Startup Engineering Management, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Na, Piaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500621064 ISBN 13: 9781500621063

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

If you're currently an engineer and have been offered a management job at a startup, this book is for you! If you're an engineer wondering what your manager is supposed to do for you, this book is for you as well!

Drawing from the author's experience as an engineer and manager, this book explains:

1. When to consider doing management work.
2. How to put together a team.
3. What to consider when interacting with engineers.
4. How to hire top engineers for your startup.
5. How to pick engineering leaders.
6. How to define processes and a process cookbook.
7. When you don't need a process.
8. How to report to your managers.
9. How compensation systems and promotion systems work, and when they fail.
10. Foreword by Harper Reed.

This kind of books are nowhere to be found...as an engineer probing in the dark for "what's next" I have looked very hard for career guidance for the past few years, and yours are the only books to give enlightenment. --- Cindy Zhou

Whether experienced or aspiring, this book will be a great manual to help understand and be successful at this mysterious craft. --- Harper Reed, from the Foreword.

About this title

About the Author

Piaw Na has worked as an engineering manager at Mpath Interactive, Escalate Inc, and Mirapoint. At Google, he built the release engineering team, and was the tech lead for the hourly/daily crawl/indexing group. He also helped to scale the Munich engineering office.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1500621064
• ISBN 13: 9781500621063
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 100