Managing Up

Nick, Travis, and Brandon talk about their successes and failures working alongside product teams. They discuss what keeps engineering teams from feeling empowered and how to avoid becoming an "onshore offshore" team. They talk about how to achieve collaborative, healthy tension between product, marketing, and design, and how this work is at the heart of good engineering management. Show notes: Lara Hogan's venn diagrams https://twitter.com/lara_hogan/status/966837809603600386?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE27GQKB3p0 https://larahogan.me/blog/team-leader-venn-diagram/ What would you say it is ya do here? https://jonathancshan.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/what-would-you-say-you-do-here.jpg Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384067-if-you-want-to-build-a-ship-don-t-drum-up