Management

• Sep 21 2010 - Engineering Management (link) ... Great article(s) on some of the management principles in the engineering group at Facebook from Yishan Wong who was at Facebook through some very interesting growth times. I found reading this to be inspirational so posting for posterity… http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html
• Sep 14 2010 - welcome criticism, be open to review and invest in process ... TLDR: External audit and review is important and can have value not easily measuredBe open to investing in processes even if you think those processes are already optimalWhen someone asks you why you aren’t better at what you do, how do you react? Is your impulse to defend yourself? Do you look for comparables? Do you start to question yourself or your team? Can you begin to break down what exists today and imagine it built up in a new form?
• May 30 2010 - Flying at the right altitude - advice to a slightly younger me ... No posts in five months! Almost exactly the same time I’ve been in a new position at work. Disturbing trends, this completely predates just the last six months…. I’ve moved from being a team lead to being the head of our R&D group. I now have as many teams (7) as I did people to think about, and a whole new world of politics, strategy and planning. With a group of this size HR issues seem to be at least a weekly occurrence and I am now fully and completely on the manager’s schedule.