Engineering Manager’s Handbook: An insider’s guide to managing software development and engineering teams
Author: Morgan Evans (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing
Publication Date 出版日期: 2023-09-08
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 278 pages
ISBN-10: 1803235357
ISBN-13: 9781803235356
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to engineering management packed with tips, tricks, and techniques to drive results
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
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
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.
Table of Contents
- An Introduction to Engineering Management
- Engineering Leadership Styles
- Common Failure Modes for New Engineering Managers
- Leading Architecture
- Project Planning and Delivery
- Supporting Production Systems
- Working Cross-Functionally
- Communicating with Authority
- Assessing and Improving Team Performance
- Fostering Accountability
- Managing Risk
- Resilient Leadership
- Scaling Your Team
- Changing Priorities, Company Pivots, and Reorgs
- Retaining Talent
- Team design and More
Review
“This book is the first resource I’ve found that covers the breadth and depth of being an EM. My favorite parts are the series of lists that will help you self-reflect and organize. It also shows how substantial the role really is!
This book is for experienced managers looking to self-reflect on their role as jacks of all trades, masters of none. New managers or aspiring ones who want to understand the life of an EM, what to focus on, and what to avoid will also find this book useful. So will managers of managers who want a concise, approachable reference to the answer to, “What do you expect from your engineering managers?” This book has a series of reflective templates that can be used to guide growth or establish identities for yourself or your organization, and will help you develop an appreciation for a role that is hard to explicitly measure but is deeply felt when it is lacking.”
—
GeGe Pincin, Principal Software Engineer at Condé Nast
About the Author
Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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