- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Management 101
- 2. Mentoring
- 3. Tech Lead
- 4. Managing People
- Starting a New Reporting Relationship Off Right
- Communicating with Your Team
- Different 1-1 Styles
- Good Manager, Bad Manager: Micromanager, Delegator
- Practical Advice for Delegating Effectively
- Use the Team’s Goals to Understand Which Details You Should Dig Into
- Gather Information from the Systems Before Going to the People
- Adjust Your Focus Depending on the Stage of Projects
- Establish Standards for Code and Systems
- Treat the Open Sharing of Information, Good or Bad, in a Neutral to Positive Way
- Creating a Culture of Continuous Feedback
- Performance Reviews
- Cultivating Careers
- Challenging Situations: Firing Underperformers
- Assessing Your Own Experience
- 5. Managing a Team
- 6. Managing Multiple Teams
- Managing Your Time: What’s Important, Anyway?
- Decisions and Delegation
- Challenging Situations: Strategies for Saying No
- Technical Elements Beyond Code
- Measuring the Health of Your Development Team
- Good Manager, Bad Manager: Us Versus Them, Team Player
- The Virtues of Laziness and Impatience
- Assessing Your Own Experience
- 7. Managing Managers
- Skip-Level Meetings
- Manager Accountability
- Good Manager, Bad Manager: The People Pleaser
- Managing New Managers
- Managing Experienced Managers
- Hiring Managers
- Debugging Dysfunctional Organizations
- Setting Expectations and Delivering on Schedule
- Challenging Situations: Roadmap Uncertainty
- Staying Technically Relevant
- Assessing Your Own Experience
- 8. The Big Leagues
- Models for Thinking About Tech Senior Leadership
- What’s a VP of Engineering?
- What’s a CTO?
- Changing Priorities
- Setting the Strategy
- Challenging Situations: Delivering Bad News
- Senior Peers in Other Functions
- The Echo
- Ruling with Fear, Guiding with Trust
- True North
- Recommended Reading
- Assessing Your Own Experience
- 9. Bootstrapping Culture
- 10. Conclusion
- Index
Colophon
The image on the cover of The Manager’s Path is an illustration by Edie Freedman and Michael Oréal.
The cover fonts are URW Typewriter and Guardian Sans. The text font is Adobe Minion Pro; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Dalton Maag’s Ubuntu Mono.
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