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Book Description

An explicit focus on people management is vital to company success, particularly at fast-growing companies. With proper training and a healthy culture, people managers can help teams scale by maintaining morale, ensuring alignment between work assignments and company goals, resolving disputes, and preparing the engineering team for the next phases of growth.

Table of Contents

  1. People Management: Getting Started
    1. Understanding People Management
      1. From Ad Hoc to Formal
      2. When to Formalize People Management
      3. Managing People Without Managers
    2. Introducing Formal People Management to a Team
      1. Know What You Want to Do and Prepare Your Team
      2. Communicate and Deploy the Plan
    3. Developing New Managers
      1. Identifying Management Potential
      2. Surviving the Management Transition
      3. Performance Assessment and the Go/No-Go Decision
    4. Hiring Managers Externally
      1. Interviewing Managers
      2. Making a Hiring Decision
      3. On-Boarding Managers
    5. Conclusion
    6. Additional Resources