The Complete Engineering Manager

To build, lead and sustain the best engineering team ever, you need to be the best manager ever!

This book equips you to become the complete and pragmatic engineering leader your team needs—one who inspires, drives outcomes, and creates a high-performing culture.

What You Will Learn

• Settle into your role as an Engineering Manager by identifying your core values, leadership style, and key traits for success—all wrapped into the Engineering Manager's Starter Kit
• 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

• If you are a software engineer transitioning into management, this book will help you become the engineering manager every team needs.
• If you're already an engineering manager, you'll find modern, pragmatic approaches to the challenges you face in your teams daily, along with strategies to build a high-performing engineering team.
• ​And if you love reading about management, personal development, organizational leadership, and engineering team dynamics to gain a fresh perspective, this book is for you!

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.