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Ahmed Wasfy - Thriving as an Engineering Manager

Aug 8, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Legacy Code in a Project

3min

How to Find the Right Type of People to Be at Amazon

2min

The Metaphor Teching of Debt

3min

The Importance of Having a Clear Boundary

2min

How to Prioritize Backlog Items on Your Team

2min

The Importance of Being a Good Manager

3min

The Cultural Aspect of Being a Manager

6min

The Future of Management

3min

10.

The Problem With Hiring Biases in Our Industry

2min

11.

The Importance of Proving Yourself to Be a Superstar

2min

12.

The Importance of Speaking Up

2min

13.

How to Be a Successful Manager

5min

14.

How to Address the Impact and Concerns of a Layoff in an Office

3min

15.

How to Hedging Your Bets When Hiring and Hiring People

2min

16.

How to Give Recognition to Your Team Members

3min

17.

How to Be a Better Engineer

2min

18.

Ruby on Rails Application Support

2min

19.

How to Modernize a Product Without Complaining

4min

20.

How to Find Business Value and Business Wins

3min

Robby has a chat with Ahmed Wasfy (he/him/his), the Senior Development Manager at Amazon. On the topic of the common characteristics of well maintained software, Ahmed feels that one critical thing is that software should serve a purpose in terms of what values it adds and the trackable business goal it fulfills. He shares some valuable insights about legacy code based on his vast experience and dives into how to approach the management of technical debt so that an engineering team trusts there is a time and place to work on that.

Robby and Ahmed discuss how to strike a good balance between new feature development and incremental improvements, challenges that large organizations face when recruiting a lot of engineers in a short period of time when there are no local domain experts, the Ageism bias in the software engineering industry, Ahmed's coaching work under TheThrivingEM.com, and how to approach your first 90 days in a new role. There is that and so much more software engineering wisdom to gain from this episode, so make sure you tune in.