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Leadership Principles for Software Engineers (Coursera)

Offered by Advancing Women in Tech,

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.

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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

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Are you the next great engineering manager?
What do some of the world's best software companies expect managers to do all day? How do they differentiate 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!

WEEK 2
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!

WEEK 3
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!

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