Shaun Abram
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OSCON Day3 – The Joys of Engineering Leadership
The first talk of Day 3 at OSCON was “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The Joys of Engineering Leadership” by Brian ‘Fitz’ Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, both from Google.
What is an engineering leader?
- Serves the team
- Eliminates roadblocks
- Provides advice, guidance and helps get job done
- Mutual respect/Mutual trust
- Promotes technical and social health
- Leadership is not a waste of time…
- Being a team leader is a way of scaling yourself
The speakers broke their talk on how to be a good leader down in to two sections, which were (in good coding tradition) patterns and anti-patterns…
Tags: google, leadership, oscon