Human… We are humans not resources 2 Nov 20216 Nov 2021 I strive to never refer to another Human as a resource. I see this as diminishing another human. It encourages the use of humans as cogs in a factory, or…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 5 – COVID-19 27 May 202027 May 2020 Now Covid-19 -> Not Scaling March 2020 -> Throughout the whole US Parking sector, revenue dropped by 90% due to COVID-19 (Stay at Home Orders/WFH). As an Executive, we wrote…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 4 – product 27 May 202027 May 2020 Product May 2019 We are a two sided marketplace - Consumers on one side (Parkers) and Operators (Owners/management of Parking facilities) on the otherWe were not Product led as a…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 3 – Technology 27 May 202027 May 2020 Technology May 2019 The SpotHero monolith is Python/DjangoThe Parking Panda monolith is c#/.net (SpotHero acquired Parking Panda in Spring 2017)We were extracting core functionality from our monolith to build out…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering PT 2 – People 27 May 202027 May 2020 People- May 2019 The Product and Engineering was about 50 peopleOffices in Chicago HQ, Baltimore and a couple remote WFHMost Engineering Managers had over 10-14 engineers to serveOur focus and…
Leadership… A year at SpotHero leading Engineering 27 May 202027 May 2020 I will talk about the year in five parts/posts: Scaling -> Governance, People, Technology ProductNot Scaling -> COVID 19 May 2019 - The company had been without a VP of…
Leadership… Software Engineering Leadership 16 Sep 201824 Mar 2021 Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could be Engineering lead, Software Engineer manager, R&D Manager, Director of…
Leadership… That you build Trust/psychological safety – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 201828 Feb 2019 Avoid surprises, build creditability, build reliability, show authenticity and share credit “When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.”—…
Leadership That you are Coachable – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Good at listening, open to change, able to change, able to let go and good at reflection My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and…
Change Management… That you make decisions – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 “Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created.” — Albert Einstein Let facts drive your decision making, not opinions. As humans we have an…
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