Notes on Engineering Leadership and Public Speaking

Recently I was a panelist on ElaConf's Leadership and Management Panel along with awesome tech bosses Alison Rowland , Caro Griffin and Alisha Miranda . The panel was moderated by Alisha who had crowd-sourced a great list of questions. The panel was for women interested in pursuing a management career path. Alisha started off the panel with a round of introductions from each of us on our manager-origin story. I moved into the tech team lead role after being an individual contributor (IC) for 3 years. Since two years, I've been leading a team of 4 Android developers. Breakout seession about leadership and management at #elaconf . It's a full room!   @yashvprabhu @DramaFeverDevs pic.twitter.com/8lW9lvRGoP — Moldy Dentures (@MoldyDentures) November 5, 2016 Learning about leadership & mgmt with  @yashvprabhu   @carolinesyrup   @arowla   @makeshiftalisha   #elaconf   pic.twitter.com/AUrsOIJjMC — Jen Dionisio (@jdd...

This is probably going to be one of several blog posts related to ElaConf . It's a wonderful conference for empowering women in tech that took place in Philly for the second time recently. One of the breakout sessions at ElaConf was on Technical Blogging which was run by Vaidehi Joshi ( @vaidehijoshi ). Here are my takeaways from that session. We started off by reading Julia Evans' blog post on  processes . Vaidehi asked us to take a few minutes to read it and discuss with a partner. Here are some things that stood out to us in the blog post: Conversational Matter of fact Formatted Code snippets Author's personality shows in the code comments Condensed scope, author links to external content for more research Good introduction to the topic even for a newbie We also took some time doing a fun exercise, with one of us pretending to be a student and the other a teacher. The teacher had to describe " opening a Facebook account to someone who has not used a...