Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time - The Engineering Manager
We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.| The Engineering Manager
A collection of articles on managing managers, from landing your first role to growing further up the management career track.| The Engineering Manager
A selection of articles on growth. How can you be an even better manager who is even more valuable to your company? How can you push others to grow in their roles?| The Engineering Manager
Constraints are your friend: they help teams ship faster, do more with less, and drive some unconventional thinking.| The Engineering Manager
The org chart does not control the flow of communication. In fact, you're faster if you ignore it entirely.| The Engineering Manager
With a little bit of creativity, LLMs could be your new assistant. Here are ideas to help you improve your thinking to be a better leader.| The Engineering Manager
What does it mean to get into management in 2025? What is expected of you now compared to the last ten years?| The Engineering Manager
Sometimes your to-do list can make you not want to look at. However, you can use LLMs to kickstart your thinking on what to do next.| The Engineering Manager
We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.| The Engineering Manager
Writing to your team every week is a great way of building trust, calling out what's importantly, and letting people get to know you better.| The Engineering Manager
If you're running an organization, you need to make LLM adoption part of your strategy. If you don't, you'll be left behind.| The Engineering Manager
The classic question: should managers still code? Let's look at this in a little more detail. Being in the code is different from writing it.| The Engineering Manager
My daily system for gathering and processing information has evolved. I now work through a gather-decide-execute loop using Logseq.| The Engineering Manager
Macroeconomic changes, LLMs and efficiency. What should we be thinking about and doing as leaders going into 2025?| The Engineering Manager
Here's the books that I've written: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager and Effective Remote Work.| The Engineering Manager
Managers can delegate too much and lose control of their orgs and their output. Being in the details can be fun, empowering and impactful.| The Engineering Manager
Performance management season can be a real pain. But it's important not to lose sight of why we are doing it in the first place.| The Engineering Manager
Welcome to a little reboot of The Engineering Manager. I’m going to be trying out a few new things. Firstly, I’m going to get back into writing on a more regular cadence. It turns out that doing two books almost back to back is fairly time consuming. Who’d have thought? Secondly, I’ve migrated my mailing […]| The Engineering Manager
