Course details
Engineering Manager
Learn what an engineering manager actually does once most of the coding belongs to someone else. You follow Meera, newly promoted to lead the checkout team at an online grocery app, through one-on-ones, feedback, planning, incidents, hiring and stakeholder updates.
Course curriculum
The Role3 lessons
See what an engineering manager is responsible for across people, product and process, how the role differs from a tech lead and an individual contributor, and how to hand work off so you stop being the bottleneck.
People and One-on-Ones5 lessons
Run one-on-ones that surface real problems, give feedback people can use, grow people through mentoring, coaching and career plans, write fair reviews, and settle conflict without picking favourites.
Delivery4 lessons
Plan sprints around real capacity and one goal, estimate in honest ranges, trade scope instead of stacking it, and catch risks and cross-team dependencies before they turn into surprises.
Technical Ownership4 lessons
Make technical debt visible and repay it steadily, make sure big decisions are weighed and written down, run calm incidents, and learn from failures with blameless postmortems.
Team Health and Hiring3 lessons
Design a fair hiring loop from a scorecard, build motivation from purpose, ownership and progress, and spot and prevent burnout by fixing the load rather than the person.
Stakeholders3 lessons
Map who your team's work affects and earn their trust early, write status updates a busy reader can act on in a minute, and work with product and design as one team.