Leadership Principles for Software Engineers

Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). Learn real-world software engineering management skills to succeed and impress in your first (or next) management role at elite engineering organizations. NANCY WANG, Director of Engineering and General Manager of AWS Data Protection Services and Founder, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), shares with you the engineering skills cultivated at AMAZON (the #2-ranked company in the Fortune 500), with supplemental practices from GOOGLE and MICROSOFT. Develop the skills and mental models that the world's best engineering managers apply to attract and retain world-class engineering talent. Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their managers, including: * How to BECOME A MANAGER * Whether MANAGERS or INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS make more money * What is the difference between MANAGER EFFECTIVENESS and MANAGER QUALITY * How to HIRE YOUR TEAM * How to guide a team with TEAM GOALS

• Are you the next great engineering manager?
• What do some of the world's best software companies expect managers to do all day? What differentiates great managers from struggling ones? Is it possible to identify managers using only 2 rules and 2 forms of evaluation? Find out in this lesson!
• Hiring your team
• Hiring is the most important skill for software engineering managers to perfect. Despite that, what percentage of managers are unable to meet their hiring targets? And what can you do to meet and exceed your hiring targets? Find out in this lesson!
• Setting your team's goals
• What is a team goal? How many do you need? Should you use Amazon-style SMART goals or Google-style OKRs? Find out in this lesson!