Summary
Engineering managers can too often fall into one of two failure modes with their product managers: acting as order takers or becoming quietly adversarial. Neither leads to highly productive teams or fulfilled managers. This discussion will explore how to build product-engineering relationships grounded in trust and mutual respect, where collaboration is the default rather than personal friction, and where pushback is both expected and effective.
Host
Michael Stephens
Director of Engineering @ Yelp
Michael got his start in engineering management ten years ago at Yelp after joining as an Android engineer a couple years before. Since then he's moved around the Yelp engineering team managing a variety of teams and groups that spanned user growth, consumer experiences, teams coming in from acquisitions, and content collection and understanding. He's been a big fan of the ELC community for the past decade and excited to be participating in this year's summit.
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