Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you’ll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.
Managing people is hard, and the industry as a whole is bad at it. Many managers lack the experience, training, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. From mentoring interns to working in senior management, this book will take you through the stages of management and provide actionable advice on how to approach the obstacles you’ll encounter as a technical manager.
A few of the 97 things you should know:
“Three Ways to Be the Manager Your Report Needs” by Duretti Hirpa
“The First Two Questions to Ask When Your Team Is Struggling” by Cate Huston
“Fire Them!” by Mike Fisher
“The 5 Whys of Organizational Design” by Kellan Elliott-McCrea
“Career Conversations” by Raquel Vélez
“Using 6-Page Documents to Close Decisions” by Ian Nowland
“Ground Rules in Meetings” by Lara Hogan
5 reviews for 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
Jose Maria
Rated 5 out of 5
June 12, 2023
El libro está en muy buen estado. Muchas gracias.
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Dorian Black
Rated 5 out of 5
January 6, 2022
I am working through this book with my leadership team.There are some topics that aren't very good, but since each is only 2-4 pages, it is easy to mo...More
I am working through this book with my leadership team. There are some topics that aren't very good, but since each is only 2-4 pages, it is easy to move on to the next one. Some are fantastic and they alone could have a HBR article or a short book written about them.
This is not the type of book you read in a weekend and then forget about. I highly recommend that people who read this, read one idea per week, and apply it to their work to test drive it, before moving on to the next idea.
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Ionel Condor
Rated 5 out of 5
December 26, 2020
Full of advices that I hope will be useful for my collegues that are starting in this role. I acquired copies for them after I read my copy.I had no s...More
Full of advices that I hope will be useful for my collegues that are starting in this role. I acquired copies for them after I read my copy. I had no such book many many years ago when I started as a Dev Manager so most probably I did a lot of mistakes or invented many things already invented by others, at the expense of company’s time :). This book will help you to do your job better , that is for sure.
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CJH
Rated 4 out of 5
April 25, 2020
This book seems to have good information so far, but I wanted to highlight that it is based on software engineering. That certainly doesn't negate the...More
This book seems to have good information so far, but I wanted to highlight that it is based on software engineering. That certainly doesn't negate the information, but the context is important.
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Jay Sellers
Rated 4 out of 5
March 22, 2020
Lots of great information ranging from new ideas to basic reminders. I love the layout of the book, it enables a "choose your own adventure" style rat...More
Lots of great information ranging from new ideas to basic reminders. I love the layout of the book, it enables a "choose your own adventure" style rather than "read everything to get anything".
There are some topics that aren't very good, but since each is only 2-4 pages, it is easy to move on to the next one.
Some are fantastic and they alone could have a HBR article or a short book written about them.
This is not the type of book you read in a weekend and then forget about.
I highly recommend that people who read this, read one idea per week, and apply it to their work to test drive it, before moving on to the next idea.
I had no such book many many years ago when I started as a Dev Manager so most probably I did a lot of mistakes or invented many things already invented by others, at the expense of company’s time :). This book will help you to do your job better , that is for sure.