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Engineering Manager's Handbook

You're reading from  Engineering Manager's Handbook

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 Morgan Evans
Profile icon 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 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scenario 2—You enable a narcissistic engineering culture

An engineering manager takes on the leadership of an engineering team. The team is skilled, effective, and efficient, and the manager is happy to lead such a capable team. The manager gets to work supporting and empowering the team. The engineering team is tight-knit; they enjoy each other’s company and make challenging work fun with comradery and jokes. Sometimes, the manager notices that their team’s jokes are at the expense of other teams within the company—for instance, the design team, the product team, the analytics team, or the business development team. Don’t even get them started on the marketing team. The manager thinks this is harmless—after all, they aren’t hurting anyone or being directly rude—so they ignore it and let the team have their fun. Gradually, the engineering team’s lighthearted jokes evolve into cemented opinions. The design team is annoying...

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