Engineering Management: The Big Picture
Engineering management requires much more than just engineering knowledge. This course will teach you the basics of being an excellent engineering manager.
What you'll learn
Did you know that most people who begin their first day as a manager do so with zero hours of management training? In this course, Engineering Management: The Big Picture, you’ll gain a basic understanding of the breadth of the engineering manager role. First, you’ll explore your place in the org chart and how to relate to superiors and subordinates. Next, you’ll discover how to be an effective boss for programmers, designers, and other knowledge workers. Finally, you’ll learn how to build a healthy organizational culture that draws the best out of people. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a general understanding of how to function well as an engineering manager.
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About the author
Floyd is, through and through, a programmer at heart. He began programming at age 9 drawing pictures with the Logo programming language, and has been in love with programming ever since. His development background includes both native and web UIs, high-performance server logic, intricate multithreaded network I/O, and big data processing. Floyd has created software for many industries: precision agriculture, GIS, finance, commodities trading, oil & gas, digital imaging, document intelligence, an... more