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…

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