Engineering Leadership in Turbulent Times
summary
Practical tactics for chaotic engineering leadership: use the three threes (what to learn in the first 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks) to build context; harvest and publicize good engineering fixes with harvest and amplify; make technical Kaizen first‑class work in quarterly planning and assign owners so POs stop blocking upgrades; use visibility (internal talks, posters, observability) — small moves like “testing on the toilet” scale (one example claims Google changes ~50% of its codebase monthly); ensure succession via the holiday test so the team keeps running when leadership leaves.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:07Technical leadership
- 8:00The role of trust in teams
- 11:15Building resilient teams
- 22:06What great leaders do differently
- 30:05What to do about product owners?
- 36:43Supporting teams through change
- 43:00How to make change stick
- 47:47Takeaways
- 49:09Outro
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