https://www.howarddierking.com/tags/management/ Recent content in management on howarddierking.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2022/10/12/management-and-org-size/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2022/10/12/management-and-org-size/ I recently interviewed with a company who was looking for a senior engineering leader, and the conversation took a surprising turn related to management and organization size, so I want to take a few minutes with you good folks and comment on the following question: Is organization size a useful measure in predicting whether a new or potential manager will be successful? The Context First, here’s the context behind this post. https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/12/19/the-win-win-of-mock-interviewing/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/12/19/the-win-win-of-mock-interviewing/ Some of you may know that I’m passionate about helping people from non-traditional computer science background enter our industry and have done quite a bit of work over the last few years towards that end through partnerships with immersive code schools like General Assembly and Code Fellows. In fact, at this point, nearly one third of my organization has come from one of those programs. There are some inherent scale limits to hiring graduates of these programs however. https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/09/07/on-change-and-career/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/09/07/on-change-and-career/ I originally wrote this as talking points for a conversation I had with my team and wasn’t planning on sharing it more broadly. However, as I’ve been watching this crazy industry of ours over the last several months, I think that these thoughts apply to many more people than just those on my team and I hope that at least one other person finds them useful. So first, a bit of context… https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/02/05/technology-divergence-and-conway-s-law/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2017/02/05/technology-divergence-and-conway-s-law/ In 2015-2016, there was a fair amount of discussion in the industry about the rise of polyglot development. The idea was simple enough: rather than standardizing on a set of programming languages and tools, development organizations would choose the right tool for the right job. Successful developer in this brave new world needed then to learn a host of new tools, from languages and frameworks like NodeJS, Golang, Elixir, and Rust to infrastructure automation tools like Docker, Mesos, Terraform and beyond. https://www.howarddierking.com/2016/11/29/reading-list-business-and-management/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2016/11/29/reading-list-business-and-management/ I was asked by a colleague recently to share my backlog of business and management related books, so I wanted to share them with you as well. Some of them, I’ve read. Many are in my queue but still a ways out due to all the tech books and journals that I’m also trying to get through. Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal Kellogg on Marketing, Alice Tybout and Bobby Calder Disrupted, Dan Lyons Creativity, Inc. https://www.howarddierking.com/2015/10/08/growing-pains/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2015/10/08/growing-pains/ If there’s one thing that I want for the 10 of you that read this blog (hi dad!), it’s that you know that I want to be as transparent as humanly possible with you - about both the successes and failures. I started with Concur as a development manager about a year ago and was promoted to director a few months ago. This is post is an update of what’s gone well, what hasn’t gone as well, and some areas where I’m not really sure whether what I’m observing is good or bad. https://www.howarddierking.com/2015/05/18/9-months-in-reflections-on-teams-and-agile/ Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.howarddierking.com/2015/05/18/9-months-in-reflections-on-teams-and-agile/ I’ve been a dev manager now for about 9 months and I have to say that I’m really enjoying this role. It’s not a job without frustrations, and I haven’t escaped the all of the frustrations that I had as a PM - particularly that of trying to balance writing code with “other duties as assigned.” However, when it’s all summed, I think that I’m a much better fit for operating on the engineering side of the house than I am at the business side.