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How Engineering Management is like Jenna Zeigen - @ zeigenvector - October 20, 2016 - BrooklynJS Hello front row. Allow me to introduce you to some virtual cats! Im an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean Mr. Meowgi Princess Jenna Zeigen @


  1. How Engineering Management is like Jenna Zeigen - @ zeigenvector - October 20, 2016 - BrooklynJS Hello front row. Allow me to introduce you to some virtual cats!

  2. I’m an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean Mr. Meowgi

  3. Princess

  4. Jenna Zeigen @ zeigenvector

  5. You can attract and entertain top and rare cats with shiny toys Katmandu

  6. But you can only keep the cats around if you keep them nourished. Saint Purrtrick

  7. You decide what toys to put out when. Billy the Kitten

  8. Different cats have different strengths and weaknesses and personalities Joe DiMeowgio

  9. A metric for success is the visible output of the team Pickles

  10. The cats generally give back proportionally to what you invest in them Xerxes IX

  11. But sometimes there’s a Tubbs... Tubbs

  12. But here’s the twist... Spots

  13. The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys... Spooky

  14. The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys... Bob the Cat

  15. The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys... Lady Meow-Meow

  16. The engineering manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys... Sassy Fran

  17. The engineering (me) manager is also cat, she just likes playing with different toys... Pepper

  18. She talks to other cats to learn all the stuff about her fellow cats. Gabriel

  19. She helps the cats become better at things they want to be better at Fred

  20. Sounds like Pokemon! Peaches

  21. Team work is the work. http : //cdn0.dailydot.com/originals/neko.jpg Mack

  22. The engineering manager protects her cat team Willie

  23. Misty

  24. Resources - www.elidedbranches.com/2015/10/notes-on-startup-engineering- management.html - larahogan.me/blog/manager-levels/ - www.oreilly.com/ideas/ask-the-cto-protecting-my-team-in-times-of-stress - larahogan.me/blog/first-one-on-one-questions/ - codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/ Ganache

  25. jenna.is/managing-virtual-cats Jeeves and Sapphire

  26. Thanks! Jenna Zeigen - @ zeigenvector

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