Engineering Lead

Overview

Guidance and resources for Application Engineering Leads.

• Manager and peer support
  • Lean on your manager and set up 1:1s with other past/present Engineering Leads for feedback or advice.
  • Begin to ascertain any aspects of the projects you may not be as familiar with. For example, if you are concerned about any gaps in infrastructure knowledge, please reach out to someone in #infra.
  • List of requirements/scaffolding that underpins building features for clients.
• Review the AppEng Directory 🔒
  • A helpful reference to see what languages, frameworks, tools, etc that other projects have used as a guide
  • Feel free to reach out to folks on particular projects to better understand what worked and didn't.
• Books:
  • Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
    • Guidance on leading high performing teams
• Exercises on the Project Toolkit 🔒
  • BICEPS
  • Superpowers and Kryptonite
    • Also helpful to go over again as a team when someone new joins
  • Lead, contribute, learn
  • Workstream norming
  • Service Blueprint
• Set personal and team goals
  • Example: MilMove AppEng Lead Goals and Initiatives 🔒
• Making decisions
  • Examples:
    • Decision Making Best Practices from KBase 🔒
    • Tech Roles and Decision Making Practices on KBase (presentation)🔒
• Measuring Quality
• Managing the Backlog
• List of technical requirements
  • Example (UNDER REVIEW): Technical Requirements Checklist 🔒