boredmgr

I have been into engineering management for quite sometime now. Each organization I have worked with have different expectations. Some of them have expectation of people management. Some of them have the designation as "Engineering Manager" but it turns out to be Delivery management. Some change the definition based on "current priority". Through all this, even though I could add value to various critical engineering decisions, but I have move miles away for day to day coding / code review activities.

should I transition to IC role and if yes, what are some suggestions to do so?

Is there any analytics available out of the box in MS outlook. The idea is with covid + being a middle manager in large organization, the only thing that I get to do is attend meetings. With back to back meetings, I hardly get any time to either write agendas or minutes.

Is there a way I can present a weekly stats to stakeholders in a) number of hours in a week I have spent in meetings. b) number of hours various team members have spent in meetings.

I am not against meetings, but too much of everything is bad. But I do not have any stats to show "what is that too much".

Dear Community, I am Engg Manager in a public listed company where I deliver applications / web apps which use AI models for some/most user journeys.

I am worried that technology will make me redundant in another 8 - 10 yrs time frame. Am I overthinking? if not, what are some suggestions?

Dear community, Please suggest me some getting started resources for learning Common Lisp.

I am a Engineering manager and want to devote some time to write about my journey / learnings / unlearnings. Have a full time job. What are some of the suggestions / do's and dont's

What should I infer from this Karma value?

Dear Friends, I am a Sr. Engg manager at one of the publicly traded companies. With recent changes, things have changed and the product I was leading has been put to cold storage. There has been high attrition too because of these above pay scale decisions. I have been trying to look for new opportunities in the same tech stack / domain but it seems I am lacking things that the companies in the same domain need. My tech stack have been around scala / spark. But I have not been into coding a lot during the recent times. It has mostly been on process/ development management / team management.

I have also been through few interviews. But here the experience has been poles apart. Some companies are asking me to come up with a scalable design to a problem statement, while other companies are asking me very deep into people management skills. Question to the community : What is it that the hiring managers are looking for in today's scheme of Engg Mamanger requirements? Is it a wise decision to get into an IC role at this point of career. If yes, what are some things that the community would suggest?

How can we have a continuous delivery for an On-Prem installable Product when we need to support multiple versions? More importantly, in such products, the codebase is not in a single repo. The repos can grow/shrink across versions.

To elaborate more on the Problem statement. [ ON-PREM Installable ] Let's say you roll out first version( v1) of your product and you deploy it to 2 customer environments. Once you deploy you need to support like providing hotfixes, minor version upgrades. In the meantime, you continue to innovate and add new features / remove a few features in the next major version(v2). But since you already have customers on version v1 and it will be the choice of the customer to accept/reject the newer versions. You would get new customers for version v2. So now you have 2 major versions out there with customers using 2 different versions of your product. So the problem now becomes 2-fold. You need to have your team continuously support both the versions. Now the easier thing would be to discontinue the older version as soon as you have new version rolled out. But the downside is you cannot term your customers on older versions as active customers, neither they will be able to back you on the new innovations that you added to the newer versions.

Hope I have been able to elaborate on the problem. Any suggestions?