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Engineering and management cannot both be improved at once, so a new manager has to stop trying to be the senior engineer as well.

Drawn from what Camille Fournier and Charity Majors said

Subjectmanagement
What this subject means

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

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  1. Camille Fournier Engineering leader, formerly CTO of Rent the Runway… New managers, make sure that you aren’t trying to be a senior engineer who has direct reports. How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com · 9 Oct 2021All 6 korrents from this piece
    Their wordsNew managers, make sure that you aren’t trying to be a senior engineer who has direct reports.

    Where this was said

    ↗How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com

    9 Oct 2021

    All 6 korrents from this piecethis one is 6th

  2. Charity Majors Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb You can only really improve at one of these things at a time: engineering or management. The Engineer/Manager Pendulumcharity.wtf · 11 May 2017All 4 korrents from this piece
    Their wordsYou can only really improve at one of these things at a time: engineering or management.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Engineer/Manager Pendulumcharity.wtf

    11 May 2017

    All 4 korrents from this piecethis one is 3rd

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