hats are the new leadership
DESCRIPTION
As an engineering manager, do you ever feel like you're dying a slow death by a thousand cuts? All those little tasks that keep falling in your lap can be overwhelming. At Social Tables, we've started giving every engineer a "Hat" to wear for this very reason.TRANSCRIPT
HATS ARE THE NEW
LEADERSHIP
Ed KimSocial Tables@edwardjkim
First, Some Background...
VP, Engineeri
ng
Lead Enginee
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Engineer (x8)
We Have a Flat Team
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LEAD ENGINEER
ENGINEER ENGINEER ENGINEER ENGINEER ENGINEER ENGINEER
ENGINEER ENGINEER
Shown Another Way...
At 2 hours/wk/eng9 x 2 = 18 hours per week doing manager-related tasks!
It’s All the “Little” Things!
● Assigning the next blog post and proofreading
● Making sure ALL bug reports get addressed FAST
● Picking a leader for our company-wide update
● Publishing content updates to WWW● Organizing code reviews● Scheduling Lunch & Learns● Challenging technical approach and
scope
TIME FOR HATS!
The Bugs Captain Hat
● Assigns first responder in our bugs chat room
● Monitors response quality and provides backup
● Thinks about improving communication between Engineering and Customer Success
The Bugs Captain Hat
The Architect Hat
● “Professional whiteboarder”● Stands in in on technical scoping
meetings● Provides guidance on high-level code &
data architecture
The Marketing Hat
● Handles all content updates to non-application pages (home page, marketing pages, team page)
● Leads custom landing page builds● Tracking pixels & integrations with
marketing automation software (e.g. Pardot)
The Education Hat
Lunching & learning about WebGL and the graphics rendering pipeline. These things don’t organize themselves!
And This Works for Big Things!
● Product Ownership for Main Application● New Employee Onboarding &
Mentoring● API● Dev Ops
And...Technical Leads for New Products!
Get it? Linux joke!
Thanks!
Ed KimSocial Tables@edwardjkim