Ep. 13 Rong Lu: from Engineer to PM to Manager, her 16+ year journey at Microsoft

Show Chapters

Full-text transcript

• Intro (00:36)
• What is a PM? (00:58)
• Remote is hard (03:39)
• Pivotal Moment #1: Moving to Redmond (04:46)
• Great Managers (07:24)
• From Feature Team to Cross-Team Collaboration (08:23)
• Owning cross-company collaboration (10:44)
• From acquisition to a partnership playbook (16:39)
• Creating the Visual Studio Code C++ Extension (17:30)
• Pivotal Moment #2: Becoming a Manager (21:05)
• Autonomy vs. Directed (23:58)
• Has your perception of a manager changed much now that you are one? (25:04)
• Situational Leadership (26:16)
• Coaching vs. autonomy (30:27)
• Pivotal Moment #3: Dev to PM (32:47)
• What brought Rong outsized joy (37:12)
• Outtro (39:46)

Links from the show

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