Eng Manager Camp

Build better relationships to deliver better results.
Walk away with useful tactics.
Become a more effective leader.Join us July 27th & 28th, 2024!

What is Eng Manager Camp?

This weekend long workshop is the first in a series of workshops for Engineering Managers and aspiring Engineering Managers to develop their skills and understanding around some of what we think are the hardest parts of engineering leadership.This workshop will focus on people & conversations: how to effectively mange up, manage out, and manage in. With an emphasis on creating psychologically safe environments and performant teams that deliver results.This is not a theory class. We will be sharing real-world tactics, practice the hard conversations together, and walk away with tools and techniques that they can be used immediately on Monday.

Agenda

Saturday, July 27th

Morning
Managing the team
^{- Career & performance guidance}
^{- Making the implicit explicit}
^{- Team goal setting conversations}
Afternoon
Managing performance
^{- Managing low performers}
^{- Hard conversations}
^{- Managing high performers}

Sunday, July 27th

Morning
Managing the Story
^{- Storytelling for managers}
^{- The hero’s journey}
^{- Managing beyond the team}
Leadership
^{- Building cross-functional relationships}
^{- Identifying opportunities & making your case}
Afternoon
Unconference

Your Instructors

Julian Ramirez

Julian is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox. Previously he’s helped multiple companies build their mobile engineering teams, products, and strategies, going from MVP to PMF at companies like TaskRabbit, Imgur, and Granular. He’s transitioned between hands-on engineer, manager, and manager-of-manager multiple times, and enjoys mentoring others to do the same. Outside of work, you’ll find him tweaking something on his 3D printer, playing piano, or eating out.

Anna Neyzberg

Anna is currently an Engineering Manger at Dropbox. Previous to this she spent many years in software consulting working with companies the likes of Coinbase and Stitchfix. She is a San Francisco native who has done a lot of work in the ruby community and co founded ElixirBridge - an organization that offers free weekend-long workshops for underrepresented populations in tech to learn elixir. When not in front of a keyboard, she is trying to get better at climbing rocks.