The Retrospective

著者: Jeremy Brown & Péter Szász
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  • The Retrospective: A Podcast for Engineering Leaders

    If you want to learn more about leading engineering teams, this podcast can help you improve your skills and grow in your role.

    We are Péter Szász and Jeremy Brown, experienced technology leaders and your hosts.

    We created this podcast to help people who manage tech teams or want to learn how to do so.

    We cover principles and concepts, provide how-to guides and tools to help you meet common challenges, share stories from our experiences, and offer advice on how to be effective leaders in the tech world.

    Each 20-30-minute episode discusses one topic.

    We aim to cover all areas related to engineering leadership:

    • How to grow your career and become an engineering manager
    • Starting to manage a new team and helping new people join your team
    • Delivering results that align with the business goals
    • Working well with other teams in the company
    • Enabling team and individual success
    • Building and maintaining a strong organizational culture
    • Hiring practices and growing your team
    • Managing managers and scaling leadership
    • Team topologies and organizational structure

    The podcast is helpful for:

    • Engineering managers and those who want to become engineering managers.
    • Those on the technical leadership track and who want to grow their leadership skills.
    • Senior managers who want to improve themselves and the managers they coach.
    Jeremy Brown & Péter Szász
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The Retrospective: A Podcast for Engineering Leaders

If you want to learn more about leading engineering teams, this podcast can help you improve your skills and grow in your role.

We are Péter Szász and Jeremy Brown, experienced technology leaders and your hosts.

We created this podcast to help people who manage tech teams or want to learn how to do so.

We cover principles and concepts, provide how-to guides and tools to help you meet common challenges, share stories from our experiences, and offer advice on how to be effective leaders in the tech world.

Each 20-30-minute episode discusses one topic.

We aim to cover all areas related to engineering leadership:

  • How to grow your career and become an engineering manager
  • Starting to manage a new team and helping new people join your team
  • Delivering results that align with the business goals
  • Working well with other teams in the company
  • Enabling team and individual success
  • Building and maintaining a strong organizational culture
  • Hiring practices and growing your team
  • Managing managers and scaling leadership
  • Team topologies and organizational structure

The podcast is helpful for:

  • Engineering managers and those who want to become engineering managers.
  • Those on the technical leadership track and who want to grow their leadership skills.
  • Senior managers who want to improve themselves and the managers they coach.
Jeremy Brown & Péter Szász
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  • S2: E03 - Engineering Manager Gets a New Team
    2024/10/29

    In this episode of the ‘Retrospective’ podcast, Jeremy and Peter explore crucial strategies for engineering managers transitioning to new teams. Emphasizing the importance of early trust-building, quick wins, and effective communication, they reference ‘The First 90 Days’ by Michael D. Watkins. They discuss understanding team dynamics, emotional intelligence, and the role of the previous manager in easing transitions. Key topics include assessing team strengths, managing technical debt, aligning with business goals, and fostering a safe-to-fail culture. The episode concludes with practical advice for new managers navigating stakeholder relationships and ensuring team member growth.

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    37 分
  • S2: E02 - Recognising and Tackling Quiet Quitting
    2024/10/14

    In this episode of The Retrospective, Peter and Jeremy discuss ‘quiet quitting’ in the workplace, a situation in which employees lose motivation and only do the minimum required.

    They discuss how to spot the signs and the reasons behind them, such as changes in company culture or personal struggles.

    The conversation also covers how managers can help motivate their team and maintain a positive environment, using strategies like giving feedback and recognising good work.

    They also mention the challenges of dealing with quiet quitting, especially when working remotely, and share tips on effectively supporting your team.

    00:00 Introduction

    00:25 Quiet Quitting

    03:07 Situations that can trigger quiet quitting

    05:55 It’s not always the company!

    06:18 What Motivates People?

    07:11 How circumstances can trigger quiet quitting

    08:09 Recognising the signs in a remote and in office team members

    09:08 Cultural differences

    11:44 The consequences of quiet quitting

    15:41 How to handle quiet quitting as a manager

    20:19 Don’t forget to focus on the whole team

    21:11 What are the levers managers have?

    25:35 Don’t get sucked in!

    27:22 Remove blockers

    28:03 Provide Clarity

    28:29 One to ones are critical

    28:54 Praise and encourage

    30:12 Get in touch if you are struggling

    30:32 You can’t save everyone!

    30:57 Summary

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    33 分
  • S2 E01 - A New Format
    2024/10/07

    Join Peter and Jeremy as they kickoff the first episode of Season 2, reflecting on their learnings from Season 1 and outlining exciting changes and plans for the new season.

    They discuss their experiences with podcasting, the challenges of editing, and the valuable feedback they received.

    This episode covers their motivation to provide focused, impactful content for early-stage engineering managers and leaders, and introduces format changes like shorter, more focused episodes, audio-only format, and potential guest interviews around relevant topics.

    00:00 Intros

    00:29 Reflections on Season One

    01:23 What We Learnt and the Feedback We Got

    03:57 Plans for Season Two - focusing on Engineering Managers

    04:38 Format Changes - 20 - 30 mins, Audio Only

    05:50 One Episode Per Topic

    07:13 Interviews and Special Episodes

    08:31 Wrapping Up

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    9 分

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