https://www.kencochrane.com/tags/engineering-manager/ Recent content in Engineering Manager on KenCochrane.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Powered by [Hugo](//gohugo.io). Theme by [PPOffice](https://github.com/ppoffice). Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kencochrane.com/2021/03/29/why-you-should-give-new-employees-a-30-60-90/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kencochrane.com/2021/03/29/why-you-should-give-new-employees-a-30-60-90/ In the last blog post, we talked about ramping up your new developers as quickly as possible and we concentrated on their local development environment and why it is important to get them up and running quickly. Getting that setup is important but is only one step of many that you need to do to make sure they become a fully functional team member. An employee will need to make sure they have system access, business knowledge, employee connections as well as the skills required for their job. https://www.kencochrane.com/2021/03/28/on-boarding-new-developers-to-the-team/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kencochrane.com/2021/03/28/on-boarding-new-developers-to-the-team/ When you hire someone new for your development team, one of the primary goals is to ramp up that person so that they can be a fully contributing member as soon as possible. When dealing with developers one way to decrease this time is to make it as easy as possible for someone to commit code to production on their first day. For a lot of companies, this isn’t possible and I hear horror stories of new employees taking a week or two just to get their local environments configured and up and running. https://www.kencochrane.com/2021/03/27/how-i-hire-software-developers/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kencochrane.com/2021/03/27/how-i-hire-software-developers/ As an engineering manager, one of the things that you will need to do from time to time is hire new employees for your team. I have been involved in hiring developers for around 15 years now. I have done everything from just being on an interview panel, all the way to the hiring manager. Each of the roles on the interview panel has different responsibilities but they helped me finely tune the hiring practice I use today.