Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

It’s Time to Decompress

We’ve had a trio of heavy chapters. We’ve explored a myriad of ways that work can be stressful: humans can be hard, and so can the work itself. Then, in this chapter we’ve covered:

• Spies and gatekeepers. You’ve learned that you need to be a gatekeeper, rather than a spy, even though that means less about jumping from planes and more about keeping others informed with what they need to know, when they need to know it.

• How to share just enough information. You learned how to categorize information and how to share just enough with others so that you respectfully keep them informed while keeping the confidential information confidential.

• Workplace politics. We looked at the ways in which you can use politics for the good ...