Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Working with Your Manager

In this chapter we’ve looked at the skills you’ll need to work with individuals: strong communication and the ability to delegate. However, there’s one important individual that you probably didn’t have in your mind while reading. That individual is your manager.

For many, their manager is the person that tells them what to do and judges their performance. But the relationship can be so much more if you focus on developing it by using the techniques that you’ll learn in this section. You can make your time with your manager a part of the week that you value and that you look forward to.

Let’s have a look at some of the techniques that you can use.

Pull, Don’t Push

The most important piece of advice is that you should ...