Jade Rubick - Engineering Leadership

This recounts the organizational history of Mini-Ms.

Low trust High trust Focus on accountability Focus on learning Doesn’t require alignment or context Requires alignment and lots of context Command and control Autonomy and alignment Scary to reveal problems, risk.

I'm often asked about my advice for new directors.

Process: a series of actions or events performed to make something or achieve a particular result – Cambridge English Dictionary Today, we delve into the great debate about Process.

This contains my experience choosing tooling for an engineering handbook.

Today we cover a variety of ways that managers uplevel each other by meeting in groups.

In the last post, we looked at how Mini-Ms work and what they are.

Today, I would like to share a management practice we developed at New Relic.

Introduction Management is a deep topic, and there isn't a formal program for learning.

Introduction As a consultant, I work at a lot of startups.

At some point, you begin to lead.

Today, I'll share a few thoughts on what makes a good project plan.

As a consultant, I have a view across many companies.

A common leadership mistake is process gates.

💩🛡️ Many new managers think their job is to “protect the team”.

Today, I'd like to cover the weekly life of a project manager.

When you're working in a group, you need to know how to coordinate.

Today we're going to do a whirlwind tour of compensation.

Today, we'll talk about managing change, and how to reduce obstacles as you do so.

Some people naturally shine in meetings.

Today I’m going to share my favorite way to organize specialist teams that want other teams to do work for them.

Most engineering organizations focus on delivering projects.

Why set up a DSLR for videoconferencing?

What should an Engineering Manager own?

It's inevitable that your team will need things from other teams.

What is embedding?

Platform teams underestimate how much pain they cause when they deprecate their offerings.

Today, we'll talk about the use of Liaisons.

Goal frameworks are a way to create a set of goals within the organization that attempt to be coherent across all the groups that need to contribute to that goal.

Self-service is arguably the most important team coordination model you can use.

The Service Provider is one of the most common and least effective coordination models in software engineering teams.

Tenets are mental shortcuts that help an organization make decisions faster.

As an organizational leader, you’ll face situations where you need to improve the way people work together.

“We need to break down silos between departments and get people to collaborate better” -- almost every leader everywhere.

This is a part of a series of articles on hiring and recruiting.

This is a part of a series of articles on hiring and recruiting.

This is a part of a series of articles on hiring and recruiting.

This is a part of a series of articles on hiring and recruiting.

This is a part of a series of articles on hiring and recruiting.

Tips for startup hiring and recruiting I'm going to share some practices that I don't see used very often.

Exploration and exploitation in technical standards In engineering organizations, we live in constant tension between Exploration and Exploitation.

The day I became brilliant It was a proud day for me, but I remember it for the bizarre twist it took.

One of the challenges of dealing with a diverse workplace is that all of your employees have different vacation needs: A Jewish employee may want Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur off.

Many people offer advice for getting the best out of Slack: use threads, post things in public channels, and use a naming convention for your channels.

A rule of thumb is that a meeting with more than eight people isn’t a decision-making meeting.

Operating under a shared reality is a competitive advantage, but most teams share state poorly.

This is a part of a series of posts on improving equity at your company.

Managers are in the best position to cause misery As managers, we're in the best position to cause sadness on our teams.

Over the years, I’ve developed a set of practices that I’ve started calling “demo-driven development”.

I’d like to share the results of one of the most interesting management experiments I’ve been a part of.