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This book is a comprehensive guide written for software engineering professionals who are, or aspire to be, in leadership positions. It begins with essential soft skills, teaching you how to build an influential presence, make confident decisions, guide teams through challenges, and inspire excellence by setting high standards. It continues with sections on acquiring talent, managing, and supporting your team. Learn to write job descriptions that attract top talent, set up a smooth hiring pipeline, and seamlessly onboard new hires. Discover how to structure teams to minimize cognitive load and foster collaboration. Gain actionable insights into goal-setting, including defining OKRs, tracking progress, setting clear expectations, and conducting meaningful evaluations to recognize top performers and support growth. In the final section, the book delves into the technical aspects of leadership. Explore how to choose the right tech stack, establish coding standards, and manage technical debt effectively. Additional chapters offer guidance on evaluating Agile practices, setting clear communication protocols, and balancing quality with delivery speed. A CI/CD pipeline automates delivering code from an engineer’s computer to a usable software package. This includes a code review process, static and security checks, compilation, test automation, integration, and deployment to test and production environments. Implementing a CI/CD pipeline from the beginning of the project helps enforce coding standards and guarantees a baseline level of quality across the code base. Engineers can maintain consistency and reduce the likelihood of introducing bugs. CI/CD pipelines are considered part of the infrastructure and should be managed following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. IaC allows you to define the desired state of your infrastructure in a declarative or imperative format using configuration files, which can be stored in version control systems like Git. This enables versioning, collaboration, and rollback capabilities. Also packed with technical actionable advice from two decades of real-world experience, this book equips you to lead with confidence and drive impactful results. What You Will Learn:

• How to transition from individual contributor to a leadership position
• How to develop your presence, influence, and make difficult decisions
• How to craft attractive job descriptions, identify, interview, and hire top talent
• How to set expectations, evaluate performance, and promote deserving employees
• How to deliver effective feedback
• What best practices to introduce to your teams
• How to deliver high-quality, impactful software projects Who This Book is For: Senior Engineering Managers, Director of Engineering, VP of Engineering, and CTOs. And software engineering professionals who aspire to be in these positions