Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

It Isn’t Just Humans…

Well, you’ve made it through a venerable feast of concepts and ideas that may cause some very frustrating days as a manager. But you’re well equipped to deal with those challenges.

Here’s what you’ve learned:

• That you will face scrutiny and judgment, and you will feel it toward others as well.

• That bad situations create wobble, and that the higher up in the org chart that they occur, the worse the effects on everyone else.

• That others may want you to apply the whip to make your team work harder and faster; however, you need to reframe that into the carrot that makes your team autonomously drive themselves forward.

• That we’re all subject to the Dunning-Kruger effect and impostor syndrome. You’ve learned how to spot it and ...