EL029 – Metric Madness: The 5 Most Common Problems With Engineering Metrics and How to Fix Them
Today, I’m going to share five common issues I see with engineering project metrics in professional practice, and how to address them on your projects.
Remote work for (non-software) engineering teams
[Note from Pat: The following is a guest post by Cristian Orozco. Cristian is one of the partners of an FE exam prep startup called PrepFE. He is a graduate in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee. Cristian’s experience includes working both...
EL020 – Five Things They Don’t Tell You When You Become an Engineering Manager
In this week’s episode, I share five things that nobody tells you when you transition into engineering management. It’s a summary of the biggest lessons learned in my own career, and how to put them to work for you.
EL017 – The CIA’s Guide to Making Engineers Miserable
Description In this episode, I explore a WWII-era guide to “Simple Sabotage” published by the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. It explains how disgruntled citizens of foreign nations can do little things to be disruptive and cause...
EL010 – Recognition: The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had
In this episode, I discuss the the importance of recognition, how it can influence your engineering team for the better, the risks of not recognizing your engineers, and simple – yet effective – ways to recognize people, even during a pandemic.
EL 006 – (Re)Introduction to the Engineering and Leadership Podcast
In this episode, we relaunch the podcast and tell you a bit about what to expect in the coming weeks.
