The Engineering Executives Primer Impactful Technical Leadership 1st Edition Will Larson by Will Larson 9781098149482, 1098149483 instant download after payment.

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have a challenging learning curve, and many folks excitedly start their first executive role only to leave frustrated within the first 18 months.
 
In this book, author Will Larson shows you ways to obtain your first executive job and quickly ramp up to meet the challenges you may not have encountered in non-executive roles: measuring engineering for both engineers and the CEO, company-scoped headcount planning, communicating successfully across a growing organization, and figuring out what people actually mean when they keep asking for a "technology strategy."
 
This book explains how to:
    Get an engineering executive job, negotiate the contract, and onboard at your new company
    Run an engineering planning process and communicate effectively with the organization
    Direct the core meetings necessary to operate an effective engineering organization
    Hire, onboard, and run performance management
    Manage yourself and remain effective through many challenges
    Leave the job when the time is right
 
Will Larson was the chief technology officer at Calm and the author of An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer. He's also a prolific writer on his blog, Irrational Exuberance.