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Engineering Managers Engineering Leaders Team Leads Tech Leads
Tribe/Chapter Leaders Engineering Directors
CTO, CPO, CxO, VP Engineering Founder Owner
OUR MISSION
We are multiplying engineering productivity by elevating their Engineering Leadership talent pool in Central Europe, enabling us to scale and compete with leading software hubs in Berlin, Amsterdam, and London.
Principle
We share high-quality contentβour real-life experience to turn managers into Leaders Worth Following.π
MOTIVATION
- Are you managing a development team that's expanding from 2 to 6 people?
- Are you struggling to balance technical responsibilities (like coding, architecture, and reviews) with interpersonal tasks (such as one-on-ones, setting priorities, strategizing, and managing the development lifecycle)?
- Is your manager asking you to focus on hiring new people, onboarding, agility, and team education while having tight delivery deadlines?
- Do you want to become strong enough to continuously deliver on your goals and roadmap?
- Do you want to become a trusted person for your manager, your peers, and your teammates?
- Do you aspire to gain more inspiration around leading your team in specific situations?
Elevate yourself and become a leader worth following.
OUR MEMBERS
Whom we happily welcome in our community?
Primarily, the group is designed for all levels in the Engineering Leadership track.
Engineering Leaders/Managers
Any supporting product/tech roles
Aspiring people and partners
MEMBERSHIP REQUEST
People in relevant roles highlighted above will get invite approval.
ποΈΒ NEXT MEETUP: #14: Learn to Sell Your Technical Ideas to Match Product Impact
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OUR TEAM
Founder of Engineering Leaders Community
EL Mentor, Series A-D Fractional Advisor, Moderator and Speaker, Former VP Engineering
βοΈΒ marian@engineeringleaders.cz
Our Community Manager magician
Building Communities | ex-YC startups | EB & Tech Community Manager @Make
βοΈΒ any@engineeringleaders.cz
Our Ambassador, continuous supporter, and proactive member of the community.
Engineering Manager @kosik.cz
βοΈΒ xruzax@gmail.com
Our meetups are high-quality and free to all.
Our strategy is not to hide a significant portion of the most vital insights behind a paywall or to start charging for entry tickets. We believe that high-quality content should be free.
π°Β Organizing each meetup costs roughly EUR 2000 (preparation, venue, catering, people time, slides, community management, photos, post-production).
Therefore, I, Marian, the founder of this community, am kindly asking you to spread the word about our content and consider benefiting from:
- Company-supported Leadership Academy workshops for you, your Team leads, Engineering Managers, and Tribe leads.
- Company-supported individual mentoring sessions for Engineering Managers, Team Leads, Tribe Leads, Directors and CTOs.
- Encouraging your company to become our official sponsor with proactive leadership care.
- Your company will benefit from on-site fractional advisory, helping you to execute the desired topics.
- Lastly, feel free to invite me as a speaker to your internal conference, town hall, or any other event you prefer.
This is the true help Iβll be grateful for. In return, Iβll not disappoint you in the mission you ask me to accomplish in your beloved company.
Thank you.
π‘Propose a new topic for our meetups
If you have a topic that aligns with our mission and you feel strongly talking about it, feel free to submit it in the Proposed Topics list. Ensure the topic is highly practical.
MEETUP CONTENT AND SPEAKER RULES
Principes
- Mission: The talk is aligned with our scope and mission.
- Proficiency: Speakers are well-prepared, including the slides and dry-run, ensuring we fit into the time. Iβll gladly help with the details and check the agenda.
Guide
- We expose the motivation: Why + What the listener will gain from attending a meetup.
- We guide the audience through the main exciting story, containing small sub-stories.
- We end the story by highlighting one or two main thoughts, albeit controversial π. Keep the focus on Lessons Learned.
OUR MAIN MEETUP THEMES
YOU ARE:
CTO/VP
- How do I define and measure success? Mission, product KPIs, quality, and success metrics.
- How do we think about structuring teams as we continue to scale? Think verticals, Conway's law.
- How to set up, execute, and evaluate the product/technical strategy? Aim to deliverΒ 80+% of the roadmap all the time.
- How do I make OKRs work in the company? Connect objectives to tasks.
- Help me create a solid hiring pipeline, including brand and community.
- Moving away from a firefighting situation to a predictable environment.
- How to set up an agility mindset, succeed in hiring agile coaches, and establish your agile community.
- Help me to land the right career framework for my mission, company, structure, and culture. Make people learn and grow.
- How to execute performance reviews and calibrations?
- How to allocate the budget? Predictable payroll/non-payroll costs.
Directors/Tribe Leads
- Help me to plan roadmap initiatives for a successful 80%+ roadmap delivery.
- What are the right quality and success metrics? What's the best way to visualize and communicate them?
- How to move my tribe from an outputs to an outcomes mindset?
- How to resolve dependencies across multiple teams.
- How to lead high-potential talents?
- How to apply change management in our environment?
- I communicate with my manager and the peers like a charm.
- Help me set up the delivery process end to end, including continuous discovery, delivery, and adoption.
- How to set up and evaluate performance goals so that people actually π the reviews?
Engineering Managers, Team/Tech Leads
- Set me up for a new manager role! Raise my potential. Our company grows faster than myself.
- How do I educate myself and outrun others? What engineering leadership sources/blog posts/podcasts are worth following?
- What to focus on in the first three months in the team leader role? I want to ensure my team succeeds.
- I'm lost in the priorities of my team. It's more of a firefight.
- What is broken in my agility pipeline? Our ceremonies are a mess. We deliver half of the sprints all the time.
- There is no teamwork. Our team is a bunch of individuals.
- I have an under-performer or a silent introvert in my team. What options do I have? How to involve them?
- How to cooperate with your Product manager, Agile coach, and stakeholders.
- How to communicate with your peers and your direct manager.
- Help me identify my sweet spot and land my dream job.
- Do I want to go the manager track or the senior technical track?
- How do I conduct better 1:1's?