Recommended Engineering Management Books

 By Caitie McCaffrey - 2020-12-28

Description

Over the past 3.5 years my career has grown and transformed from Individual Contributor (IC) to an Engineering Manager of multiple teams, and all the roles in between as I built the Azure Sphere Se…

Summary

  • Over the past 3.5 years my career has grown and transformed from Individual Contributor (IC) to an Engineering Manager of multiple teams, and all the roles in between as I built the Azure Sphere Security Services (AS3) Team from 2 people to 20 people.
  • Thanks for the Feedback is framed as a resource for receiving and processing the multitudes of feedback you receive.
  • Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz The book starts off acknowledging a problem with most management books “they attempt to provide a recipe for challenges that have no recipes.
  • Chapter 5, which bears this quote as a title goes into some of the challenges that can arise when setting out with this mission and how to overcome them, like hiring, training, and management debt.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.41)
  2. Backend (0.08)
  3. UX (0.06)

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