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The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership

By Will Larson

Book information

Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Year
2024
ISBN
9781098149482
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3771633 bytes)
Pages
361\0
Topic
Business
Orientation
landscape
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-07 22:15:27

Description

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have a challenging learning curve, and many folks excitedly start their first executive role only to leave frustrated within the first 18 months. In this book, author Will Larson shows you ways to obtain your first executive job and quickly ramp up to meet the challenges you may not have encountered in non-executive roles: measuring engineering for both engineers and the CEO, company-scoped headcount planning, communicating successfully across a growing organization, and figuring out what people actually mean when they keep asking for a "technology strategy." This book explains how to: Get an engineering executive job, negotiate the contract, and onboard at your new companyRun an engineering planning...

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