Rod Begbie
Originally from Scotland, Rod now lives in San Francisco, CA and works as an Engineering Manager at Dropbox.
Originally from Scotland, Rod now lives in Barcelona and is an engineering leadership coach at BestPracticer. Before this, he spent four years as a Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox. Past lives have been as Co-Founder & CTO of Sosh, VP of Software Engineering at Anova Culinary, and writing code at places like Slide, Bose, and – for 39 days – Google. His writing is featured in O’Reilly’s ’97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts’.
Break silos and build cross-functional bridges
Cross-functional alignment is what makes (or breaks) teams. When engineering, product, and business come together to navigate conflict, foster collaboration, and encourage shared ownership, progress soars.
Getting to know your team’s strengths and weaknesses
How can engineering leaders understand more about what makes their reports happy, and leverage their strengths to build a happy and productive team?
Best practice for seamless product integration
How to achieve successful integration within existing infrastructure
Sourcing the perfect product for your team
Avoid the quick-fix and find the best product for your needs
Filtering your language as an engineering leader
How to improve your ability to convey intended meaning
Increase your hiring success with job success profiles
Don’t make your life harder by not knowing who the right person for the job is
Being right is only half the battle: how to optimize your interpersonal connections
True or False. Zero or One. Computers are viciously black and white in their logic. Humans, on the other hand, are messy — Emotional, forgetful, biased and opinionated.
