The Complete Engineering Manager: Build High-Performing Engineering Teams for Your Organization

© Ananth Ramachandran 2024

A. RamachandranThe Complete Engineering Managerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0267-6_6

6. Working with Your Manager

Ananth Ramachandran¹  

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Berlin, Germany

 

Everyone is living in their own world, which is part of someone else’s world.

Your world as an engineering manager (Figure 6-1) consists of worlds of your direct reports, your success, and your worry. Cross-functional experts from the product, design, and data departments are part of your world too as you work together as one team closely on a day-to-day basis.

Rarely can a team deliver value on their own without coordinating with peer teams within the same domain or a business unit—they play a part in your world too. However, the coordination has been considerably ...