Experienced team leader Akanksha Gupta helps you explore whether software engineering management is the right move for your career, guides you through preparing for the position, and gives you all the tools you need to thrive in the role. Thought-provoking exercises help you apply what you learn to your daily professional life, and prepare you for making the big decisions about software.
About the technology
A software engineering manager needs to be an amazing communicator, an effective decision maker, and a thoughtful mentor. Your success depends on your ability to evaluate and manage projects, motivate and lead your team, and coolly handle whatever crisis each new day brings. It's a big transition, and this book will guide you every step of the way.
About the book
Think Like a Software Engineering Manager teaches you how to hire, train, and lead a successful development team. You'll start with building and managing your team to maximize performance. You'll then quickly progress to strategies for delivering large scale projects, cultivating excellence in your projects, and managing change. Author Akanksha Gupta's battle stories and industry anecdotes from her work at Amazon, Audible, Robinhood, and Microsoft reveal how the experts handle the biggest engineering management challenges.
What's inside
About the reader
For new and aspiring software engineering managers.
About the author
Akanksha Gupta is an engineering leader at Amazon AWS. She has served as an engineering manager at Robinhood, Audible, and Microsoft and passionately champions the cause of empowering women within the tech industry.
The technical editor on this book was Bruce Bergman.
Table of Contents
PART 1
1 Exploring the engineering manager role
2 Individual contributor to engineering manager
3 Managing people, teams, and yourself
4 Managing performance
5 Delegation: Learn to let go
6 Rewards and recognition
7 Hiring
8 Handling attrition
PART 2
9 Working with cross-functional partners
10 Project management, execution, and delivery
11 Managing expectations
PART 3
12 Engineering and operational excellence
13 Organizational change management
14 Time management
15 Beyond this book: Grow yourself
