iteration

Engineering Management 🔨

Episode Summary

In this episode JP and John talk through engineering management principles, experiences and tips.

Episode Notes

Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.

• John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.
• JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.

Context:

John ran an agency for a couple years with a few developers + Designers, now runs a team of 12(ish) developers + Designers

Few Topics

IC vs Manager

• Code on the side only to show things
• Not coding for production
• Code outside of your core code

Right sizing a team

• Systems Thinking "Stocks + Flows" (Slack)

Mythical Man Month

• False premise: More heads = faster results

Remove bottlenecks

• Break up the work
  • Kitchen Metaphor
• Context + Documentation

Safety + Empowerment

• Permission + Trust
• Access

Leading by example

• "Law of the lid"

Don't scar on the first cut

Forbidden Conversations / honesty

Picks

• John: https://handmirror.app/
• JP: https://freezingcam.com/