Ask an Engineering Manager

Elmar Schraml

Real answers to questions about work and life in software development. Are you just starting your first software development job? Or working towards that next step in your career? Just wondering if software engineering is for you, and how to get into the industry? Or managing developers, and wondering how? Send in your question to askanengineeringmanager@gmail.com, and we will tell you what we wish we had known in your place.

  1. 2022/02/05

    Typical Mistakes of new engineering managers

    What possible mistakes should I be aware of as a new engineering manager? Typical mistakes that almost every new engineering manager makes, why they are bad, and how to avoid them.

  2. 2022/01/23

    016: Unconventional ways to kickstart a career in tech (Interview with William A. Adams)

    How can people without a traditional tech background get access to jobs in technology? As a manager, what can I do to find that kind of talent, and provide on-ramps to a career in tech? What roadblocks are there typically, and how to solve them? For this episode, rather than just me talking, I interviewed an expert in this field: William A. Adams, an engineering manager and advisor to the CTO at Microsoft, with a long history of succesful initiatives to increase diversity in tech hiring.  Find more info at aka.ms/leap and william-a-adams.com

  3. 2021/11/21

    Holiday Special: Christmas gifts for nerds, Christmas gifts by nerds

    Holiday gifts from nerds - how you can give the gift of technology to make your loved ones' lifes better. Some services or products mentioned: Online backup: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html Photo backup: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.clouddrive.photos PC Remote control: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/products/teamviewer/ my favorite ebook reader: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KTZ8249 iOS podcast app: https://overcast.fm/ Android podcast app (also cross-platform): https://www.pocketcasts.com/ Holiday gifts for nerds - what you can give the nerd in your life that they would not think of themselves Retro gaming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_Classic_Edition https://genesismini.sega.com/ https://gpd.hk/gpdxdplus Coffee table books: iconic: a photographic tribute to apple https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/098858171X/ super nes or mega drive pixel book https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/the-snes-pixel-book Atlas obscura https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-Obscura-Explorers-Worlds-Wonders/dp/1523506482 the geek atlas https://www.amazon.de/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

    Holiday Special: Christmas gifts for nerds, Christmas gifts by nerds

  4. 2021/10/31

    Books: What are the best books about software engineering?

    This time the title says it all: The best books about software engineers, and for software engineers, from timeless classics to books that everybody knows and nobdy reads, to books that are not about software development at all but still highly recommended for programmers.   The giant list of links to all the recommended software engineering books mentioned: https://bignerdranch.com/books/ios-programming-the-big-nerd-ranch-guide-7th-edition/ https://www.newline.co/ng-book/2/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-java/9780134686097/ http://therubyway.io/ https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 https://pragprog.com/titles/utj2/pragmatic-unit-testing-in-java-8-with-junit/ https://www.postgresql.org/docs/ https://pragprog.com/titles/pwrdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks-second-edition/ https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks3 http://regex.info/book.html https://www.algorist.com/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-second/0735619670/ https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85009.Design_Patterns https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-design/9781492077992/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-object-oriented/0596008678/ https://www.dddcommunity.org/book/evans_2003/ https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/domain-driven-design-distilled/9780134434964/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://martinfowler.com/architecture/ https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/ https://dataintensive.net/ https://hpbn.co/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/uibook/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41790.User_Interface_Design_for_Programmers https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-non-designers-design/9780133966350/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/product/Pindyck-Microeconomics-9th-Edition/9780134184241.html https://freakonomics.com/books/ https://timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ https://twitter.com/patio11 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 https://stripe.com/en-de/guides https://press.stripe.com/

    Books: What are the best books about software engineering?

  5. 2021/10/03

    What should I wear to a job interview?

    One of the most frequent topics when giving advice to new graduates about an upcoming job interview is: "What is a suitable outfit for a job interview?". The most important answer here is: Do not worry too much about it, what you are wearing is much less important than you think. For more details, listen to the episode. Want to have your questions answered? Send them to askanengineeringmanager@gmail.com Already listening? Please take 2 minutes to let us know what you think: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/28SSB95

    What should I wear to a job interview?

  6. 2021/09/20

    Skills: How important are foreign languages?

    How important are foreign languages for a career in software development? There are really two kinds of foreign languages: English - and everything else. We talk about why that is, what matters about being able communicate in a foreign languages, and some good ways to learn.   Want to have your questions answered? Send them to askanengineeringmanager@gmail.com Already listening? Please take 5 minutes to let us know what you think: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/28SSB95

    Skills: How important are foreign languages?

  7. 2021/09/05

    Management: What does an Engineering Manager actually do? A.k.a. What did you do at work this week?

    I assume the questions is supposed to mean "What does an engineering manager actually do?" But to start with, lets answer the question literally: If you've wanted to know what an example of a work week looks like for me, here's your chance to find out.  Then we go deeper into what determines the parts of the job of an engineering manager, and what the most important part of the job is.   Want to have your questions answered? Send them to askanengineeringmanager@gmail.com Already listening? Please take 5 minutes to let us know what you think: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/28SSB95

    Management: What does an Engineering Manager actually do? A.k.a. What did you do at work this week?

  8. 2021/08/22

    Engineering: Do you think unit tests are important?

    The short answer here is of course "yes". The episode elaborates why, when, and for who unit tests have the greatest value, how to overcome reasons not to write tests, and lists arguments for why unit tests are important.    Note: I mis-spoke in the episode - the full term for TDD is, of course, correctly "Test-driven development", not "test-driven design" - although, since one of the main benefits of TDD is its influence on the technical design, that would work, too.   Want to have your questions answered? Send them to askanengineeringmanager@gmail.com Already listening? Please take 5 minutes to let us know what you think: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/28SSB95

    Engineering: Do you think unit tests are important?
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番組について

Real answers to questions about work and life in software development. Are you just starting your first software development job? Or working towards that next step in your career? Just wondering if software engineering is for you, and how to get into the industry? Or managing developers, and wondering how? Send in your question to askanengineeringmanager@gmail.com, and we will tell you what we wish we had known in your place.

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    Elmar Schraml
  • 配信期間
    21年 - 22年
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    17
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