struggle to decode the precise combination of focus, skills, and framing they’ll need to succeed. For this reason, we started an effort to build Stripe's Staff+ engineering community.' – with
@scott_triglia
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It's time to meet the
#LeadDevNewYork
speakers 🙌
We can't wait for April 2020 when we'll be treated to more than two dozen talks on code reviews, observability, technical debt, imposter syndrome, inclusive team building, and so much more!
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We’ve been working on something you’re going to love.
Take a deep dive into seven core aspects of engineering leadership, hosted by
@anjuan
and subject specialist co-hosts. Join us – we'll make a bigger difference by coming together.
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Improve the reliability, maintainability, and feature velocity of your products with Site Reliability Engineering and Error Budgets.
@lizthegrey
introduces us to the basics of implementing SRE practices in your organisation –
#LeadDevNewYork
–
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As an engineering manager, how can I best support the people around me?
Join the live discussion to learn more with
@suzanbond
and
@sarah_edo
on July 13.
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What are the right questions to ask when prioritizing engineering work? Kathryn Koehler from
@NetflixEng
breaks down how to get her team focused on longer-term initiatives
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🌟🌟🌟That's a wrap for
#LeadDevLive
🌟🌟🌟
1️⃣ Make sure you subscribe to the LeadDev mailing list for more engineering leadership content & events.
2️⃣ We've recorded all the sessions & will share the videos & resources very soon.
3️⃣ Share your write-ups with us tagging us
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With events accelerating so quickly in Europe concerning the COVID-19 outbreak, we have now taken the decision that our community will be safer if we postpone the
#LeadDevLondon
conference to 1 & 2 February 2021.
Read the full statement & FAQs:
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#LeadDevNewYork
is back!
🗓 Dates: April 7 & 8, 2020 (yes, 2 days!)
🌟 Introducing:
@rondoftw
@bryanl
@noopkat
📝 CFP now open
🎟 Tickets available next week
Find out more:
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#LeadDevLondon
is back on 24-25 June 2020! Mark your calendars, you don't want to miss the technical leadership event of the year.
🎤 CFP deadline: 13 January
📝 Scholarship deadline: 13 March
🎟 Early Bird tickets available now
❤️ Premier Sponsor:
@skyscannereng
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Managing underperformance, addressing bad behaviour, and even letting people go are inevitable parts of your job. But your ability in these conversations will likely shape you as a manager and leader.
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Get ready to hear from
@engineering_bae
, Engineering Manager
@Spotify
, as she dives into how you can do your best to ensure your team has psychological safety and the proper processes to set yourselves up for success in a remote-first world.
Save your ...
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'A truly valuable Principal Engineer makes their whole team better.'
@dbsmasher
explores the 'principal' role through her own experience and shares how it goes beyond a typical senior engineering position.
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#LeadDevLive
the virtual conference for engineering leaders is back on September 14 🎉
The event is bigger than ever, featuring a brand new track for senior individual contributors:
#StaffPlusLive
!
Explore the schedule & register for free.
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Today's the day... it's
#LeadDevLondon
🙌 Can't make it to the conference? We're tweeting all day so you can follow along.
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Studies have shown that often mentoring doesn’t help to progress people in the way that we hope. But what else works, and how can you put it into practice?
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Our subject experts are shaping and co-hosting the in-depth engineering leadership sessions at
#LeadDevTogether
.
Meet the team:
@patkua
@tsunamino
@whereistanya
@frantziful
@attackgecko
@Geek_Manager
@SarahM
@lara_hogan
.
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It's time to LAUNCH
#LeadDevBerlin
🚀🚀🚀
🗓 6 December 2019
🌟
@patkua
and
@TheAmyCode
📝CFP open until 13 May
🎟 Tickets available this Friday
💌 Join the mailing list to be the first to get all the updates
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'Communication is an essential part of leadership, and written communication is particularly crucial.' -
@sarah_edo
#engineeringleadership
#techlead
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We've just wrapped up Day 1 of
#LeadDevLive
! ❤️
Thank you to everyone who tuned in and we're looking forward to meeting back tomorrow for some more content and amazing conversations.
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Videos from this year's conference will be available in the next few days – we're just making the final edits 🎥
#leaddev
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Stop pushing ICs with leadership skills into management, and start supporting their career along the 'technical track'.
Readmore of
@whereistanya
's insights here
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A look at the common inflection points in a senior engineering manager’s career trajectory, and some recommended next steps by
@mipsytipsy
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'I see little evidence that superior engineering skills translate into greater management aptitude or better engineering outcomes.' –
@mipsytipsy
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'As a codebase gets larger, tech debt is the growing monster that impacts a team’s ability to perform.'
@cassidoo
shares her guide to managing and reducing tech debt.
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We're thrilled to have
@beerops
,
@skamille
,
@lara_hogan
,
@nmeans
&
@anjuan
confirmed to speak at The Lead Developer New York 2017!
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At
#LeadDevLondon
you can join
@Geek_Manager
,
@lara_hogan
, or
@patkua
for in-depth workshops before/after the conference to take your technical leadership to the next level 🚀
Check out all the details and book your tickets:
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The
#LeadDevLondon
CFP closes at midnight (GMT)! Speakers receive:
✈️ Travel & accommodation
🎟 VIP ticket for a +1
🎁 Honorarium
🎤 Public speaking training
🚕 Expenses
🌟 Travel & accommodation for a carer or interpreter or access to local support
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🌈 Happy Pride Month 🌈
Show your pride and allyship at
#LeadDevLondon
next week with a rainbow lanyard and badge stickers. And don’t forget to add pronoun and communication preference stickers to your badge too!
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“This thing is a community, it’s not just an event, and we really value having you in it.” -
@Geek_Manager
#LeadDevLondon
📸 Photos:
📽 Videos:
✉️ Newsletter:
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Coming in hot 🔥
#LeadDevLondon
speakers are here!
Thank you for raising the bar yet again, as a community you submitted an incredible number of high calibre talk proposals.
Join us in June for insights from this fantastic lineup:
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.
@ThoughtWorks
is capturing the zeitgeist of
#LeadDevAustin
by facilitating a Tech Radar exercise – here are some sneak preview pics before they digitize it with the open-sourced tool
( )
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The
#LeadDevNewYork
call for proposals is now open. All confirmed speakers receive:
✈️ Travel expenses
🏨 Accommodation
🌟 Dedicated support throughout the process
📸 Photos & video of your talk
Find out more & apply:
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Meet the industry-leading steering committee who are shaping the programme of our brand new conference 🌟
@lara_hogan
@kstewart
@mad_typist
@lolarobot
@cmccarrick
@mariagutierrez
@skamille
@geek_manager
@kevingoldsmith
@patkua
#ManagerOfManagers
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Do you have something to share with our community? Have you found some secret magic in the way you’re working that your peers would benefit from? Or have you got something radically wrong and learnt from it?
If so, we’d love to hear from you.
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Everyone knows
@adriennefriend
is the Queen of 1:1s, so who better to write a two-part series for us demonstrating how we can up our 1:1 game and be the best managers for our direct reports?
Read part one here for the foundations of 1:1s
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Who are your favourite engineering leaders to follow on Twitter?
Comment below
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You can’t grow and nurture your teams without also growing yourself. But why is that often the last thing that engineering leaders get to?
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The first few videos from this year's conference have been released! 🎥 Here's the playlist:
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