Engineering Manager's Handbook: An insider's guide to managing software development and engineering teams

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.

一本充滿技巧、竅門和技術的工程管理綜合指南，以推動成果為目標。
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主要特點：

- 獲得在不同環境中管理工程師所需的技能。
- 獲得有關工程領導、人員管理和推動組織變革的寶貴見解。
- 發現新任工程經理應避免的陷阱及其原因。

書籍描述：

在商業世界中，令人愉悅且以客戶為中心的數字產品已成為期望。工程經理在影響這些產品和驅動它們的軟件系統的成功方面處於獨特的位置。熟練的經理引導他們的團隊和公司開發功能強大且易於維護的系統。
本書將幫助您作為工程經理找到立足點，發展自己的領導風格，平衡工程和管理之間的時間，建立在不同環境中成功的工程團隊，並在不犧牲技術標準或團隊同理心的情況下在限制條件下工作。您將學習建立信任、發展有益習慣和創建一個有凝聚力且高效的工程團隊的實用技巧。您將發現有效的策略來引導並為團隊的努力做出貢獻，促進生產力和協作。通過本書，您將擁有作為工程經理所需的工具和知識。無論您是剛開始擔任這個角色還是希望增強領導能力，本手冊都將使您能夠產生持久的影響並在組織中取得成功。

您將學到什麼：

- 新經理常見的陷阱以及如何避免它們。
- 建立信任和權威的方法和工具。
- 建立世界一流工程團隊的方法和工具。
- 建立和維護作為領導者的良好聲譽的行為。
- 避免需要重新工作的昂貴錯誤的機制。
- 提高團隊員工留任率的策略。
- 促進更好的產品結果的技巧。

本書適合對象：

本書是一個對於轉型為工程管理角色的軟件工程師和開發人員來說寶貴的資源，為您提供有效應對新責任的最佳實踐和見解。無論您是新晉工程經理還是經驗豐富的工程經理，尋求對挑戰的即時答案，這本全面且最新的指南都將為您提供所需的支持。需要熟悉軟件開發生命周期的概念，包括版本控制、代碼審查和部署。

1. An Introduction to Engineering Management
2. Engineering Leadership Styles
3. Common Failure Modes for New Engineering Managers
4. Leading Architecture
5. Project Planning and Delivery
6. Supporting Production Systems
7. Working Cross-Functionally
8. Communicating with Authority
9. Assessing and Improving Team Performance
10. Fostering Accountability
11. Managing Risk
12. Resilient Leadership
13. Scaling Your Team
14. Changing Priorities, Company Pivots, and Reorgs
15. Retaining Talent
16. Team design and More

工程管理導論
工程領導風格
新任工程經理常見失敗模式
領導架構
專案規劃與交付
支援生產系統
跨部門合作
權威溝通
評估和改善團隊表現
培養責任感
風險管理
靈活領導
團隊擴展
優先事項變更、公司轉型和重組
留住人才
團隊設計等等