Articles on Workshops

Why It’s Important to Raise the Bar for Engineering Leadership

Last week, I co-led back-to-back workshops on engineering leadership. The first was with my good friend and product manager Diana Berlin for the engineering managers at Quip. The other was with another good friend and engineering-manager-turned-coach Jean Hsu for engineering leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area – people who ranged from senior individual contributors to tech leads to managers to VPs. Both workshops focused on the powerful conversations that... (more)

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“A comprehensive tour of our industry's collective wisdom written with clarity.”

— Jack Heart, Engineering Manager at Asana

“Edmond managed to distill his decade of engineering experience into crystal-clear best practices.”

— Daniel Peng, Senior Staff Engineer at Google

“I wish I had this manual to give my engineers when I was a VP of Engineering at Twitter. This summarizes and presents everything I used to tell my team.”

— Raffi Krikorian, Engineering Director at Uber

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