ManagersVSTechLeadv2.pdf

Engineering Manager / Tech Lead Félix López Luis - @flopezluis

@flopezluis ¿Qué es un manager?

@flopezluis

@flopezluis “No me cuentes problemas”

@flopezluis “No me cuentes problemas” El primer trabajo de un
manager es escuchar

@flopezluis “El ausente”

@flopezluis “El ausente” Un manager debe guiar, liderar.

@flopezluis “Pues es lo que hay”

@flopezluis “A manager’s job involves making it easy for her
employees to get things done by creating fertile environments in which work can happen.” Camille Fournier “Pues es lo que hay”

@flopezluis “Por mis cojones”

@flopezluis Managers are not the deciders “Por mis cojones”

@flopezluis Managers are not the deciders “Por mis cojones” https://www.geoffmazeroff.com/2017/10/23/control-competence-and-clarity/

@flopezluis ¿Cómo hace una manager ese trabajo?

@flopezluis • One-To-One. • Framework de competencias. • Career conversations.
• Performance Review.

@flopezluis

@flopezluis Bueno, esto no era Manager vs tech lead?

@flopezluis —> Amazing Junior Engineer —> Senior Engineer —> Amazing
Senior Engineer —> Tech lead —> Amazing Tech lead —> Engineering manager The typical WRONG path

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@flopezluis Un Tech lead es también un project manager. Sorpresa!

@flopezluis “A tech lead is not a person who can
do the work better than her team; she is a person who can get her team to do the work better than she can”

@flopezluis

@flopezluis La comunicación es una de sus mejores skills

@flopezluis A key skill in a TL is the ability
to measure tradeoffs between costs an benefits. e.g when a shortcut / technical debt is the right decision

@flopezluis • Soft skills • Project manager. • Technical person.
• Keep the dream alive. • Leadership

@flopezluis Leadership

@flopezluis “The special one”

@flopezluis “The special one” Tu equipo es AWESOME

@flopezluis “Pues se tiene que poder”

@flopezluis “Pues se tiene que poder” Managers/TL know how and
when to say no

@flopezluis Cómo vas? Has mirado eso? Sabes que esto es
importante, verdad? Cómo vas? Cómo vas? Has mirado eso? Sabes que esto es importante, verdad? Has mirado eso? Cómo vas? Cómo vas? Sabes que esto es importante, verdad? Cómo vas? Has mirado eso? Sabes que esto es importante, verdad? Cómo vas? Has mirado eso? Has mirado eso? “El rey/reina del micromanagement”

@flopezluis Confianza “El rey/reina del micromanagement”

@flopezluis

@flopezluis Don’t fool yourself

@flopezluis

Félix López Luis, @flopezluis - - -

ManagersVSTechLeadv2.pdf

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