> [!thought] > (2025) - Engineering Management Philosophy in the age of GenAI. - **Keep your calendar open** - Be wary of meetings. Clear owners, articulations of the ROI. Especially if the are recurring. - Have agency over ones' time. - **Expectations** - Communicate the expectations both verbally and written form. - No Recurring 1:1s with your reports. - Schedule as needed, instead of robotically scheduling them. - You should be able to get the pulse of the team (and its members) outside of resorting to it. - Schedule 1:1s as needed (see "keep your calendar open"). They are almost very little ROI. - Prefer ad-hoc and topic-based 1:1s instead of regular relationship. - Bias towards doing. - Agentic; allow people to thrive in ambiguity - this may mean that the role definition may be ill-defined - `Value > Aptitude > Skill` ([[exa Jeff Wang]]'s take, and `sama`'s take too) # Some Literatures - [No Management Needed](https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed) - has similar structure to what I'm thinking about. - [Good Engineering Management is a Fad](https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/) > [!quote] This was an era where managers were explicitly told to stop writing software as the first step of their transition into management, and it was good advice! Looking back we can argue it was bad guidance by today’s standards, but it aligned the managers with the leadership expectations of the moment.