Ryan Greenhall

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Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers who find time in the week to focus on their own skills development.

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers that spend more time listening than speaking 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers who deeply understand their domains architecture and participate in major design decisions 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers that write job ads like a marketeer writing landing page copy 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers thinking about retention as much as you think about hiring 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers taking action following employee engagement surveys 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers for for managing the systems of work and leading people 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers giving timely, specific & actionable feedback. 👋 Great feedback = Observed behaviour + Impact + suggestion/reflective question larahogan.me/blog/feedback-…

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers for thinking about retention as much as you think about hiring 👋

Happy Monday to all the Engineering Managers that know their product domain as well as their Product counterpart 👋

Day 1 at @CTOCraft @pingles’s warns us of the danger of “best practice” and advises a shift towards thinking about your specific problems and how to respond. Look at the number of deploys per month 👌

A theme from the 1st day at @CTOCraft conf. If you don’t create a strategy for your eng org…one of your exec peers will. Map your engineering strategy tightly to both product and business strategy. Collaborate. Don’t create one alone.

My favourite lesson in school.

@bajicdusko Accelerating the tuckman stages is critical for high performance Extending periods of time together preferably face to face is essential to work through differences and align on what’s “right” in the particular context. How do you accelerate?

@ryangreenhall I mention this at least once a week :)

No team is immune from the tuckman model of team development: forming storming norming performing

I'm looking forward to sharing my experiences of hiring and building high performing teams as a fractional/interim leader at 3pm Today (London time) Still time to sign up! eventbrite.co.uk/e/fcc-session-… Thanks to @bcrecworks for organising and being our host and facilitator

@tastapod Great build. I love the “what do you wish to learn?” framing. Putting that one in the back pocket 🙂🙏

Strategy means many things to many people. When someone asks for an engineering strategy don’t be afraid to ask “what do you wish to see?” Your strategy could be amazing but will likely miss the mark if the recipient was expecting something else.

@prla 100% Techniques to attract can also be great techniques to retain. Always be retaining.

@ryangreenhall Also a Happy Monday to all the EMs who think holistically about hiring AND retention as one. 🙂

Monolith “good/bad” Microservices “bad/good” Unhelpful categorisations. Both have pros/cons. What’s going to work in your context (and over what time horizon?) Our industry loves extremes and the pendulum continues to swing.