Test & Code

Managing Software Teams - Ryan Cheley

Mar 17, 2022

47:07

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How to Ask a Question

05:52

What Are Some Other Than Cod Reviews?

05:00

How to Ask Questions and How to Answer Questions

03:18

Introduction

3min

Managing Supervisors That Manage People

5min

The Point of the Code Review Isn't About You, the Person Who Wrote the Code

2min

How Long Should a Code Review Be?

2min

Code Review

2min

What Are Some Other Than Cod Reviews?

5min

How to Ask Questions and How to Answer Questions

3min

The Power of Story Telling

2min

I'm a Bad Manager, but I'll Always Remember That.

3min

10.

What's the Human Aspect of a Manager?

2min

11.

How to Ask a Question

6min

12.

Are You in a Conference Room?

5min

13.

Using a Work in Progress

2min

14.

I'm Engineer, but It's Not My Official Title, Not a Steamlead

2min

15.

The Challenges of Managing a Stofford Team

3min

Ryan Cheley joins me today to talk about some challenges of managing software teams, and how to handle them.
We end up talking about a lot of skills that are excellent for software engineers as well as managers.

Some topics discussed:

handling code reviews
asking good questions
being honest about what you can't do with current resources and data
discussing tradeoffs and offering solutions that can be completed faster than the ideal solution
balancing engineering and managing
making sure documentation happens
remote teams
- encouraging collaboration
- encouraging non-work-related conversations
- watching out for overworking