Engineering Manager Roadmap

This is an intent to contribute with people interested to become an engineering manager or engineering managers curios in their professional career growth.

First Proposal

1. Self Development
   • Self-Awareness
   • Soft Skill.
2. Management
   • Type of leadership (10)
   • Forming teams.
   • Managing remote teams.
   • Management 3.0
   • Lean Management.
3. Managing and developing People
4. Managing Up
5. Managing Managers
6. Inclusion and Diversity
7. Hiring, retention and outplacement
8. Project Management
   • Waterfall projects
   • Agile projects
   • OKR
9. Technical Paths
   • Architecture
     • Domain Driven Design (DDD)
     • Acceptance test–driven development (ATDD)
     • Test-driven development (TDD)
     • behavior-driven development (BDD)
     • Continuous integration (CI)
     • Continuous delivery (CD)
     • Specification by example (SBE)
     • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
     • C4 model
   • Development
     • Front End
     • Backend
     • Full Stack
     • Mobile
   • "DevOps" / Pipelines
   • SRE
     • Incident Management and Response
     • Performance Engineering
     • Chaos Engineering
   • Infrastructure
     • Colocation
     • Cloud Infrastructure
     • Databases
     • Network
   • Security
   • ML/AI
   • BI
10. Frameworks
    • TOGAF
    • COBIT
    • IT4IT
11. Technology Trends
    • Value Stream Management.
    • Lean.
    • Agile at Scale (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, DAD).
    • Agile 2.
    • Flow Engineering.
    • Design Thinking.
    • System Thinking
    • Holocracy/Sociocracy

Disclaimer

This document don't an intend to replace formal education, in anyway. Once, you are in a management position, you will realize that you need to continue learning not only technical stuff, but also managerial related topics.