Stepping up from an IC to managing other ICs is no easy feat. But brace yourself because the real surprise comes when you level up again—to managing managers!
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Stepping up from an IC to managing other ICs is no easy feat. But brace yourself because the real surprise comes when you level up again—to managing managers!
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Episode 4: Hypergrowth leadership, the pendulum swing and attention management for managers with Phil Calçado
Episode description
In this episode, I chat an engineer director who has done the pendulum swing (from manager to individual contributor to back to being a manager), working in hypergrowth environments and one of the earliest microservices architectures where he first wrong about the Backend For Front-Ends (BFF) pattern and what he's doing now to help engineering managers.
Guest Biography
Phil has been leading software teams in their hyper-growth stages since the early 2000s. He headed product engineering at SoundCloud and DigitalOcean, and platform engineering at Meetup and SeatGeek. He is currently a co-founder of Outropy.ai, the Copilot for Leaders.
Transcript and show notes available here: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-004-phil-calcado/
15/09/2023
50:43
Episode 3: Global, remote management and the impact of coaching with Cate Huston
Episode description
In this episode, I chat to an experienced engineering leader who has worked in a global, remote context managing other managers, has done formal co-active coaching training and discusses its relevance to managing other managers.
Guest Biography
Cate Huston is an engineering director at DuckDuckGo and an advisor at Glowforge. She previously worked at Automattic where she led the mobile Jetpack and Developer Experience teams and Cate administers the new-ish manager slack and writes regularly. She is currently writing the O'Reilly book, "The Engineering Leader", coming out in early 2024.
Transcript and show notes available here: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-003-cate-huston/
13/09/2023
42:21
Episode 2: From high-growth startup to high-growth Shopify with James Stanier
Episode description
In this episode, I chat to the person who literally wrote a book on Engineering Management, about his journey into managing other managers in a high-growth startup, and the experience of moving to a massive fast-moving company at Shopify.
Guest Biography
James Stanier is a Director of Engineering at Shopify. He is also the author of Become an Effective Software Manager and Effective Remote Work. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and runs theengineeringmanager.com
Transcript and show notes available here: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-002-james-stanier/
12/09/2023
51:29
Episode 1: Welcome to the podcast
Welcome to the Managing Managers podcast. This short episode is an introduction to your host, Patrick Kua, for the podcast and the intention behind it.
Transcript and show notes available here: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-001-welcome/
Stepping up from an IC to managing other ICs is no easy feat. But brace yourself because the real surprise comes when you level up again—to managing managers!
Curious to know how top tech leaders made this leap? Join our host, the experienced Pat Kua, as he delves into the strategies and stories of leaders in tech who’ve mastered the art of managing managers. 🎙️💡