InternshipKey terms and common mistakes
The words you will hear in Engineering Management work and the mistakes that most often cost interns approvals.
Key terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | Regular private meeting between a manager and a team member |
| Sprint | A short, fixed period of planned work |
| Velocity | How much work a team usually finishes in a sprint |
| Retrospective | A meeting to improve how the team works |
| OKR | Objectives and key results: goals with measurable outcomes |
| Technical debt | Shortcuts that make future work slower |
| Incident review | Blameless analysis after something breaks |
| Delegation | Giving ownership of work to others |
Common mistakes to avoid
- Doing all the hard work yourself instead of growing the team.
- Skipping one-on-ones when busy.
- Setting deadlines without the team's estimates.
- Blaming people in incident reviews.
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