Management
General Traits¶
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re:Work | re:Work is a collection of practices, research, and ideas from Google and others to help you put people first |
Pat Kua 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes | 5 Engineering Manager archetypes commonly found in the industry:
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The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers |
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule | For someone on the maker's schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an exception. It doesn't merely cause you to switch from one task to another; it changes the mode in which you work |
Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact |
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How Tos¶
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Manager's Playbook | Heuristics for effective management |
Gergely Orosz Teach by asking questions | Twitter thread from Gergely Orosz |
Managing Remotely |
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A Manager’s Guide to Holding Your Team Accountable | If you struggle with holding people to account, try this |
Gergely Orosz Checklist for (New) Engineering Managers | Areas first-time managers need to master to get up to speed |
Managing Projects¶
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Gergely Orosz A Checklist For First-Time Engineering Managers |
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What do good Engineering Managers do? They taste the soup | The default mode of an engineering manager's work should NOT be to dive deep into every possible (implementation) detail - it's just not feasible |
Guiding critical projects without micromanaging | Being outcomes-driven is the work getting done, with good quality, in reasonable time, without burning out the people involved |
Managing unexpected work requests when your team is busy |
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Managing People¶
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What It's Like To Work With Me As Your Manager | What I'm like, what it's like to work for me,what influenced me as a leader, and what I value |
Will Larson Managing Staff-plus engineers | Incomplete list of helpful things you can do to support Staff-plus engineers |
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Things your manager might not know | Your manager doesn't (and can't!) know every single detail about what you do in your job, and being aware of what they might not know and giving them the information they need to do their job well makes everyone’s job a lot easier |
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors |
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Plans¶
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This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers | 90-day plan for developers who transition into management. In this exclusive article, he breaks down this plan to help engineering leaders set their priorities, gain their footing, and assess their own performance so they can grow fast and start empowering others |
Will Larson Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering | Tactical best practices for starting as a Chief Technology Officer or VP of Engineering |
Hiring¶
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Gergely Orosz Hiring Software Engineers | What do good hiring processes look like and how do we build them? |
Gergely Orosz Retaining Software Engineers and Engineering Managers | As an engineering manager, what are things in my control that I can do to retain software engineers? |
Gergely Orosz Job Ads to Hire Software Engineers: My Advice | Advice on how to write a job posting that is more likely to get qualified applicants in the current, hot hiring market |
Progressing¶
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4 Tips To Jump From Manager To Director | What does it take to get to the Director level? |
Engineering Manager to Director: what it takes? | How to get ready for a director level as much as possible when you are in an engineering manager role |
How to be a successful manager of managers |
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