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Posts about life, engineering management, the web industry, and things that I've been up to
2020
Starting a new manager relationship
28 October 2020
Starting a new management relationship can be a turbulent time on both sides, and we want to do our best to minimise disruption as much as possible. In this post I'll talk through some steps to help smooth over the process.
Questions to ask on a new job search
3 October 2020
During my search for a new role, I kept a list of questions to use during the process. In case they're useful to me in the future (or anyone else for that matter!), I wanted to write a post with the key ones.
A framework for focusing your learning goals
11 September 2020
“What should I learn? Technology moves so fast! There’s so many options! How will I ever get through everything?”
6 September 2020
As you may have seen from a few mentions, I'm soon going to be starting a new role. I’m very happy and excited to say that from October I’ll be working as Head of Engineering at Farewill!
30 August 2020
Throughout September I’m going to be holding some free coaching sessions aimed at supporting folks from groups that are under-represented in the tech industry. Here’s a bit more about what that looks like and how it’ll work.
Scaling yourself as an engineering manager
24 August 2020
When you think about “scaling” in the context of engineering, does your mind jump to thinking about systems, or about growing your organisation? Or maybe both! These are topics that have had a lot written about them, but what I’d like to talk about in this post is from the perspective of you as an individual: how to scale yourself as a manager.
23 July 2020
In this post I talk about flipping around a common management tactic - the PIP - to help individuals move through periods where they’re feeling unhappy at work
The different stages of an engineering management career (to date!)
26 May 2020
I’ve recently had conversations with some engineers who want to know more about what my day-to-day looks like, and what my path has been to get here. I thought I’d write a post in case it’s useful to others.
29 April 2020
We’re collectively living through a very strange time at the moment. Sometimes it’s hard to answer the question “how are you?” honestly, because you don't actually know.
13 February 2020
As a manager, navigating the path of building friendships and support networks at work can be more complicated than we may initially expect.