Project delivery
In project build phases, an engineering manager’s focus is on maximizing the healthy productivity of their engineering team. In other words, you want to help the team move quickly while taking action to prevent burnout. In this section, we will learn these two aspects of project delivery: techniques for moving quickly and techniques for avoiding burnout. These goals can share the same solutions or complement each other, so they are interleaved through the following delivery topics: project kick-off, good user stories, and removing friction.
Project kick-off
The project kick-off is how you initiate your project. It is often a meeting or a series of activities to announce and begin work on a new project. For engineering managers, project kick-off is an opportunity to set up the project for success by aligning the team and creating some excitement about the goals.
Whether or not you are tasked with organizing the kick-off activities yourself, your aim...
