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Dec 16, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
As an engineering manager, you should spend your time with four main areas: people, project, product, and technology. 🧵

#Engineering #Leadership
Most of your time will be used setting #people to success by training, listening, opening opportunities, recruiting, hiring, advocating, and delivering actionable, timely, and candid feedback.
The outcome your #team produces in #projects is the value they offer to your company, and your role letting engineers to make decisions with autonomy but in an informed fashion. You are the link between your team’s work and your org’s #strategy.
Working with cross functional partners is fundamental to identify a good strategic plan to achieve your organization’s mission. Your duty is to help your team to create a tactical and technical plan that aligns to the #product objectives and #strategy. This is #roadmapping.
Most importantly, you are not the person making #technical decisions. You have a team of experts to assist you, so you can focus where they need your help, unblocking their way and paving the path ahead, negotiating scope and identifying potential collaboration points and deps.
In summary, as a manager, you should focus in empowering your team to make wise and informed decisions and move things out of their way, opening opportunities for them to create bigger impact to your company.
It is important to note you need to understand your team’s work to be useful. Otherwise you’re just being an information broker from senior leadership and executive staff. It is important to stay technical.

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