Managing the Chaos - Effective Engineering Leadership for High Growth Startups
9.1
(17 ratings)
4 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Confidently lead engineering teams that ship and scale using techniques and lessons acquired through real-world experience.
Hosted by
Juan Pablo Buriticá and James Turnbull
Senior Engineering Leaders at Venmo, Microsoft, Stripe & Splice
Course overview
Build and manage effective teams that thrive, even in unstructured environments
Engineering Management can feel like a trap, but hey, someone's gotta do it! A move into Engineering Management can feel like a promotion, but it's a whole new job. Rather than learning that new role on your own, let us share what we've learned from our experience.
Get a headstart or strengthen your existing skillset with frameworks, templates, and real-world, proven strategies that we have refined through scaling multiple Engineering teams.
This course shares the most important lessons learned in 15+ years of leading engineering teams in early-stage and high-growth startup companies.
* Shipping working software confidently and with increasing velocity
* Setting and communicating strategy
* Managing remote and outsourced teams
* Growing your team
* Goal setting
* Tracking and reporting progress through metrics and KPIs
* Partnering with Product and Design
* Keeping your team healthy.
We've written the course we wished we had when we started in Engineering Management.
Who is this course for
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Engineering managers with a few years of experience eager to excel in fast-paced early-stage and high-growth startup environments.
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Experienced leaders seeking to sharpen their skills and adapt to the unique challenges of early-stage and high-growth startup companies.
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Early-stage and startup founders and CTOs looking to accelerate the pace of their teams' software development and delivery.
What you’ll get out of this course
Examples to guide and think about your role as an Engineering Manager
Get clarity on what you need to do as an Engineering Manager in early-stage and high-growth startup companies, so you can take the lead, guide your team, and help your company succeed.
Beyond the basics knowledge on how to ship and support impactful software in a chaotic environment
Discover how to manage multiple tasks, stay focused, and deliver high-quality software in a startup environment where everything moves quickly.
Understanding what metrics are important
Hone your skills in establishing and interpreting meaningful metrics that drive your team's growth and make a measurable impact.
Ready-to-go templates to define fundamentals for your team, such as goals, charter, structure, capacity, etc.
Establish clear goals, define your team's roles and responsibilities, and build a team culture that encourages productivity, collaboration, and innovation.
Strategies to approach your technical influence and responsibilities as a leader.
Unnderstand your role as a leader and how you can use your technical skills to guide your team, optimize processes, and encourage technical excellence.
Communication techniques that will help you minimize dysfunction
Create the communication skills to overcome conflicts, align priorities, and ensure everyone cooperates smoothly.
Frameworks to keep your team healthy
Find out how to create a positive team culture that encourages personal growth, technical excellence, and long-term success, so your team can stay healthy and engaged.
Our hard-earned lessons
Learn from our mistakes before you make the same mistakes yourself.
Managing the Chaos - Effective Engineering Leadership for High Growth Startups
9.1
(17 ratings)
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Meet your instructors
Juan Pablo Buriticá
Executive Product & Engineering Leader
Juan Pablo Buriticá is a seasoned engineering leader with a focus on distributed engineering teams, fast-paced growth, and innovation. With experience at top companies like Stripe and Splice. He also led and scaled engineering teams at Ritchie Bros, Ride, Onswipe, and Panelfly.
He is the author of The Holloway Guide to Remote Work, a comprehensive resource for navigating the world of remote work, and leads the organization of conferences like JSConf Colombia.
James Turnbull
VP of Product and Engineering, Smartrr
James Turnbull is VP of Product and Engineering at Smartrr. Before Smartrr, he worked at Microsoft, was founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and in leadership roles at Glitch, Docker, Timber, and Puppet. He chaired the O'Reilly Velocity conference series, is a startup advisor and investor, and has written eleven technical books.
Join an upcoming cohort
Managing the Chaos - Effective Engineering Leadership for High Growth Startups
Cohort 3
$1,250 USD
Dates
Oct 26—29, 2023
Payment Deadline
Oct 26, 2023
Course syllabus
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Building and Leading Teams in a Chaotic Environment
- Understanding Your Role
- Establishing Team Fundamentals: Charter, Vision, Goals, and Objectives
- Measuring what matters
- Developing Ways of Working and Team Agreements
- Fostering Collaboration,
- Communication and Trust Within Your Team
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Shipping Products While Juggling Flaming Chainsaws
- You only had ONE job!
- Delivering without dogma
- Mastering Priorities, Backlogs, and Balancing Types of Work
- Turning goals into plans
- Budgeting
- Vendor Management
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Bonus: Q&A with Juan & James
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Unleashing the "Engineering" in Engineering Management
- Setting Technical Principles to guide decisions
- Crafting and refining coding practices and guidelines
- Scaling software without over-engineering
- Technical Decision Making
- Traps for young players, don’t rewrite it in [new language]
- Shipping with confidence at an accelerating pace
- DORA / SPACE and other metrics
- Observability & operational Excellence
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Communication: Your Secret Weapon Against Dysfunction
- Effective channels and tools
- Managing up and sideways
- Productive team meetings
- Communicating with different stakeholders
- Priorities and expectations
- Navigating conflict and difficult conversations
- Keeping status and alignment in check
- Talking about technical debt
- How to escalate
- Gracefully handling incidents
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Bonus: Fireside Chat with Guest Industry Leader
You'll get to spend an hour with some of our industry's most established engineering leaders, learning from their personal experiences and giving you perspective on your individual challenges.
Course schedule
3 Day Intensive
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
1 PM - 4:30 pm EDT
We designed the course for busy leaders.
Pre-work
~ 3 hours
Getting started projects ground all students on foundational concepts so we can go deep during the live sessions.
Post-course work
Optional
You can choose to complete post-course projects for personalized feedback highly relevant to your current role.
Learning is better with cohorts
Go beyond the basics
One-on-ones are important, but there is so much more to leading engineering teams.
We will show you the way.
We're living our content
We're neither coaches nor consultants.
In fact, both of us recently left established companies to join early-stage startups and the tools you'll get are the ones we're using today.
Don't go it alone
Leadership is less lonely with a supportive community of peers.
The cohort community will have your back.
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Join an upcoming cohort
Managing the Chaos - Effective Engineering Leadership for High Growth Startups
Cohort 3
$1,250 USD
Dates
Oct 26—29, 2023
Payment Deadline
Oct 26, 2023