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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. Coach engineers.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Mantle and Ron Lichty propose to make programmers and software teams manageable.

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Managing engineering managers is not all just rainbows and unicorns, right?

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. One resource that they provide to all employees is Joyable , a digital therapy solution that offers access to personal coaches. It’s very people-centric.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. Katie: In doing that, you role model to other leaders in the organization and people that have the sort of manager job description, that’s the behavior you want to see. We have Engineers 1, 2, 3. This level we call Staff Engineer.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

Run concurrently with DeveloperWeek 2019 , DevExec World is a conference organized specifically for tech executives, engineering managers, and lead developers. Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development. Strata Data Conference.