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I didn’t get asked if I wanted to become a manager. It just happened because my boss moved overseas to head up a new team and I was made team leader amongst my peers. A year later …

We call them “Engineering Notebooks” and after 5 years at a company they tell an interesting story of the projects worked on. I’m often reviewing notes from the past couple of mont…

At my workplace we use lots of different tools and systems. No one has access to everything because of licensing costs. SAP Business One is the main ERP but to have part numbers ad…

My team of hardware and software engineers is relatively new to Git. I’m trying to get them to commit and push small changes daily to a shared personal branch e.g. james-wip instea…

I fell into management because my boss moved overseas to set up a new team and I was asked to ‘supervise’ the team left behind. No pay rise, no title change but extra reporting res…

I enjoy my work and put in extra hours because I want the business to be successful. Sometimes there’s an interesting problem that’s keeping me up at night. Sometimes there’s a dea…

The AU engineers have all the existing product knowledge. The US is hiring for multiple positions to work on new products but US HQ doesn’t want there to be a distinction between t…

Two got spooked and were nervous about their future with only 13 months tenure. The third is a senior dev with more than 10 years who’s disgruntled and convinced he’d only be kept …

Last month our company president in the US announced that the electronics manufacturing department in Australia (former head office) will be made redundant and production is moving…

Software. It’s not Android, just Linux developed with Buildroot. We do have a web interface with a remote control feature that displays the screen and allows us to trigger buttons.…

We have a handheld product (custom hardware) that we struggle to test. Currently it’s all manual testing but lately I’ve been wondering how to increase test coverage and automate i…

Manager Tools have a forum. Not super active but if you’re patient there are some knowledgeable people there that will usually make some good contributions to the discussion. https…

I work for a small electronics design and manufacturing company. All our documents are allocated a number with a prefix for the document type: drawings, assembly procedures, manual…

One of my directs showed me a job advert for a VP of Engineering and asked if my boss had resigned. There is no doubt that the advert is for our company and it’s the first my boss …

I’ve been asked to find an embedded software engineer for a short (4-6 weeks) project. Trying to weigh up getting a contractor through a recruitment agency to work in the office vs…

Results and retention. Focus on those and you’ll be fine. I recommend listening to the Manager-Tools.com podcasts. Apparently imposter syndrome is pretty common for managers, so ju…

HyperCard and Logo on Mac introduced me to computer programming when I was 8 years old.

You can’t be a manager and a team member. To the direct you’ll always be the boss with a big flashing sign on your forehead. Your direct is professional with the team and I presume…

My boss is engineering manager at our company of 60 people (he leads 16 engineers) and still finds time to get down in the weeds solving tech problems in addition to managing us. I…

We have 8 engineers with different skills stretched over 6 projects. It is a nightmare because all projects are top priority and late. We will be moving towards tracking tasks per …

My boss has suggested for me to attend a Doulos Embedded security course[1] but I don’t want to travel. Any suggestions for some online courses (free or paid) I could do? Any exper…

Thanks for your support. My boss has always been happy with my performance as an engineer. He likes people to take ownership of their projects and always thanks me whenever I step …

Originally both the engineering manager and project manager were based in our office. The engineering manager moved to the overseas office a few years ago. This year the project ma…