Managing Managers

• Episode 31: Closing Episode

  The final episode of the podcast (or at least the first season)

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• Episode 30: Measuring productivity with Laura Tacho

  Laura is not only a coach to engineering leaders but also the CTO at DX, a company focused on improving developer productivity. But Laura has been talking about development metrics for a lot longer, and in this episode, we dive deep into the latest research, concrete measures for development teams and their managers, and more! Guest Biography Laura Tacho is CTO at DX, a developer experience company. She’s been building developer tools and working on improving developer productivity for over 10 years, all the way from the heyday of IaaS and PaaS on cloud, through Docker and containers, CI/CD, and now as part of DX. She’s also an executive coach for engineering leaders and an expert in building world-class engineering organisations that consistently deliver outstanding results. Laura has coached CTOs and other engineering leaders from startups to the Fortune 500, and also facilitates a popular course on metrics and engineering team performance. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauratacho/  Twitter: https://x.com/rhein_wein  Website: https://lauratacho.com/ Full transcript and show notes: See https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-030-laura-tacho/

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• Episode 29: What CTOs look for in manager of managers with Meri Williams

  Meri has a tonne of experience managing managers as a serial CTO, and we chat about everything from being a non-executive director, common traps of first-time directors/VPs of Engineering, what they look for when interviewing managers of managers, and so much more. Guest biography: Meri is an experienced CTO and leader of technology organisations, currently leading the technology team at Pleo. They particularly enjoy helping others to level up as technical leaders and managers of organisations, and works as a CTO coach and tech advisor to various companies in this capacity through micro-consultancy ChromeRose.  They have led teams ranging in size from 30 to 300, in a range of organisations from Procter & Gamble, to the Government Digital Service, award-winning online print company MOO, mobile-first challenger bank Monzo and patient-inspired AI-driven rare disease treatment discovery company Healx, amongst others. A published author and international speaker, they are the chair of The Lead Developer conference, and a tech advisor for Kindred Capital. Together with their wife, they run micro-charity One Goes Up to help young women & enby folks pursue STEM education & careers. Transcript and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-029-meri-williams/

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• Episode 28: Leadership skills and energy management with Alice Bartlett

  The Financial Times (FT) uniquely combines individual contributor and management responsibilities in senior engineering roles. In this episode, I talk to Tech Director Alice Bartlett about what that’s like for her, how tech skills (at that level) are not necessarily key skills, and how it’s more important to have strong leadership skills, which includes managing your energy (and your calendar!) Listen to this episode for more insights and to hear Alice’s leadership journey in tech. Guest Biography: Alice is a tech director at the Financial Times. She oversees the team that builds and maintains FT.com and the apps. She has been at the FT for eight years and managing managers for about 5 years. She lives in Brighton with her family. Transcript and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-028-alice-bartlett/

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• Episode 27: The challenges of being a middle manager and more with Lena Reinhard

  I’m so pleased I got to chat with Lena, who happens to also be based in my hometown, Berlin. In this episode, we chat about the challenges of being a middle manager, becoming an accidental leader, what she does when she talks about organisational development, the differences of supporting Directors+ as an external independent person (versus being a manager), the challenges she sees as people transition to managing managers. Listen to this episode to hear these themes and so much more. Guest Biography: Lena Reinhard has dedicated her career to helping technology leaders build successful engineering organisations. Her background includes roles as VP Engineering at CircleCI and Travis CI, along with being a co-founder and CEO of a SaaS startup. She's committed her career to supporting leaders and their teams during times of rapid change and tough market conditions. Lena's supported with a diverse range of companies across the globe, from early-stage startups, scale-ups, to corporations, and NGOs. She now works as a leadership coach, management trainer, and organisational developer, and hosts the podcast “Leadership Confidential” with real talk about leadership beyond the clichés and challenges of leading teams and organisations, and how to deal with them. Episode and show notes: https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-027-lena-reinhard/

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