MARTIN JARCIK
Engineering Management Mentor
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Hands-on actionable tips drawn from my 20 years of international experience with companies like Google, Alibaba, NICE, Seznam, plus startups and scale-ups. I’ve got ready-to-use materials (templates, tools, and more) to help you get started fast.
Can’t wait to share the insights I’ve picked up from my own mentors like Uncle Bob, Dave Farley, Jeff Patton, Jeff Gothelf, Michael Sahota, Jurgen Appelo, Simon Powers, Craig Larman, Jeff Sutherland, Karim Harbott along the way.
Regular online mentoring
99 EUR / 30 min / SESSION
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I do online mentoring only unless agreed otherwise.
We can explore anything you need, here are some ideas:
- Accelerate your career growth
- Create an effective hiring process
- Build a strong onboarding experience
- Conduct 1:1s that people enjoy
- Set meaningful performance goals
- Transform a group of individuals into an A-team
- Address underperformance and manage challenging individuals
- Measure what matters — whether it’s yourself, a team member, the team, or the organization
- Be a leader worth following
- Shift from firefighting to strategic thinking
- Make work delivery predictable
- Set up a delivery process that supports rather than hinders you
- Build a culture of continuous improvement
- Enable an organization to unite and work as a team using OKRs
- Scale your team quickly, efficiently, and effectively
- Develop a career framework that boosts your organization
- Craft a strategy that inspires and aligns people
Group Mentoring Programs
Engineering Manager Starter
Congrats on your promotion to Engineering Manager! 🎉 The challenge? It’s no longer about your personal performance anymore, but building a high-performing team. Don’t worry, I’m here to help you make a smooth transition and show you the ropes so you can truly shine in your new role. Let’s make this journey a great one!
Next Iteration Date: January - March 2025 Length: 3 months / 12 x 90 min weekly online sessions Group Size: 3 - 6 ppl
999 EUR / 499 EUR*
* Get 50% off on a course dedicated to your company with min. purchase of 8 seats.
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Lead with Confidence
- Move from Builder to Leader
- Start thinking as a leader and get the shit done
- Be more like football coach, less like best friend or mom
- Adjust your style to fit different situations and team maturity
- Stay in control without micromanaging
- Act as a Communication Bridge
- Enable smooth information flow both up and down
- Advocate needs, constraints, and successes for both up and down
- Shift from Firefighting to Strategic Thinking
- Spot what’s keeping you constantly busy and cut it out
- Move from reactive to proactive, strategic thinking
- Create and roll out a solid strategy
- See the Big Picture
- Start seeing teams in your organization as a connected system
- Work with your peers EMs as a SCRUM team
Build a High Performing Team
- Build a Self-Organized Team
- Encourage team decisions made together
- Foster a culture of collaboration
- Emphasize personal accountability
- Inspire a sense of ownership across the team
- Foster Team Growth
- Craft development plans that truly inspire growth
- Have one-on-one conversations that matter
- Imprint continuous improvement in the team's culture
- Develop strong feedback culture
- Manage underperformers with confidence and care
- Hire Great Talent and Bring Them Up to Speed Quickly
- Create candidate experience that makes them to choose you
- Create an onboarding that helps people hit the ground running
- Use hiring as employer branding
- See through people at interviews, separate talent from BS
- Upgrade Your Game With the Right Habits and Values
- Foster healthy disagreement for the best ideas to win
- Celebrate success
- Be driven by values, not results
- Build strong relationships across the company
Master Delivery
- Shift Focus from Outputs to Outcomes
- Collaborate with Product Managers to co-create impactful solutions
- Avoid too complex or uncertain tasks using the discovery process
- Lead with purpose, clarity and focus using well specified and split epics
- Make SCRUM Working For You
- Discover how no BS pragmatic Agile looks like
- Reduce number of meeting hours and enable deep work
- Improve team focus and reduce multitasking
- Measure What Really Matters
- Team-level metrics
- Delivery metrics
- Operational metrics
- Speed mentoring
- Bring your own problems
Conditional Bonus Content
I have some cherry on top for you in exchange for little bit of effort. 🙂
Checklist For First-Time Engineering Managers
To become a new manager easier I created a checklist that I wish I had when starting out as a new EM. All I want from you is to share on LinkedIn that you board on this mentoring journey.
Diploma of learned and applied knowledge
I don’t issue a diploma of attendance. But you can take a free exam where you also elaborate on your applied learning. Should you pass I issue a beautiful certificate for you.
Pre-recorded session Accelerate your professional growth
If you write and share on LinkedIn your review on this course, I’ll give you access to pre-recorded session that’s gonna rocket your career growth.
Reviews
Martin helped us tremendously to take our R&D agility on the next level, invested a lot of energy into couching our developers and breaking several legacy status quo. Workflows and processes has been streamlined and cleaned up. — Damian Brhel, CTO at Brand Embassy
Martin has amazing ability of not only seeing potential, but also is able to help its holder to find an opportunity to improve himself in unexpected ways. He is direct and trustworthy, and has a drive that motivates others, encouraging them to make difficult decisions themselves. — Michal Tichy, Principal Engineer
Martin is one of the few people who inspire me with his constant hunger for improvement and sensible perspective. — Peter Varga, Group Head at Dr. Max
I had the pleasure of working with Martin during company transformation. The team achieved great successes in a short period of time thanks to his guidance and direction. — Stefan Minnaar, CEO at Elstefco Tech.
Working with Martin has been enriching, inspiring and extremely productive. I learnt from him immensely not only about "real Agility" but also about People's management and Organisational engineering. — Michael Forni, Enterprise Coach at Virtusa
Martin is not only a professional in his field but also a very kind and honest person with a great sense of humour. He had shown advanced skills of leadership and helped both our Scrum Masters team and R&D management team to learn new things, he challenged us with our decisions and was never afraid to say his opinion. — Kristina Melsova, CEO at Atlaseek