The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization
Take a 360-degree tour of the engineering manager’s role and responsibilities. This book brings them to life with practical scenarios and references and ensures their relevance to your daily work.

From upkeeping technical skills, to managing people and stakeholders, to ensuring timely deliverables, the job of the engineering manager is fast-paced, complex, and often short on learning resources. Fear not, this book has you covered with tips on managing evolving processes, delivering impactful projects in a timely manner, setting goals and priorities among product and technical initiatives, and helping your team focus and deliver.

Business priorities are changing at a much faster pace than ever before with new technologies being introduced and adopted regularly. This book will help managers adopt modern practices to meet this moment and aid them in helping engineering teams succeed. The Complete Engineering Manager will leave you with a broader perspective and deeper skill set to apply to engineering management.

What You Will Learn



• Employ the SELF framework for self-management and learn to build trust with team members
• Manage performance and craft individualized growth plans for employee success
• Evolve your team’s development, delivery, and technical processes to improve their efficiency
• Drive impact for your organization through prioritization, strategy and value delivery
• Build a high-performing engineering team with a strong and positive culture

Who This Book is For

New, aspiring, and experienced engineering managers who are looking for resources to address challenges in their role.

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The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization
Take a 360-degree tour of the engineering manager’s role and responsibilities. This book brings them to life with practical scenarios and references and ensures their relevance to your daily work.

From upkeeping technical skills, to managing people and stakeholders, to ensuring timely deliverables, the job of the engineering manager is fast-paced, complex, and often short on learning resources. Fear not, this book has you covered with tips on managing evolving processes, delivering impactful projects in a timely manner, setting goals and priorities among product and technical initiatives, and helping your team focus and deliver.

Business priorities are changing at a much faster pace than ever before with new technologies being introduced and adopted regularly. This book will help managers adopt modern practices to meet this moment and aid them in helping engineering teams succeed. The Complete Engineering Manager will leave you with a broader perspective and deeper skill set to apply to engineering management.

What You Will Learn



• Employ the SELF framework for self-management and learn to build trust with team members
• Manage performance and craft individualized growth plans for employee success
• Evolve your team’s development, delivery, and technical processes to improve their efficiency
• Drive impact for your organization through prioritization, strategy and value delivery
• Build a high-performing engineering team with a strong and positive culture

Who This Book is For

New, aspiring, and experienced engineering managers who are looking for resources to address challenges in their role.

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The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization

The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization

by Ananth Ramachandran
The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization

The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization

by Ananth Ramachandran

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Overview

Take a 360-degree tour of the engineering manager’s role and responsibilities. This book brings them to life with practical scenarios and references and ensures their relevance to your daily work.

From upkeeping technical skills, to managing people and stakeholders, to ensuring timely deliverables, the job of the engineering manager is fast-paced, complex, and often short on learning resources. Fear not, this book has you covered with tips on managing evolving processes, delivering impactful projects in a timely manner, setting goals and priorities among product and technical initiatives, and helping your team focus and deliver.

Business priorities are changing at a much faster pace than ever before with new technologies being introduced and adopted regularly. This book will help managers adopt modern practices to meet this moment and aid them in helping engineering teams succeed. The Complete Engineering Manager will leave you with a broader perspective and deeper skill set to apply to engineering management.

What You Will Learn



• Employ the SELF framework for self-management and learn to build trust with team members
• Manage performance and craft individualized growth plans for employee success
• Evolve your team’s development, delivery, and technical processes to improve their efficiency
• Drive impact for your organization through prioritization, strategy and value delivery
• Build a high-performing engineering team with a strong and positive culture

Who This Book is For

New, aspiring, and experienced engineering managers who are looking for resources to address challenges in their role.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798868802669
Publisher: Apress
Publication date: 12/28/2024
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 383
Product dimensions: 7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ananth Ramachandran is a seasoned engineering leader who has experience in building happy, productive and high-performing engineering teams. He started his career in a Fortune 500 company as a software engineer and later found his passion in startups and building engineering teams from the ground up. He’s passionate about scaling up people, product and technology strategy and ultimately contributing to an organization’s success.

He runs a newsletter for Engineering Managers, techmanagerguide.substack.com, where he writes about day-to-day experiences, challenges, and modern engineering management practices and techniques. He speaks on podcasts and at meetups, and mentors and trains software professionals and aspiring leaders.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Congratulations, You're an Engineering Manager.- Chapter1: Engineering Manager's Starter Kit.- Part 2: Managing People.- Chapter 2: Self-Management.- Chapter 3: It’s All About Trust.- Chapter 4: Mindful One-on-Ones.- Chapter 5: Managing Performance.- Chapter 6: Working with Your Manager.- Part 3: Managing Processes.- Chapter 7: Evolving Processes and Bringing Change.- Chapter 8: Development and Delivery Processes. Chapter 9: Technical Processes.- Part 4: Mastering Prioritization.- Chapter 10: The Bigger Picture.- Chapter 11: Pragmatic Approach To Prioritization.- Chapter 12: Prioritizing Technical Initiatives.- Part 5: Delivering Impactful Projects.- Chapter 13: Modern Delivery Practices.- Chapter 14: Measuring Delivery Effectiveness.- Chapter 15: Managing Stakeholders, Blockers and Progress.- Part 6: Building High-Performing Teams.- Chapter 16: Make Your Team Great Again.- Chapter 17: Building a Strong Engineering Culture.- Chapter 18: Becoming an Organizational Leader.

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