The Managers Path

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Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it Tech companies in general lack the experience, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well And the handful of books that share tips and tricks of engineering management don t explain how to supervise employees in the face of growth and change.In this book, author Camille Fournier takes you through the stages of technical management, from mentoring interns to working with the senior staff You ll get actionable advice for approaching various obstacles in your path, whether you re a new manager, a mentor, or a experienced leader looking for fresh advice Pick up this book and learn how to become a better manager and leader in your organization Discover how to manage small teams and large multi level teams Understand how to build and bootstrap a unifying culture in teams Deal with people problems and learn how to mentor other managers and new leaders Learn how to manage yourself avoid common pitfalls that challenge many leaders Obtain several practices that you can incorporate and practice along the way Free Read Kindle ePUB The Managers Path by Camille Fournier – kino-fada.fr This book does a good job of walking you through the typical career path of a software engineer, from individual contributor all the way up to senior executive It s a great read for all programmers and not just managers In fact, if you re still early in your career, you ll find this book especially valuable, as it s a great outline of what to expect later in your career, and some of the things you can do to accelerate your growth A few of my favorite insights from the book As you move from This book does a good job of walking you through the ...Having grown from being an engineer to manager to startup founder, this is probably the best book I ve read on the topic of technical leadership and management, and one I wish I d had available to me a decade ago All those hard lessons I got from screwing up and learning from my mistakes could have been skipped if Camille s book had existed then Though that dreaded word manager is in the title, it is not purely valuable to those who have a strong desire to engage in people management Part of Having grown from being an engineer to manager to startup founder, this is probably the best book I ve read on the topic of technical leadership and management, and one I wish I d had available to me a decade ago All those hard lessons I got from screwing up...The best book about management in software development I have ever read A must read for managers and highly recommended even for individual contributors It has helped me enormouslyI m somewhere between individual contributor and management in my career right now mentoring and, at times, technical lead, so this book was of interest to me I hate to say that this book was disappointing because I enjoy following the author on Twitter and have enjoyed lots of her clear, well written blog posts about management and technical strategy, particularly ones like how do individual contributors get stuck I think this book essentially tried to stretch those blog posts into an en I m somewhere between individual contributor and management in my career right now mentoring and, at times, technical lead, so this book was of interest to me I hate to say that this book was disappointing because I enjoy following the author on Twitter and have enjoyed lots of her clear, well written blog posts about management and technical strategy, particularly ones like how do individual...I recommend this book to anyone involved with software engineering management, from individual contributors willing or not to a managing career move to senior managers.It gives a clear view and show countless real life situtations, from first level to CTO, with a perspective of who had experiencied all of it.Whether or not you are looking for a management career, we as software engineers are going to live most if not all of the...This was my first career book and it was better than I expected This is great even for non managers if you happen to land a copy of this because of the chapters devoted to being a great IC and Tech Lead It has concise advice supplemented by stories about different stages of an engi...If I could give this book 6 stars, I would I rarely buy books, but I bought this one and am glad I did The book is structured very well, following the career path of a technical employee from being an individual engineer all the way to the upper levels of senior technical management I found it useful in understanding what the the management job is like at various stages of a typical career and what makes a good manager at each level the answer, as you might expect, varies and changes with e If I could give this book 6 stars, I would I rarely buy books, but I bought this one and am glad I did The book is structured very well, following the career path of a technical employee from being an individual engineer all the way to the upper levels of senior technical management I found it useful in understa...Camille s book on tech management is spot on, starts pointing out the basics of management, how tech management differs from management in other fields and the many levels you can find yourself tech lead, manager, engineering manager, VP and CTO and stuff you should worry about at all these levels.She covers day to day work, stuff you will most likely face, problems along the road, ways to per...Camille takes you through an exercise in empathy, clarification and understanding of what technical management entails As a former technical co founder and a current manager, this book has been instrumental in understanding the expectations and challen...Great read Easy to get into and full of pragmatic advice and relatable challenges I loved the actionable and immediate nature of the things Camille talked about I found myself highlighting passages and jotting down notes throughout and ...

The Managers Path
  • 03 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 226 pages
  • 1491973897
  • Camille Fournier
  • The Managers Path