The role of being technical in technical leadership
How can you be an effective noncoding technical leader? Camille Fournier explores solutions to this ongoing issue.
Camille Fournier
Camille Fournier is the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma. She was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway. Camille is an Apache ZooKeeper committer and PMC member and a Dropwizard framework PMC member.
Radar
Ask the CTO: Measuring team performance
Measurement needs to be focused on the right goals for right now.
Content
Hallmarks of a good technical leader
Five Questions for Camille Fournier about the challenges engineers face when transitioning to managers, and how to foster great technical leadership.
Ask the CTO: Defeat micromanagement by trusting more and controlling less
Let the systems and your team do the work.
Ask the CTO: Completing projects is difficult with a changing business roadmap
Anticipate change, but keep an eye on technical debt.
Ask the CTO: A peer manager is trying to take my engineers
Build up your “first team” relationships to avoid conflict.
Ask the CTO: Balancing development desire with product goals
We can’t build systems in a vacuum--architecture is a multi-year vision requiring an iterative delivery.
Ask the CTO: Protecting my team in times of stress
Think of yourself not as a shield, but as a selectively passive membrane.
Ask the CTO: How do I hire managers?
What to look for and how to approach hiring new managers for teams.
Ask the CTO: Achieving friction-free status updates
How do I figure out what’s happening in a project without tapping engineers on the shoulder to ask?
Ask the CTO: New manager has a fear of losing a technical edge
Navigating the leadership transition from hands-on to hands-off.