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# Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Needs

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Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully. Going from engineer to manager doesn't have to be intimidating. Engineers can be managers, and fantastic ones at that. Cast aside the rhetoric and focus on practical, hands-on techniques and tools. You'll become an effective and supportive team leader that your staff will look up to. Start with your transition to being a manager and see how that compares to being an engineer. Learn how to better organize information, feel productive, and delegate, but not micromanage. Discover how to manage your own boss, hire and fire, do performance and salary reviews, and build a great team. You'll also learn the psychology: how to ship while keeping staff happy, coach and mentor, deal with deadline pressure, handle sensitive information, and navigate workplace politics. Consider your whole department. How can you work with other teams to ensure best practice? How do you help form guilds and committees and communicate effectively? How can you create career tracks for individual contributors and managers? How can you support flexible and remote working? How can you improve diversity in the industry through your own actions? This book will show you how. Great managers can make the world a better place. Join us.

Review: One of the best books on management - If you are new manager, already doing it for some time or even long time manager - take the book and read it. This is the book you can read chapter by chapter when needed. I found ir very helpful when I started and also found multiple times it very useful when was going through difficult situations. Book is very practical and with almost zero bullshit. Very recommended.
Review: A non-technical tutorial to managing software engineering efforts - Managing software engineering efforts is a difficult task. One needs a thorough knowledge of authoring software, which itself is a rare, time-consuming accomplishment. Almost all general managers do not have an in-depth knowledge of programming (though many assume they do!). A few of the best software developers are promoted into a managerial role and have to figure out what to do on the job. Much literature on general management topics exists, but few writings center on the notoriously fickle yet narrow job of writing code. James Sanier’s book attempts to provide one of the few guides in this domain. This book’s intended audience certainly lies on the side of those beginning with managerial tasks. In concept, it provides a comprehensive overview for the first year in the new role. Choosing to provide quick tutorials, it avoids going into details on specific topics. At times, it makes generalizations for the sake of simplicity and brevity, like when it describes simple career tracks. Those who already have advanced knowledge might find these simplifications a bit trite, but beginners will appreciate the sensitivity for orienting newbies. The book is relatively non-technical in that it fundamentally describes people-oriented tasks instead of, say, financial approaches that involve algorithms. It tends to divide programmers into sociological categories, like a cathedral constructor versus a bazaar browser. Again, these distinctions help, especially at the beginning, but they don’t provide a ton of nuance. The writing style is accessible to general readers, and endnotes are provided for further research. Not many IT-specific terms are used, but prior exposure to a team that produces software is assumed. I took away a couple of new concepts, such as a mentorship matrix and the Dunning-Kruger effect, but I will explore these in more detail through other writings since only overviews were provided here. This approach fits very much in line with what I’ve come to expect from the Pragmatic Programmer series. It helpfully fills a niche for people who want a non-theoretical approach to learning programming, a unique approach that’s both useful and needed.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,006,858 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #227 in Technical Project Management (Books) #291 in Business Project Management (Books) #6,932 in Leadership & Motivation |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 337 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best books on management
*by I***S on January 21, 2024*

If you are new manager, already doing it for some time or even long time manager - take the book and read it. This is the book you can read chapter by chapter when needed. I found ir very helpful when I started and also found multiple times it very useful when was going through difficult situations. Book is very practical and with almost zero bullshit. Very recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A non-technical tutorial to managing software engineering efforts
*by S***N on January 5, 2024*

Managing software engineering efforts is a difficult task. One needs a thorough knowledge of authoring software, which itself is a rare, time-consuming accomplishment. Almost all general managers do not have an in-depth knowledge of programming (though many assume they do!). A few of the best software developers are promoted into a managerial role and have to figure out what to do on the job. Much literature on general management topics exists, but few writings center on the notoriously fickle yet narrow job of writing code. James Sanier’s book attempts to provide one of the few guides in this domain. This book’s intended audience certainly lies on the side of those beginning with managerial tasks. In concept, it provides a comprehensive overview for the first year in the new role. Choosing to provide quick tutorials, it avoids going into details on specific topics. At times, it makes generalizations for the sake of simplicity and brevity, like when it describes simple career tracks. Those who already have advanced knowledge might find these simplifications a bit trite, but beginners will appreciate the sensitivity for orienting newbies. The book is relatively non-technical in that it fundamentally describes people-oriented tasks instead of, say, financial approaches that involve algorithms. It tends to divide programmers into sociological categories, like a cathedral constructor versus a bazaar browser. Again, these distinctions help, especially at the beginning, but they don’t provide a ton of nuance. The writing style is accessible to general readers, and endnotes are provided for further research. Not many IT-specific terms are used, but prior exposure to a team that produces software is assumed. I took away a couple of new concepts, such as a mentorship matrix and the Dunning-Kruger effect, but I will explore these in more detail through other writings since only overviews were provided here. This approach fits very much in line with what I’ve come to expect from the Pragmatic Programmer series. It helpfully fills a niche for people who want a non-theoretical approach to learning programming, a unique approach that’s both useful and needed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read
*by D***T on October 28, 2023*

This book is a fountain of knowledge. I’ve experienced many things in book during my career but never had the ability to put them into context. I’ve also learned a lot of new things that I’m excited to try out. The content here is valuable to managers regardless of industry. The strategies discussed are concrete and applicable.

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