The Engineering Executive's Primer
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Impactful Technical Leadership
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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."
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1. Getting the Job
2. Your First 90 Days
3. Writing Your Engineering Strategy
4. How to Plan
5. Creating Useful Organizational Values
6. Measuring Engineering Organizations
7. Participating in Mergers and Acquisitions
8. Developing Leadership Styles
9. Managing Your Priorities and Energy
10. Meetings for an Effective Engineering Organization
11. Internal Communications
12. Building Personal and Organizational Prestige
13. Working with Your CEO, Peers, and Engineering
14. Gelling Your Engineering Leadership Team
15. Building Your Network
16. Onboarding Peer Executives
17. Inspected Trust
18. Calibrating Your Standards
19. How to Run Engineering Processes
20. Hiring
21. Engineering Onboarding
22. Performance and Compensation
23. Using Cultural Survey Data
24. Leaving the Job
Closing
A. Additional Resources
B. Interviewing Engineering Executives
C. Reading a Profit & Loss Statement
D. Starting Engineering Hubs
E. Magnitudes of Exploration