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Engineering Manager's Handbook

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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235356

Pages 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Morgan Evans

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Case for Engineering Management

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Engineering Management

3. Chapter 2: Engineering Leadership Styles

4. Chapter 3: Common Failure Modes for New Engineering Managers

5. Part 2: Engineering

6. Chapter 4: Leading Architecture

7. Chapter 5: Project Planning and Delivery

8. Chapter 6: Supporting Production Systems

9. Part 3: Managing

10. Chapter 7: Working Cross-Functionally

11. Chapter 8: Communicating with Authority

12. Chapter 9: Assessing and Improving Team Performance

13. Chapter 10: Fostering Accountability

14. Chapter 11: Managing Risk

15. Part 4: Transitioning

16. Chapter 12: Resilient Leadership

17. Chapter 13: Scaling Your Team

18. Chapter 14: Changing Priorities, Company Pivots, and Reorgs

19. Part 5: Long-Term Strategies

20. Chapter 15: Retaining Talent

21. Chapter 16: Team Design and More

22. Index

Why subscribe?

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

A/B testing 209

accountability 151

big mistakes, handling 151

mistakes by engineers, handling 152

successes, handling 152, 153

Accountable, Responsible, Participant, Advisor (ARPA) 70

accountable team culture

accountability 151

building 145

guidance, providing 145

ideal behaviors, providing 148

action-oriented roles 235

assessing teams, pitfalls 127

Goodhart’s law 127

McNamara fallacy 128

perverse incentive 127

awareness, raising against reliability 85

metrics 86

metrics, active communication 86

metrics, passive communication 87

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) 159

C

candidate assessment 193

feedback, measuring 193, 194

candor breaks 178

reference link 178

CAR format 122, 123

championship team 187...

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Authors (1)

Morgan Evans

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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