One-on-One Meetings
Explore the importance of weekly one-on-one meetings in engineering management. Understand how to schedule them thoughtfully, respect your team's productivity flow, and engage effectively with your manager to foster communication and team development.
Book a weekly one-on-one meeting
Now that you’ve met everyone, it’s time to start putting meetings on the calendar. Depending on your background before management, you may have avoided meetings like the plague. They were the periods of the day that ruined your flow while you were focusing on solving difficult programming problems. However, you’ll see soon that meetings are how a lot of your work as a manager gets done. If you’re severely allergic to meetings, I hate to say it, but get out now. Just run away. You’re going to spend a lot of time in meetings. However, if you persist, you may learn to tolerate them or even love them. Trust me.
Maker’s schedule, manager’s schedule
Y-Combinator co-founder Paul Graham wrote
outlining the key differences between the daily schedules of makers, like programmers, and managers. an article Paul Graham. Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule. Essays by Paul Graham. 2009, July. Managers ...