Patrick Kua

Managing Managers

Business EN ↓ 31 episodes

Stepping up from an IC to managing other ICs is no easy feat. But brace yourself because the real surprise comes when you level up again—to managing managers! Curious to know how top tech leaders made this leap? Join our host, the experienced Pat Kua, as he delves into the strategies and stories of leaders in tech who’ve mastered the art of managing managers. 🎙️💡

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Patrick Kua

Episodes

Episode 6: Evolving the EM role, goal setting and finding support as a manager of managers with Gabriel Michels 14.10.2023 48:01

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...

Episode 5: More responsibility, less control and how the first team changes with Anita Singh 30.09.2023 41:39

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 4: Hypergrowth leadership, the pendulum swing and attention management for managers with Phil Calçado 15.09.2023 50:43

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 3: Global, remote management and the impact of coaching with Cate Huston 13.09.2023 42:21

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 2: From high-growth startup to high-growth Shopify with James Stanier 12.09.2023 51:29

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...

Episode 1: Welcome to the podcast 11.09.2023 1:38

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/