by uplevel | May 3, 2021 | Blog
David Subar has spent a lot of time thinking about engineering effectiveness. As the founder and managing partner of Interna, he works with technology companies to improve their product management and engineering to be more effective. He keeps a strategic focus on a...
by uplevel | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog
Fifteen years ago, David Glick was happily at Amazon as a Junior IT Project Manager in the Systems Network Operations Center — until his manager told him to move on from the “dying field.” Infrastructure was moving to AWS and Dave followed along to a new role as a...
by uplevel | Mar 31, 2021 | Blog
In 1996, self-proclaimed “alternative kid” Leah Melvoin started at Amazon as a Special Orders Books Buyer — with no computer experience and no college degree. Long before automation, she and her team members worked near large filing cabinets, updating orders and order...
by uplevel | Mar 24, 2021 | Blog
Your calendar likely has weekly 1:1 meetings scheduled, but it’s less likely that those 1:1s actually happen regularly, with productive conversation and actionable takeaways. We’ve all attended lackluster 1:1s — or gotten that “sorry, can we postpone?” Slack message...
by uplevel | Feb 23, 2021 | Blog
Your Uplevel dashboard has always shown insightful metrics about your team’s recent performance to help shape healthier future performance. While we all strive for universal best practices, we need our own unique data to benchmark growth over time. In recent...
by uplevel | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog
Being a manager can feel like the natural evolution from software developer. After years of being an individual contributor, the opportunity to have a team seems attractive. You gain visibility into the rest of the organization, change how you collaborate with others,...
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