Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

The Righteous Path

The problem with management, especially in the technology industry, is that many of us that become managers haven’t been planning to do so for our whole lives. The same can’t be said about creating software. Many of us tinkered with building websites, did online programming tutorials, or sketched out pictures of what we thought great software would look like way before we did formal education or started getting paid for it.

Often, we don’t learn about management until we enter industry and see other people doing it. We might not learn about it until we see that there’s an opening to run one of the teams at our company. Regrettably, sometimes that choice is forced upon us as the only way to progress our careers.

This means ...