Engineering Managers Guide

Engineering Managers Handbook

A comprehensive guide to engineering management packed with tips, tricks, and techniques to drive results Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features: Acquire the necessary skills to manage engineers across various settings Gain valuable insights into engineering leadership, people management, and driving organizational change Discover pitfalls to avoid as a new engineering manager and understand their causation Book Description: Delightful and customer-centric digital products have become an expectation in the world of business. Engineering managers are uniquely positioned to impact the success of these products and the software systems that power them. Skillful managers guide their teams and companies to develop functional and maintainable systems. This book helps you find your footing as an engineering manager, develop your leadership style, balance your time between engineering and managing, build successful engineering teams in different settings, and work within constraints without sacrificing technical standards or team empathy. You'll learn practical techniques for establishing trust, developing beneficial habits, and creating a cohesive and high-performing engineering team. You'll discover effective strategies to guide and contribute to your team's efforts, facilitating productivity and collaboration. By the end of this book, you'll have the tools and knowledge necessary to thrive as an engineering manager. Whether you're just starting out in your role or seeking to enhance your leadership capabilities, this handbook will empower you to make a lasting impact and drive success in your organization. What You Will Learn: Pitfalls common to new managers and how to avoid them Ways to establish trust and authority Methods and tools for building world-class engineering teams Behaviors to build and maintain a great reputation as a leader Mechanisms to avoid costly missteps that end up requiring re-work Strategies to increase employee retention on your team Techniques to facilitate better product outcomes Who this book is for: This book is a valuable resource for software engineers and developers transitioning into engineering management roles, equipping you with best practices and insights to navigate the new responsibilities effectively. Whether you're a newly promoted engineering manager or an experienced one seeking immediate answers to challenges, this comprehensive and up-to-date guide provides the support you need. Familiarity with the software development lifecycle, including concepts like version control, code review, and deployment, is required.

Engineering Manager's Guide

This book will help you become a better manager.Across the years, we have constantly been gaining experience in writing software, but still, projects are late and people turnover is high. So, it becomes obvious that most problems occur not because we don't know how to develop software, but because we are not good at developing and managing people. Computers don't create software, people do - we need to help more people succeed and good managers can solve this problem. One of the worst things that frequently happens, no matter how many times it backfires, is that people are being thrown into management without any plan or preparation. Unlike our software creation skills, which have been developed over decades of academic and practical learning, we don't learn about management until we enter the industry and see other people do it. It usually begins with an internal job opening in one of the teams, and very often the choice is forced upon us as the only way to progress our careers or "we will get stuck in operations forever". This means that we haven't had enough preparation, we haven't done any formal education, and we haven't got much of an idea about what we should be doing as managers. This book tries to help you handle these situations. It is a step-by-step guide on how to become a good engineering manager, who will deliver software on time and be respected and admired by people.You got your first role of managing a team, either by internal promotion or by external recruitment and now a very big thing is in front of you - "day one". It is the morning of your first working day on a new position with a new team. You need to understand your new role and find out who is in your new team, what they do, and how they relate to the rest of the organization. You will go through all of these topics, and much more, hopefully learn how to become a better manager and a better person.

Engineering Managers Guide