Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

To the Land of Unicorns

In this chapter you’ve learned about some of the challenges facing our industry and what you, as a manager, can do about them.

Here’s what we’ve covered:

• The pressing issue of diversity in the technology industry. We’ve looked at what it is, why it’s critically important, and what you can do to begin tackling the problem.

• Flexible and remote working, which we’ll only see more of in the future. We’ve learned some ways in which you can better support remote workers and be ready for the shift that is already underway.

• The importance of work-life balance, or in short, how to not let work take over your or your team’s lives. As a manager and leader you need to enforce this via your own actions rather than by rules.

• Lastly, ...