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Published inSep 2023
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ISBN-139781803235356
Edition1st Edition
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Morgan Evans
Morgan Evans
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Morgan Evans

Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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Scenario 2—You enable a narcissistic engineering culture

An engineering manager takes on the leadership of an engineering team. The team is skilled, effective, and efficient, and the manager is happy to lead such a capable team. The manager gets to work supporting and empowering the team. The engineering team is tight-knit; they enjoy each other’s company and make challenging work fun with comradery and jokes. Sometimes, the manager notices that their team’s jokes are at the expense of other teams within the company—for instance, the design team, the product team, the analytics team, or the business development team. Don’t even get them started on the marketing team. The manager thinks this is harmless—after all, they aren’t hurting anyone or being directly rude—so they ignore it and let the team have their fun. Gradually, the engineering team’s lighthearted jokes evolve into cemented opinions. The design team is annoying...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235356

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Morgan Evans

Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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