Time Management for Engineering Managers

Audience 

Managers drowning with work load and being always on

Why is time management important for EMs

As a manager you don't own your calendar and you have to make yourself available for the team and collaboration partners. As your surface area grows, the number of fires can also grown. You need to scale through people by hiring strong tech leads. But you also need to manage your time very efficiently. This post summarizes very well reasons for poor work life balance for managers. 

An Engineering Manager scales and delivers through influence and time is their greatest currency. Hence, managing time efficiently is crucial to success.

Goal

This post summarizes various techniques I have learnt over the years from my experiences and talking to peers to improve my time management.

Calendar

Emails

Todos

Meetings

References

1. 6 must reads for scaling yourself as a leader