Managing for Happiness: Tips to Run a Productive Engineering Team

Interview with Jurgen Appelo, leadership speaker, writer and entrepreneur. He is an expert on the topic of managing teams to maximize happiness, which heavily bolsters productivity. Learn his tips, tricks and strategies in making it happen, and make your own team happier so you all win.In this interview we're covering:Connection between happiness and performancePrerequisites for high performanceCreate a company culture based on experimentationMethods for managers to learn their team's needsSurveys and measuring team happinessThe process to build a management system for happinessSigns of a happy teamMethods to engage employees to take action for their happinessExcerpt from the interview:"There isn’t one process to manage for happiness.The best way is to think outside the box and to do the things you enjoy and others might enjoy as well. Here are some examples of what I did as an engineering manager:I invited people for dinner at my house and surprised them with the fact that we would cook together.I put a bell in the office..."Click here to read the full interview!

Om Podcasten

Level-up Engineering reveals actionable management secrets from some of the most successful engineering leaders (VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, CTO). This podcast brings you key insights from fellow engineering managers, to level-up your management skills and to take your software development team to the next level. The podcast covers the biggest challenges engineering leaders face, showing exactly how others overcame these challenges. Learn the best practices on management and leadership to understand people and organizations as much as you understand code. We interview engineering leaders and dive into the fundamentals behind hiring and retaining developers, motivating developers, scaling dev teams, mentoring developers, and much more! The episodes are brought to you by Apex Lab, a digital product development agency offering end-to-end, stress-free product delivery. Check them out on https://www.apexlab.io/ If you have any feedback or would like to be featured on Level-up Engineering please, drop us a line at [email protected]