Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Now Let’s Organize Our Careers

You’ve learned a whole bunch of techniques for good housekeeping. Most of these involve some lightweight process, some documentation, and some communication via broadcast or multicast.

Practicing these techniques within your team can not only improve how your team works and increase your effectiveness as a manager; it will also give you opportunities to spread your influence to others in the department by sharing the knowledge and practices in this chapter.

Here’s what we covered:

• We looked at the many different forms of communication within the department and how you need to create structures in which to best harness these lines of communication. This is a pressing issue if we consider Conway’s Law, which states ...