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How Engineering Management is like Jenna Zeigen - @ zeigenvector - October 20, 2016 - BrooklynJS Hello front row. Allow me to introduce you to some virtual cats! Im an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean Mr. Meowgi Princess Jenna Zeigen @

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How Engineering Management is like

Jenna Zeigen - @zeigenvector - October 20, 2016 - BrooklynJS

Hello front row. Allow me to introduce you to some virtual cats!

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I’m an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean

Mr. Meowgi

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Princess

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Jenna Zeigen @zeigenvector

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You can attract and entertain top and rare cats with shiny toys

Katmandu

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But you can only keep the cats around if you keep them nourished.

Saint Purrtrick

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You decide what toys to put out when.

Billy the Kitten

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Different cats have different strengths and weaknesses and personalities

Joe DiMeowgio

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A metric for success is the visible output of the team

Pickles

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The cats generally give back proportionally to what you invest in them

Xerxes IX

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But sometimes there’s a Tubbs...

Tubbs

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But here’s the twist...

Spots

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The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys...

Spooky

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The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys...

Bob the Cat

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The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys...

Lady Meow-Meow

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The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys...

Sassy Fran

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The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys...

(me)

Pepper

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She talks to other cats to learn all the stuff about her fellow cats.

Gabriel

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She helps the cats become better at things they want to be better at

Fred

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Sounds like Pokemon!

Peaches

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Team work is the work.

Mack

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The engineering manager protects her cat team

Willie

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Misty

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Ganache

Resources

www.elidedbranches.com/2015/10/notes-on-startup-engineering-

management.html

larahogan.me/blog/manager-levels/
www.oreilly.com/ideas/ask-the-cto-protecting-my-team-in-times-of-stress
larahogan.me/blog/first-one-on-one-questions/
codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/

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Jeeves and Sapphire

jenna.is/managing-virtual-cats

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Thanks!

Jenna Zeigen - @zeigenvector