Managing at the threshold: Examining our principles in a moment of change
summary
Argues that engineering management pivots around concrete events: circa 2009 the rise of Stack Overflow, GitHub, AWS/Heroku and Twitter changes how teams work and leads Google to publish Project Oxygen (eight manager qualities); 2020 brings remote work, the Great Resignation and then rehiring rollbacks. Recommends a simple guiding principle—“do the right thing”—and a four‑step practice notice think persuade proceed to judge ambiguous tradeoffs and act when processes fail.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:41Engineering management shift 2009
- 9:01COVID-19 and Great Resignation
- 14:39Liminal spaces in change
- 21:19Collective decisions shape industry
- 23:07Principles in uncertain times
- 27:19Navigating thresholds
- 29:24Call to action
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