Ramachandran The Complete Engineering Manager

Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 979-8-8688-0267-6
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten, eBook

Take a 360 degree tour of the engineering manager’s role and responsibilities. This book brings them to life with practical scenarios and references, and ensures their relevance to your daily work.

From upkeeping technical skills, to managing people and stakeholders, to ensuring timely deliverables, the job of the engineering manager is fast-paced, complex, and often short on learning resources. Fear not, this book has you covered with tips on managing evolving processes, delivering impactful projects in a timely manner, setting goals and priorities among product and technical initiatives, and helping your team focus and deliver.

The Complete Engineering Manager will leave you with a broader perspective and deeper skill set to apply to engineering management. 

What You Will Learn

• Build a compelling roadmap with your product manager and set strategy, direction, and goals with your team

• Identify what’s working and not working for your engineering team

• Evolve your team’s development, delivery, and technical processes to improve their efficiency 
• Recognize priorities that matter the most for you, your team, and your organization
• Prioritize aggressively between product and technical initiative
• Adopt modern engineering management practices such as utilizing AI

Who This Book is For

New, aspiring, and experienced engineering managers who are looking for resources to address challenges in their role.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramachandran, Ananth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Managing People

Manage yourself and people around you better

? Know your people

? Start with yourSELF

¦ Situation

¦ Energy

¦ Learning

¦ Focus

? Managing your direct reports

¦ 1-1 is all about showing care

¦ Effective performance review

¦ Tailoring out personal growth plans

¦ Mastering difficult conversations

¦ Creating visibility for your direct reports

? Managing your manager

¦ Does Trust exist?

¦ What’s important for your boss?

¦ Managing expectations

¦ It’s not always rosy

¦ Help your boss to help you

? Managing stakeholders

¦ Building partnerships with your stakeholders

¦ Stakeholder mapping

¦ Managing expectations

¦ Shadowing

¦ Interfacing and engaging

Chapter 2: Processes

Identify processes that’s working and not for your engineering team and to evolve development, delivery and

technical processes to improve their efficiency and throughput

? Identify what’s working and not in your engineering process

¦ What is a process?

¦ 4 key elements of a process

¦ Stages of process evolution

¦ How can you effect a change in a process?

? Development & Delivery process

¦ Are software estimations myth?

¦ Should your team use TDD?

¦ Effective code review process

¦ Let’s talk about deployment

¦ Process for experimentation

¦ Release process for your mobile apps

? Technical process

¦ Guild process

¦ Architecture review and decision making

¦ Technical incident management

¦ Operational review

? Key metrics and ownership of your team’s processes

¦ Success metrics of processes

¦ Ownership

¦ Ideal RACI matrix

Chapter 3: Projects & Delivery

Deliver impact projects with good quality and in a timely manner by fine tuning delivery metrics of your

engineering team

? Iteratively deliver projects to enable fast feedback loop

? Integrating effective QA process into your team’s delivery

? Fine tune your team’s delivery metrics

? Removing blockers for your team’s deliverable

Chapter 4: Prioritization

Recognize rapidly changing priorities that matters the most for you, your team and organization by using

prioritization matrix, goal setting, roadmapping and delegation techniques

? Prioritize what to work on right now and next few months

? Balance between product and tech initiatives to create an impactful roadmap

? Setting technical strategy, direction, goal and focus for your team

? Use delegation to good effect

Chapter 5: Being Just Technical Enough

? How hands-on should you be?

? Your participation in technical decisions

? Your participation in technical incidents

? Technical interfacing

Chapter 6: Organization

Grow into an engineering leader that every organization needs

? Gaining business understanding

? Alignment with organization goals and strategy

? Leading organization transformation

? Network with organization leaders

Chapter 7: Team

Building a happy and productive engineering team that everyone loves to work

? Building a happy team with Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose

? Making your team productive with Automation, Flow and Excellence

? Can your team be self managed?

? Improving team’s engagement

Chapter 8: Culture

Building a strong engineering culture focusing on innovation, learning and collaboration that brings

value

? Defining your engineering team’s culture values

? Create an environment for innovation

? Promote learning and collaborative culture

Über Autor(innen)

Ananth Ramachandran is an engineering manager currently based in Berlin. Alongside his technical acumen, his current passion lies in scaling up people, product and technology strategy. He is active on LinkedIn and medium.com where he writes about engineering management, software development & architecture, and related topics. He also speaks on podcasts and at meetups, and mentors and trains software professionals and other leaders. Currently, he is also a course instructor on engineering management in O’Reilly.