Travis Kimmel on What Makes a Good Engineering Manager

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Travis Kimmel of Gitprime about the challenges of being an engineering manager, the value of metrics and how to use them wisely

Why listen to this podcast:

• There is lots of information about the “stuff” of engineering, but very little on the human processes of engineering
• Without a data layer that gives insight into the process the manager needs to interrupt the flow of work to understand what’s happening
• The difficulty in running an engineering team is ensuring that the impulse to build is aligned with the overall business goals
• The state of nature for engineering is a group of people building interesting things that make sense from a business value perspective – if any of these point stops being true then dysfunction creeps in
• The data generated by a team should be consumed by the manager of that team and they use it to tell the story of how the team is doing to others

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