Committing time to answer questions is the crucial first step
This is Part 3 in my Series on Supporting/Managing Engineers
Configuring bridging, building bridges
Unlike software, systems, network, and voice engineering, regulated engineering disciplines require licensing. According to the National Society of Professional Engineers, a college engineering graduate candidate can "begi...
Sometimes junior technical staff are starved for interesting work while senior staff are overworked
This is Part 2 in my Series on Supporting/Managing Engineers
If a team has lots of technical work to do, and only a few brilliant engineers available, how do you get work to the right people?
In this article, I discuss methods for managing work in IT and technology teams, such as those doing Netw...
Most experienced professionals value the opportunity to mentor others; not so for some elite technologists
To enable more people in a technical team to do work, more people have to know how to do it. But for many engineers, training doesn't come natural.
This is Part 1 in my Series on Managing Engineers
Is one-on-one training a rational activity, or just a feel-good strategy from the HR departm...
Mark Lindsey