Writing code & wrangling cats - from developer to manager and back w/ Marilyn Cole

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English - June 09, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MB
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Highlights:

People think if you don't have structure, then you don't have politics. When in fact, when you don't have structure, there's more political wrangling that happens because it's all implicit. - 3:37
Being a manager makes you more introspective. - 8:45
on blameless retrospectives: "assume everyone made the best decision they could with what they knew at the time" - 10:05A lot of managers with programming experience end up building analytics stuff to still scratch that itch. - 14:45
If you want to make the leap to management, make sure that interest is known. - 16:45
lots of managers make the mistake of wanting to do the work - 20:05
How to Model engineer skills using Dungeons & Dragons attributes - 22:00

Stuff we talked about

Questions for our first 1-on-1
The art of blameless retrospectives
Redash: open-source analytics dashboards
Maker's schedule, manager's schedule
The Medium Snowflake
Manager Readmes

Twitter Mentions

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