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The Manager’s Path
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The Manager’s Path

A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Camille Fournier
O'Reilly, 2017

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Camille Fournier, the managing director and head of platform engineering at Two Sigma, and a former tech vice president at Goldman Sachs and CTO at Rent the Runway, explains how quality management drives sound engineering, workplace harmony and future profits. She refutes the widely held idea among software engineers that management is a “soft” skill that requires less willpower than engineering. Fournier’s real-life anecdotes and examples illustrate her argument that good management matters in every field. She offers interesting surprises and calm guidance for software engineers looking to move into management and for those promoted into management against their better judgment. getAbstract recommends her insights as a useful career guide for engineering tech leads and, in particular, software engineering managers.

Take-Aways

  • Many software engineers don’t like managing and prefer to write code.
  • Besides relying on technical skills, software engineering managers must devote time to learning new skills, including how to direct people and projects.
  • Good managers establish what they expect from the people they lead and make sure their teams deliver according to spec and on time.

About the Author

Camille Fournier, the managing director and head of platform engineering at Two Sigma, is the former CTO of Rent the Runway and a former VP of technology at Goldman Sachs. A frequent public speaker, she maintains the Apache ZooKeeper open source project, writes the Ask the CTO column for O’Reilly Media, and writes the blog Elided Branches for software engineers. 

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