Managing Managers

In this episode I chat to the Director of Engineering at Choco , Gabriel Michels, where he discusses the evolution of the EM role, where to get support as a managing of managers and setting appropriate goals. Guest Biography: Gab has been in the industry since 15 years. He started his adventure at RTL, rode the wave of browser games at Bigpoint and Gamesys, and started and failed a startup. Today...

In this episode, I chat with Anita Singh, who stepped into a managing manager role at the rapidly growing ultrafast grocery delivery company Gorillas and shared her experience of this in a talk at LeadDev Berlin 2022. We talk about the feeling of more responsibility but with less control and how the perspective of the first team changes. Guest biography: Anita is an engineering leader who is passi...

Episode description In this episode, I chat to an engineer director who has done the pendulum swing (from manager to individual contributor to back to being a manager), working in hypergrowth environments and one of the earliest microservices architectures where he first wrong about the Backend For Front-Ends (BFF) pattern and what he's doing now to help engineering managers. Guest Biography P...

Episode description In this episode, I chat to an experienced engineering leader who has worked in a global, remote context managing other managers, has done formal co-active coaching training and discusses its relevance to managing other managers. Guest Biography Cate Huston is an engineering director at DuckDuckGo and an advisor at Glowforge . She previously worked at Automattic where she led th...

Episode description In this episode, I chat to the person who literally wrote a book on Engineering Management, about his journey into managing other managers in a high-growth startup, and the experience of moving to a massive fast-moving company at Shopify. Guest Biography James Stanier is a Director of Engineering at Shopify. He is also the author of  Become an Effective Software Manager  and Ef...

Welcome to the Managing Managers podcast. This short episode is an introduction to your host, Patrick Kua , for the podcast and the intention behind it. Transcript and show notes available here: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-001-welcome/