Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

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I was hoping for heavy nugget of wisdom or war stories on the topics I'm struggling with in my few months acting as EM but it's hard to get there on a book covering so much. I always wondered why regular leaders treat so hard their people, forgetting about human values and just asking for output and results without knowing context of every team member. She invites us to self-reflect on how we want to lead and support our team(s), in a healthy and sustainable fashion, while keeping our sanity.

Learn to Balance People Management and Technical Leadership: As an engineering manager, you’re required to manage both people and technical aspects of a project. Grab your post-its and notebooks, this is such a fun and practical read for anyone going into management from the engineering path. It can be very tough for those of us who didn’t go into Engineering with the distinct concept that we would become managers, but still want to do our best to support our teams. Encourage team members to update their skills and knowledge and provide opportunities for them to do so.It's not just important, it's crucial that we iterate on our own skills as managers so that we can properly support everyone around individuals, peers, leadership, and the business.

You can never be prepared enough for managing and leading people, but if you give it a good try, you'll be one step ahead of yourself. Every technical term is explained, and most are irrelevant to the bigger picture: to be a better manager, you need to focus much more on humane than technical things. This involves setting priorities, delegating tasks appropriately, and ensuring that projects stay on track.A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be.