Building Good Engineering Culture That Honestly Applies to Everyone - Issue #40

Hey friend! Hope you are having a great week and enjoyed your Halloween! My daughter dressed as the Queen of England since we have a corgi so that was fun! I am heading off to my last conference of the year next Monday in ATL at Connect Tech. If you are going to be there let me know! Would love to meetup! In this newsletter I summarize a fantastic podcast episode I had a while back with CTO/Co Founder. He brings up some really good points that applies to not just the tech industry! 

If you want to check out the entire podcast link…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mpwaJI3tTZET6ohsGkNZi?si=269e1e9a0a0f4971 

Building Good Engineering Culture 

Starts with Company Values

• Teams first approach

• People want to grow so provide that opportunity 

• Compassionate candor is vital 

• Be honest with your employees

• Diversity is more than a word

• Have fun is not emphasized enough 

• Little things matter, especially leading remotely

Define Success, what does it look like

• Team engagement

• Participation in discussions

• Planning and estimation

• Be Intentional

• Document

• Time management

• Create process

• Progress tracking

• Issue management

• Personal growth

Reviews are a MUST

• Reviews need to be scheduled regularly, like weekly

• Align to values

• Do you understand your responsibilities

• Are you still fulfilled in your role

• Is this a job that you can succeed at

• Where do you want to go in your career

• How do we get you there

Content Creation is needed

• Company leaders should be pushing out content

• You’ve done your job/career for a LONG time…..share your knowledge

• People that are aligned with your values will align with your content

• It will assist in building out your team

Thanks again for skimming through this! If you haven’t followed me yet on other social media platforms I am tdesseyn on all of them! As always, if you have friends that are looking for a job you can ABSOLUTELY share my contact info with them!

Talk next week!

-T