Listen "SRE Leadership with Michelle Casey (Episode 93)"
Episode Synopsis
Send us a textThis week Michelle Casey shares her insights as a 'head of' engineering manager in the SRE context. This was one of my favourite conversations on the podcast so far. We cover topics such as...🤷🏽 Why move into leadership?👁️ Learning from other leaders💎 What is unique about SRE leadership?👑 Women in engineering leadership...and we go through some feedback I got as a leader recently.Resources that Michelle mentions during the episode:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (book): https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-dysfunctions/The Phoenix Project (novel): https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/The Unicorn Project (novel): https://itrevolution.com/product/the-unicorn-project/How Complex Systems Fail (website): https://how.complexsystems.fail/How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day (talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5U85LSk0MThe Curse of the Systems Thinker (article): https://blog.relyabilit.ie/the-curse-of-systems-thinkers/Confessions of an SRE Manager (talk): https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon23americas/presentation/hatchGender Decoder (website): https://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/You can find Michelle on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-casey-00b39837/Steve Licks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tailsofstevielicks?igsh=MWFhenVzdzh6Zmtudw%3D%3DYou can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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