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LeadingIn Tech #5: Managing your upstream communication

Photo by Brandon on Unsplash Hi there! Welcome to the new edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. As an Engineering Manager one of my biggest challenges as a technology leader is when I need to communicate upwards in the command chain. It is a lot easier for me to communicate with technical peers than to stakeholders up in the management chain.

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LeadingIn Tech #5: Managing your upstream communication

LeadingIn.Tech #2: What does an Engineering Manager do anyway?

Hi there! Welcome to the second edition of the LeadingIn.Tech newsletter. On this edition I'll give a step back and share to you as part of the toolkit For Engineering Managers my current understanding of what do they generally do. When learning about The role.

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LeadingIn.Tech #2: What does an Engineering Manager do anyway?

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Type	Name	Link
Article	Responsibility, Accountability, Ownership: Definitions, Distinctions, and How They Add Up to a Healthy Team — Signal Key	www.signalkey.com
Book	📖 The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson	www.goodreads.com
Article	📄 Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness	kind.engineering
Article	📄 PM & EM: Rules of Engagement \| Twilio Segment Blog	segment.com
Newsletter	✉️ The Engineering Manager \| James Stanier \| Substack	theengineeringmanager.substack.com
Article	📄 Always be leaving by Ángel Cereijo	amcereijo.medium.com
Podcast	🎧 Developing Leadership - The Podcast for Engineering Leaders	www.developingleadership.co
Article	📄 Why our engineering leaders focus on product over process	medium.com
Article	📄 Don't make yourself redundant - The Engineering Manager	www.theengineeringmanager.com
Article	📄 This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers \| First Round Review	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 How Data Can Make Better Managers	hbr.org
Podcast	🎧 Interview with David Cancel, CEO of Drift \| Supermanagers Podcast	fellow.app
Podcast	🎧 The Art of Leadership - Interview with Michael Lopp \| Supermanagers	fellow.app
Book	📖 The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp	www.goodreads.com
Article	📄 Google Tried to Prove Managers Don't Matter. Instead, It Discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones \| Inc.com	www.inc.com
Article	📄 What does my engineering manager do all day? \| by Joon Park	parkjoon.medium.com
Article	📄 How Many People Can Someone Lead?	www.patkua.com
Article	📄 The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Crafting a Personal Brand that Stands Out From the Crowd	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 The eight flavors of engineering management \| LeadDev	leaddev.com
Article	📄 How you're causing low employee morale at your company	getlighthouse.com
Article	📄 The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers 👑 - Refactoring	refactoring.fm
Article	📄 The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways	hbr.org
Article	📄 The importance of effective status reports \| LeadDev	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Managing up - HBR	hbr.org
Article	📄 What Everyone Should Know About Managing Up	hbr.org
Article	📄 How to Manage Up at Work - WSJ	www.wsj.com
Article	📄 The science of managing up \| Slack	slack.com
Article	📄 A Tactical Guide to Managing Up: 30 Tips from the Smartest People We Know \| First Round Review	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 9 Expert Tips for Managing Up at Work from Real Leaders	getlighthouse.com
Article	📄 Is managing up a bad thing? \| Lara Hogan	larahogan.me
Article	📄 7 Steps to Manage Up Effectively at Work \| Fellow.app	fellow.app
Article	📄 Why Managing Up Is A Skill Set You Need	www.forbes.com
Article	📄 Managing up is something all managers need to master \| Officevibe	officevibe.com
Article	📄 3 problems with managing up	www.fastcompany.com
Article	📄 Making the case to decision makers: the presentation format to follow	www.mynameisjehad.com
Book	📖 The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek \| Simon Sinek	simonsinek.com
Book	📖 Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek	www.goodreads.com
Article	📄 Polishing Product Management Skills	www.patkua.com
Article	📄 Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Resilient Management, An Excerpt – A List Apart	alistapart.com
Article	📄 Book Summary: 'Resilient Management' by Lara Hogan \| Pat Hermens	hermens.com.au
Book	📖 Resilient Management by Lara Hogan	www.goodreads.com
Article	📄 Why this manager put workers in charge of their own raises, career development, and reviews	www.fastcompany.com
Article	📄 Creating Connections. The subtle leadership skill that makes… \| by Scott Mabry \| Nov, 2020 \| Medium	scottamabry.medium.com
Article	📄 Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication \| SoundCloud Backstage Blog	developers.soundcloud.com
Podcast	🎧 Supermanagers Podcast by Fellow.app	fellow.app
Article	📄 How 2020 has shaped you as an engineering leader \| LeadDev	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Management Debt - Andreessen Horowitz	a16z.com
Article	📄 Compassionate Leadership Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient	hbr.org
Podcast	🎧 Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership	www.infoq.com
Article	📄 12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies \| Hacker Noon	hackernoon.com
Toolkit	🧰 The Manager's Handbook	themanagershandbook.com
Book	📖 Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier	www.goodreads.com
Blog	📄 Management 101 - The Engineering Manager	www.theengineeringmanager.com
Article	📄 A step-by-step guide to becoming a better engineering manager	thenextweb.com
Article	📄 How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com	devops.com
Article	📄 Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead - The Imperfect Manager	xala3pa.github.io
Article	📄 What is an Engineering Manager? – Amy Phillips	amyjph.com
Article	📄 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes	www.patkua.com
Book	📖 El Manual del Manager	www.goodreads.com
Podcast	🎧 94. Engineering Management - Podcasts \| Heroku	www.heroku.com
Podcast	🎧 NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management"	twitter.com
Article	📄 The Engineer/Manager Pendulum	charity.wtf
Article	📄 Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder	charity.wtf
Article	📄 Being an Engineering Manager	medium.com
Article	📄 “Software Roles and Titles” by Eric Elliott	link.medium.com
Video	🎬 On Managing Technical Teams as a First-Time Manager: CTO, Engineering, Management \| Y Combinator	www.ycombinator.com
Article	📄 Maker vs manager: How to connect your schedule to your goals	blog.rescuetime.com
Article	📄 This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like \| Inc.com	www.inc.com
Book	📖 Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek \| Goodreads	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek \| Goodreads	www.goodreads.com
Article	📄 Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill \| First Round Review	firstround.com
Book	📖 Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet \| Goodreads	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo \| Goodreads	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins	www.goodreads.com
Article	📄 Nailing your first months as a new Engineering Manager \| Hacker Noon	hackernoon.com
Article	📄 Should You Choose a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager Role?	medium.com
Article	📄 How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com	devops.com
Article	📄 What is an Engineering Manager? by Michelle Kung	aws.amazon.com
Article	📄 Should Engineering Managers Write Code? \| Inside Intercom	www.intercom.com

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