Templates as Inspiration for Engineering Managers and Software Engineers

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Resources for Engineering Managers and Software Engineers<br>A checklist for engineering managers, business case for a platform team, project lead expectations, performance reviews and others

Gergely Orosz<br>Aug 30, 2021<br>∙ Paid

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Below are research reports accompanying deepdives, plus documents and templates that hundreds of engineering managers and engineers have used with success at various companies. This page is being continuously updated and includes:<br>Deepdive reports . Going beyond the content shared in the deepdive. MCP usage in the real world, GenZ at the workplace, Code freeze approaches, AI coding tools, and more.

Templates and resources for engineering managers. Checklists, narratives for business cases, promotion maps, and many more.

Hiring. Interview process templates.

Onboarding. Task list, email templates, checklists.

Performance reviews and promotions . Preparing for promotions, work log, self-review.

Engineering career. 10 bonus chapters from The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, writing goals, “wartime” vs “peacetime” differences.

For software engineers. Migration checklist, incident analysis template, project reporting template, and more.

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