• Author: Sarah Drasner
  • Full Title: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
  • Tags: #Inbox #books

Highlights

  • Management is still related to the code, though. Unless our teams are set up well, have support, and have clear strategy, all the coding best practices and linters in the world won’t amount to real outcomes. (Location 99)
  • Chapter 1 Caring for Your Team (Location 111)
  • Leadership is challenging: where your work used to be about you and what value you brought to a team, your work is now about enabling everyone around you. (Location 115)
  • Engineering management requires that you understand power imbalances, people structures, and consider strategies that are outside one particular project. (Location 122)
  • “The fact that you’re worried that you’re not a good manager is a key part of being a good manager.” (Location 125)
  • Chapter 2 The Value of Values (Location 131)
  • People are not pure functions; they have all sorts of interesting side effects. (Location 133)
  • Values are the fundamental beliefs that guide us, motivate us, and drive our actions. (Location 142)
  • They help us determine what kind of person we want to be. (Location 144)
  • Values don’t offer something to fix, or an action to take; they provide us context so that we can be more understanding of what is happening and why. (Location 158)