Engineering Management

This page covers notes on Engineering Management scribbled under time constraint. Hope to iterate and refine them with time. However, this is a good starting point for someone new to management to start developing perspective about the job. 

Must read : Different phases of a manager's growth

Building Trust

1. How to build trust as an Engineering Manager ?
2. Management style
3. An enchilada of conflicts resolution

Team Building and culture

1. What does a healthy team look like
2. How to build happy teams
3. How to build engineering morale in the team 
4. How to help engineers debug burnout
5. What does the culture of your team look like 

Decision Making and Delegation

1. Decision making and judgement calls 
2. Why you need to learn to delegate better to scale your career 
3. How to be effective at delegation and how to scale decision making - In Progress

Learning and self-awareness

1. How to continue to develop yourself as a manager 
2. How do you know you are a good manager
3. How to discover your blind spots as a leader and how to turn them around- In Progress
4. Amazon Principle Engineer Review - Technique to uncover the root cause and not treat the symptoms

Roadmapping and Prioritization

1. How do you build a product team's roadmap
2. Guide to give an effective roadmap presentation for EMs
3. How not to prioritize - death by a thousand cuts - In Progress
4. Product metric primer

Execution

1. States of dysfunction of a team
2. Build vs Buy tradeoffs for managers
3. Execution vs Strategy

Managing Up

1. How to manage your skip - playbook
2. Managing up : Beyond your chain : Guardian Angels

Senior Managers/Manager of Managers

1. Different phases of a manager life
2. What would be your biggest challenge while onboarding if you join the team
3. What are good attributes of a new Senior Manager
4. How to get better at re-orgs
5. Memos : Famous critical points in businesses
6. Inside story of a layoff - demystifying layoffs

Hiring and Retention

1. How would you hire the first 1, 10, 100, 1000 engineers - In Progress
2. Hiring pitch and how it varies by team context - In Progress

Collaboration

1. Difference between PM and TPM roles
2. How to smoothen your cross functional project with multiple stake holders

Communication

1. Executive Communication for Engineering Managers : How to give an effective roadmap presentation
2. Pyramid Principle
3. How to communicate a strategy change to a team that gets impacted - In Progress
4. Crucial Conversations - In Progress
5. PM Template list 

EM Job Search

1. Tips for answering EM interview questions
2. Engineering Manager Interview Questions
3. The Firehorse Effect - pro tip for being successful in a new leadership role
4. The art of saying Goodbye - Goodbye Note
5. The art of introduction

New Managers

1. Maker vs Manager - work life balance edition
2. What are good attributes of a new Senior Manager
3. Entrepreneurial Superpowers

Writing skills

1. 3 properties of content and the effect you want to have
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Building Influence

1. How to be more likeable as a leader
2. Modern Leadership Principles

Questions

1. Questions to ask as an EM that can make almost any idea better
2. Questions to ask before taking up a new job
3. Questions to make sure you have built a great product roadmap
4. Great questions to ask as a PM