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Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork

Name: Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork
Description: Tanya Reilly's LeadDev talk on glue work, the invisible coordination and support tasks engineers do that keep teams successful but can hurt careers.

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HN refers to it in career and promotion discussions, including its warning about doing glue work too early in your career.

Tanya Reilly's LeadDev talk on glue work, the invisible coordination and support tasks engineers do that keep teams successful but can hurt careers.

“Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career” (HN, 2020)

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@st1x7 Dec 2020 Recommends

on HN thread John Carmack: Career Advice

> My suggestion is to find gaps that aren't integration efforts, if possible, that are instead extension efforts. Yes! This can go even further and the technical integration work can easily slip into soft/people/team/project/management integration. Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career: Video: [this video] Summary article: [link]

Warns against doing glue work too early in your career.

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@BossingAround Nov 2020 Cites it

on HN thread Being Glue

Based on the talk [0] where the OP suggested it number of times. She mentions the engineer being rusty and having significantly fewer code contributions than her peers. In general, if the glue person has intermediate knowledge of the codebase, they'd get promoted without much controversy. In such a case, it should not be difficult for them to bang out a couple of features and ship it, for example. [0] [this video]

Talk on glue work and promotion, cited to discuss a case.

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@csours Feb 2022 Cites it

on HN thread You have two jobs (2017)

Interesting to think of this in the context of Glue Work. [this video] Building culture means handling these opposing forces in a productive manner.

Relates glue work to building culture.

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