Plus: Giving tough feedback; Coaching tools; Your team's writing and what it says about the team
Plus: Importance of writing skills; The talent myth; Finding mentorship
Plus: Make boring plans; Starting in management isn't easy; Risk adjusted backlogs
Plus: Your star employee just quit; Saying no to stakeholders
Plus: pros and cons of decentralized teams; engineering management books
Plus: embedding staff question; nudges; product ownership
No triangulated feedback; self-review; tech lead manager roles are a trap; collaboration agreements
Employee review questions
'annual' 'performance' reviews; keeping low priority tasks low priority
Plus: Focus and communications; saying no; grow a boring strategy
Virtual onboarding and offboarding; virtual whiteboards; renegotiating your first vendor contract
Task relevant maturity; we learn better when we choose;
