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Today, I will show you How you can Measure your Impact as an Engineering manager. This topic got 40% of the votes!! Don't forget to vote on a topic each week π₯³.
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How you can Measure your Impact is a topic taken from my course on Becoming an Engineering Manager. π
If you use the verified system that I'm going to share, you will dramatically improve your ability to gauge your performance, act on it before it's too late, and get a better hold of it.
You are expected to gauge that on your own. Hence, knowing what you should do to measure your impact is essential.
Let's go ahead and get into it.
We can divide and measure our impact using pillars. Here is a visual of it so you can start picturing it π,
There are 4 pillars πΏ on how you can measure your impact as an Engineering Manager. They are:
By building this system,
Let's break them down one by one,
How good you are as a manager depends on how your team performs under you. So let's cut to the chase.
This will help drive the impact you are having as well. π€
As an Engineering Manager, you need to create a strategy based on the goals of your org by defining a team's mandate, how you make decisions etc.
Finally, I'd like you to please monitor the alignment of your team's work with your strategy and the company's vision.
Are you growing folks, and as a result, they are getting promoted is a good sign of how people are growing. You don't want to promote people for the sake of promoting them. You want to set them up for success when they get promoted.
My rule of thumb π is to assess if they can meet expectations on the level they are at, and if they are already crushing a couple of crucial goals for the next level, then it might be time to promote them. π₯
If you are seeing your team grow and thrive, then you know your leadership positively impacts their personal and professional growth.
This is the Engineering in "Engineering Manager." π
If something worked well for your team, could you share your lessons and learnings with your org to showcase and grow your impact?
We tie a few metrics to each pillar π―, so you know how to assess your progress against each pillar. Finally, there is an exercise for you βοΈ to come up with metrics and compare that to what I share.
Every org is different, so I give you a system you use to measure effective metrics on a case-by-case basis.
My #1 goal with the course is to make the learning interactive π.
If you are serious about Engineering Leadership, I recommend joining the "Becoming an Engineering Manager" Course Updates waitlist. You'll receive periodic βbehind the scenesβ updates about the course, and there might even be some special bonus stuff later on. π
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