by Jen Oppenheimer | Oct 24, 2023 | Team Management
Building a good team is like solving a puzzle, as our guest Allison McMillan describes in this episode of the Scaling Tech Podcast. Allison is an engineering leadership consultant who works as a fractional VP of Engineering, and also consults to companies on...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Aug 15, 2023 | Team Management
Getting promoted into management can be the most exciting and terrifying moment of a person’s career. In this episode, we speak with Leadership Coach Jen Dary about her work training and mentoring managers, and the particularly difficult aspects of being a first...
by Jen Oppenheimer | May 2, 2023 | Developers, Team Management
How did you learn to become an engineering manager? If you’re like most people, you were largely self taught. Engineering managers are often promoted from senior engineering roles and they have probably not been taught best practices in managing teams. In this...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Apr 18, 2023 | Developers, Team Management
Change is constant, and our teams are no exception. So while we might strive for creating stable and consistent teams, the reality is it’s not possible to maintain those teams very long. Instead of being reactive to team changes, how can we more proactively harness...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Apr 4, 2023 | Developers, Team Management
Chris Dyer is an international keynote speaker, consultant, and a best-selling author for today’s work world, who inspires his audiences with straightforward delivery, insightful candor, and engaging humor. He is author of “The Power of Company Culture” and his most...
by Jen Oppenheimer | Mar 7, 2023 | Developers, Team Management
We’re all familiar with outsourcing or bringing in contractors from aboard when struggling to find technical talent. But do you know what Nearshoring is? More and more companies in North America are looking south towards technical talent in Central America, the...
