Engineering Management for everyone
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For this DevOps Meetup, Benjamin will join us for a talk about "Engineering Management for everyone"
Abstract:
Everybody has a manager, if they like it or not, if they actually work with them or not. Still, when reading typical IT focused web- or news sites there seems to be a somewhat common view, that managers are overhead at best and a hindrance at worst.
Based on my own experience, on the multiple occasions where I had to work with managers whom I felt did not manage (pun-intended) to support me and my team's work, I understand this view.
However, having been a manager for several different teams in the past, I feel this view is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
That's why I want to show there is, actually a lot of, value in engineering management. I will do this by giving an overview of what’s considered to be part of an engineering manager's job today. Be it proper 1on1-meetings, providing transparency into and context for a team's work or constructive and actionable feedback. I will also include what everyone on a team can do, to have a good foundation for a functional relationship with their managers. Because management is a two-way street.
About Benjamin:
I’m a generalist, with roughly 20 years experience of working in information technology. Starting out as a System- Administrator-turned-Software-Developer, I moved to Engineering Management positions over time. Some of the last roles I held include four years as CTO of Robo-Advisor Fintech vaamo, Teamlead in Marketing Agencies, Ruby on Rails Developer in a SaaS company.
In all my roles I aim to foster empathetic teams with a culture of continuous improvement, personal growth and leadership on all levels. I think it’s imperative to work with diverse and cross-functional teams in increments, in order to sustainably and continuously build relevant solutions.
Through my work in the software development community over the last years, organizing conferences and meetups, I’m well-connected in the community and delivered talks and workshops in a wide range of events.
For further infos on Benjamin, see https://cto.coffee
Agenda:
18:00 Welcome
18:15 Start of presentation
~ 19:15 Discussion, Pizza & Drinks
Many Kudos to our location and food sponsor https://www.zoi.de/