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Engineering Manager's Handbook

You're reading from  Engineering Manager's Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235356
Pages 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Morgan Evans Morgan Evans
Profile icon Morgan Evans

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Case for Engineering Management
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Engineering Management 3. Chapter 2: Engineering Leadership Styles 4. Chapter 3: Common Failure Modes for New Engineering Managers 5. Part 2: Engineering
6. Chapter 4: Leading Architecture 7. Chapter 5: Project Planning and Delivery 8. Chapter 6: Supporting Production Systems 9. Part 3: Managing
10. Chapter 7: Working Cross-Functionally 11. Chapter 8: Communicating with Authority 12. Chapter 9: Assessing and Improving Team Performance 13. Chapter 10: Fostering Accountability 14. Chapter 11: Managing Risk 15. Part 4: Transitioning
16. Chapter 12: Resilient Leadership 17. Chapter 13: Scaling Your Team 18. Chapter 14: Changing Priorities, Company Pivots, and Reorgs 19. Part 5: Long-Term Strategies
20. Chapter 15: Retaining Talent 21. Chapter 16: Team Design and More 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the foundations of engineering team design and how to adjust your team to suit your needs:

  • Engineering team design refers to how you structure your engineering team, its roles, and how those roles operate
  • The three primary engineering team structures are functionally aligned, product aligned, and matrixed:
    • Functionally aligned teams are built around a particular skill area with an engineering manager who is knowledgeable in that skill
    • Product aligned teams are organized according to product areas rather than functional skills
    • Matrixed teams incorporate both functional and product structures
  • Communities of practice help to maintain skill-based conventions and communication in product aligned organizations
  • Team characteristics to consider in team design include organizational tenure and personality traits:
    • Teams with a mix of different tenures help each other to learn about the organization and new approaches
    • Belbin’s personality...
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