The Complete Engineering Manager - by Ananth Ramachandran (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

Business priorities are changing at a much faster pace than ever before with new technologies being introduced and adopted regularly. This book will help managers adopt modern practices to meet this moment and aid them in helping engineering teams succeed. The Complete Engineering Manager will leave you with a broader perspective and deeper skill set to apply to engineering management.

What You Will Learn

• Employ the SELF framework for self-management and learn to build trust with team members
• Manage performance and craft individualized growth plans for employee success
• Evolve your team's development, delivery, and technical processes to improve their efficiency
• Drive impact for your organization through prioritization, strategy and value delivery
• Build a high-performing engineering team with a strong and positive culture

Who This Book is For

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

From the Back Cover

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. Business priorities are changing at a much faster pace than ever before with new technologies being introduced and adopted regularly. This book will help managers adopt modern practices to meet this moment and aid them in helping engineering teams succeed.

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

You will:

- Employ the SELF framework for self-management and learn to build trust with team members- Manage performance and craft individualized growth plans for employee success- Evolve your team's development, delivery, and technical processes to improve their efficiency- Drive impact for your organization through prioritization, strategy and value delivery- Adopt modern engineering management practices such as utilizing AI

About the Author

Ananth Ramachandran is a seasoned engineering leader who has experience in building happy, productive and high-performing engineering teams. He started his career in a Fortune 500 company as a software engineer and later found his passion in startups and building engineering teams from the ground up. He's passionate about scaling up people, product and technology strategy and ultimately contributing to an organization's success.

He runs a newsletter for Engineering Managers, techmanagerguide.substack.com, where he writes about day-to-day experiences, challenges, and modern engineering management practices and techniques. He speaks on podcasts and at meetups, and mentors and trains software professionals and aspiring leaders.