Description

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​Empower yourself with the knowledge and confidence necessary to elevate your leadership skills in the dynamic world of engineering. This book is an indispensable guide designed for software engineering leaders, and individual contributors looking to exert greater influence within their teams.

Drawing on more than 15 years of industry experience, author Raphael Neves provides a wealth of practical wisdom and strategies designed to navigate the unique leadership challenges within the fast-paced, ever-evolving tech world. Initial chapters deftly explore the foundational principles of successful leadership, shedding light on the range of leadership styles available, with special emphasis placed on situational leadership. Special attention is paid to the unique nuances of remote and hybrid teams, underscoring strategies for building trust, resolving conflicts, and promoting a healthy work-life balance.

You're then ushered through effective mechanisms that foster growthand innovation. The book encourages an adaptive mindset, promotes alignment of team growth with broader organizational goals, and provides tools for successfully navigating change management. You'll find actionable advice on managing expectations, aligning team goals with organizational objectives, building stakeholder relationships, and advocating for team needs while maintaining alignment with company values.

The Engineering Leadership Playbook elucidates the process of crafting SMART goals, balancing qualitative and quantitative measurements, and choosing appropriate metrics at various levels: individual, team, product, and business.

What You'll Learn

• Study different leadership styles and how to switch their approaches depending on circumstances
• Review critical communication skills, especially in technical fields
• Create IDPs for team members, especially senior engineers and leaders

Who This Book Is For

Current engineering leaders, aspiring engineering leaders, senior engineers, HR professionals and recruiters, and professionals in related fields

About the Author

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As a passionate and customer-centric engineering leader, Raphael Neves excels at fostering collaboration between engineering and cross-functional teams to create innovative and value-driven products. He embraces that people are the main motto for driving any business to success and directly contributes to making engineering leaders less tech-centric and more human-oriented. With extensive experience across various industries, he brings to his debut book, the secret ingredients to develop a strong leadership character, build high-performing teams, drive continuous improvement, create a rock-solid engineering culture, and align engineering efforts with business objectives. Raphael dedicated the last nine years of his professional experience to leadership roles, and he is currently working as a Director of Engineering at Zendesk and previously worked as Director of Engineering at Tymeshift. He grows teams, develops people, and prioritizes a customer-centric and human-oriented culture.