TechKeeper’s Guide #69 – How to become a better manager?

"As a manager, the best feeling in the world is watching your direct reports grow. I’ll never forget a junior PM that came to our team with considerable gap in their collaboration skills.

After identifying that development area, working together through the process above, and then revisiting it six months later I was thrilled to see nearly every instance of peer feedback call out that this was no longer an issue — and in fact, this report’s development area had turned into a strength.

All it took was infusing performance reviews with more structure, attention, and intention."

For today's featured article, we chose the text by Lenny Rachitsky, a former product lead at Airbnb. He shares some of his experience that helped him to become a better manager.

Besides that, today I recommend the texts about performance reviews and API testing. 

Enjoy the content and keep on leading! ✊

– Marcin Mazurek, The Software House

⭐️ Our favorite read

Use This System to Become a Better Manager

FIRST ROUND Done well, performance reviews improve performance, align expectations and accelerate your report’s career. Done poorly, they accelerate their departure.

✊ Leadership & Culture

How to give better employee performance reviews? Don’t

KNOW YOUR TEAM Our take on how to give better employee performance reviews – and what to consider instead.

Platform Teams

PRAGMATIC ENGINEER Platform teams are the building blocks that product teams use to ship business-facing functionality. Products are built on top of platforms, which platforms enable product teams to move faster.

Becoming a CTO

KEVIN GOLDSMITH A former co-worker reached out to me recently. They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role.

💡 Technology

Practical Amazon Cognito tutorial

THE SOFTWARE HOUSE How practical is it and how to fully benefit from it? Learn all of that and more from this practical Amazon Cognito tutorial.

Catastrophic capabilities of some commands

GEOFFREY HUNTLEY I learned the catastrophic capabilities of this command the hard way and I'm sure folks my vintage have similar stories as it's essentially a right of passage in the sysadmin world.

API Testing – where to start?

EMNA AYADI API was always a topic that I waned to explore more, I decided to start writing this blog in phases while learning more about it instead of taking some notes elsewhere separately.

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