What is expected of a engineering manager?

Re:What is expected of a engineering manager? by lacker on Friday October 16, 2020 @12:24PM (#24802329)

Your company expects that you follow along the deliveries, setting quality standards, making sure the team has the support they need and upper management the feedback they need.

This part seemed a little weakly worded to me. An engineering manager should make sure their team gets things done. It isn't enough to "follow along the deliveries".

Sometimes that is things like setting standards and communicating. But it's also things like firing underperformers and hiring for open headcount. It's making sure you have enough budget and support from other teams to get the job done. Whatever it takes. It isn't enough to say "Well, communication was great, I gave the team a lot of support, but we didn't make very much progress."

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Re:What is expected of a engineering manager? by triztian on Friday October 16, 2020 @12:57PM (#24802673)

I agree with your points.

I think it's the wording like you mention, in Lat-Am countries it is common to say "darle seguimiento a las entregas" or "rastrear entrega" as a way to signal that the person is responsible of making sure that things workout well including handling or helping out with any technical or communication roadblocks for the team.

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