97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know - by Camille Fournier (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.

Managing people is hard, and the industry as a whole is bad at it. Many managers lack the experience, training, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. From mentoring interns to working in senior management, this book will take you through the stages of management and provide actionable advice on how to approach the obstacles you'll encounter as a technical manager.

A few of the 97 things you should know:

• "Three Ways to Be the Manager Your Report Needs" by Duretti Hirpa
• "The First Two Questions to Ask When Your Team Is Struggling" by Cate Huston
• "Fire Them!" by Mike Fisher
• "The 5 Whys of Organizational Design" by Kellan Elliott-McCrea
• "Career Conversations" by Raquel Vélez
• "Using 6-Page Documents to Close Decisions" by Ian Nowland
• "Ground Rules in Meetings" by Lara Hogan

About the Author

Camille is an engineering executive and author of The Manager's Path (O'Reilly) as well as the editor of the collection, 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know. She is a member of the engineering leadership team at Two Sigma, overseeing the firm's platform engineering organization, and is the former CTO of Rent the Runway. Her career includes numerous technology industry contributions: work on open source software including Apache ZooKeeper, membership on the board of the ACM Queue, and serving on the founding technical oversight committee for the Cloud Native Compute Foundation. She resides in New York City with her husband and two children.