From the course: Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager
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Skills and attributes you need as a manager
From the course: Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager
Skills and attributes you need as a manager
- You may already have some ideas about the duties an engineering manager might face in their day-to-day work. But then again, some of these might be new to you, so let's learn a little bit more about them together. As a manager, you're going to be sort of generally responsible for the work that's assigned to your team. Don't worry. This doesn't mean that you're expected to do all of the work that falls through the cracks, but you're going to need to check in on the status of tasks assigned and help make sure that they're being done. You'll also be responsible for making sure the work assigned to your team is reasonable, that it's well-scoped, and really, that it's possible for your team to accomplish. This is part of your larger duty to your team and to your reports to help them balance the demands of their work with their personal lives, a concept known as work/life balance. Building healthy work/life balance into your…
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