Effective Engineering Leaders
James SamuelNewsletter for technical, people, product, and delivery leadership, for tech leads, new managers, and senior and staff engineers considering a leap into engineering management and leadership.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 57 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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When an Engineering Team’s Execution Becomes Unhealthy
A team can quickly go from a healthy state to an unhealthy state.
A quarter ago, a team might be healthy and well equipped to achieve it goals; this quarter, it might have moved from healthy to unhealthy.
Effective Engineering Leaders is...
On managing up
People often think that a manager manages those they lead. But that is only half the job. An important part of a manager’s role is also to manage up to the people who lead them.
Effective Engineering Leaders is a reader-supported publicati...
Maintaining Context as a Manager and Leveraging AI Agents Part 2
In the first part of this post, I wrote about my system for gathering and organizing information. You can find it here.
Information gathering is one of the fundamental activities of a manager. Whether you work in tech or another industry,...
Maintaining Context as a Manager Part 1
In a previous post, I wrote that information gathering is one of the day-to-day activities of managers. Today, I’m sharing my approach to storing and recalling information.
The larger your scope as an engineering leader, the less you can r...
On Managing Your Your Energy
Andy Grove, in his book High Output Management, wrote:
“A manager’s work is never done. There is always more to be done, more that should be done, always more than can be done.”
On the surface, this sounds almost impossible. Surely, at so...
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Engineering Manager @ Reddit, Ex-Head of Engineering @ TIER. Opinions are mine and not those of my employers. I write about people leadership, product leadership, technical leadership, and delivery leadership.
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