Duncan Oyevaar believes in the power of business engineering. He has seen that organizations can dramatically improve themselves by equipping their engineers with excellent business skills, and he’s got the data to prove it. Today, we talk about why engineers need to understand a business’ financials, value stream mapping, continuous improvement, and the importance of listening to your staff.
In this special edition, I tease the next episodes of the show and make a major announcement about the future of the Engineering & Leadership project.
Joseph Seiler has spent his career helping engineers do incredible work by empowering them and stepping back to let them do incredible work – first as the president and CEO of his own company, and today as a Master Certified Coach. Joseph’s experience provides incredible lessons learned for engineering managers of all stripes, most especially the value of coaching as an engineering manager.
Peter Drucker, the father of modern management thinking once said that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” That wasn’t a knock on how important strategy is, rather, he’s emphasizing the importance that culture plays within an organization.
Today’s guest would share that sentiment. Today, I speak with Dan Langevin, the CTO of Vericred about the role culture plays in a technical organization, and specifically about the importance of both accountability and curiosity for Vericred’s engineering team.
Meetings are a fact of organizational life. The fact that so few of us have ever been trained to run excellent meetings is a bit of a shock. We all know they’re needed, and we all know they’re mostly painful and wasteful. If you follow even a few of the ideas in this episode, you and your team will be more engaged, efficient, and effective in your work.
