Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Time to Tackle the Big Issues

So there you have it: you now have the tools and the motivation to define career progression for you, your team, and maybe even the whole department. If nothing like this exists at your company, then I encourage you to start this movement at your workplace. You should start by defining a progression framework with your team as an exercise to define how they see their roles and your own role. Then you can begin to invite others to see what you’ve been working on and see whether the network effect can bring about real change.

Career progression frameworks lower the barrier to enabling career progression discussions. They bring specificity to the skills and competencies that ICs and managers should be aiming toward, ...