Three Pillars

Recently an old friend, with great experience as an IC, PM and EM, called me to ask for some advice. He had been running his business for a while and took up a new role as an engineering manager after some time. “What areas do you focus on as an EM?, particularly when joining a new team”.

I divided the conversation into three pillars: strategy & inventory, technical (aka going deep) and career / personal

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Signal Vs Noise

One responsibility of engineers & especially leads is managing many channels of signals : emails, blog posts (internal and external), tags , push notifications, group chats, alerts from dashboards and more.

These signals tend to scale exponentially to the number of projects & people that you are responsible for.

Quickly you’ll need to set up a system to make sure that you are receiving high-signal information and filtering out low-signal noise. How do you do that?

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