What makes a great engineering manager? | Will Larson
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Will Larson currently serves as Carta's CTO. He was previously the CTO at Calm and worked at Stripe, Uber, Digg, and a few other places. In this video he goes over best engineering practices and engineering management.
Will Larson Books:
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track - www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Making Things Think: How AI and Deep Learning Power the Products We Use: www.holloway.com/b/making-thi...
Will's recommendations:
Thinking in Systems: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Syste...
Don't Think of an Elephant!: www.amazon.com/ALL-NEW-Dont-T...
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 What makes a great manager?
06:42 Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering
12:33 How to measure an engineering organization?
17:50 What are the commonalities of great engineering teams?
21:30 Is there a trend towards more nimble and smaller teams?
28:30 Investing in technical infrastructure
32:27 Serverless
37:10 Managing the energy of a team
41:40 Remote vs Hybrid
44:40 Engineering strategies
48:50 What makes a great staff engineer?
53:50 Book recommendations and conclusion
great video, totally underrated and deserves more views!
Some really good takes in here. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing, always great to hear Will speak, lots of visdom as usual.
Wow, what an amazing prognostication at 35:00. Now, just a year into the AI craze, that seems clairvoyant.
This was an excellent conversation. I learned a lot from this.
What a great talk. Really good advice and opinions
What an incredible, wonderful interview!
Great interview!
this was great.
`Rather than feeling motivated by like a moral sense of like justice` => That is the line where you lose your humanity
What metrics do you suggest tracking ?
1. Are your reports upskilling relative to their level at the org level. (Skill)
2. Are the reports contributing to completing complex features on time. (Management)
3. Are the reports collaborating with different people in the team. (Collaboration)
So when you say "engineers", what you actually mean are computer programmers or app developers, right? People with computer science related degrees, not engineering degrees, right?
I don't think companies like Uber and Digg have any PEs on staff. They probably don't even know what that is.
Energy management and discussions around staff engineer provides great insights.
Great resource.