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The Care and Feeding of Your Engineering Manager Jenna Zeigen • MongoDB World 2018

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What does your Engineering Manager do all day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Fold

tl;dr meetings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_cat

Weekly 1:1s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapura_cat

https://flic.kr/p/D118q3 Career Growth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_cat Hiring

Maintaining the Team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_cat

Dealing with Conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_communication

Short-Term Project Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_cafe

Longer-Term Planning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkinese_cat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_cat Meetings with Stakeholders

How can you help your Engineering Manager? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_cat

Have empathy for them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Fold

Give Your Manager a Break “This is a job. Your manager will be stressed out sometimes. She’ll be imperfect. She will say [silly] things, or do things that feel unfair or harmful to you.” The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier

Feedback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_communication

Weekly 1:1s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_cat

Career growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_cat

Resources Camille Fournier - The Manager’s Path - http://www.elidedbranches.com/ Michael Lopp - Managing Humans - http://randsinrepose.com Lara Hogan - https://larahogan.me/blog/

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