Project Management Resources
You may have read Walt Maclay's book Highly Successful Engineering Design Projects. Here is more information to help you become highly successful at managing projects. Roundup: What [...]
Advice for new engineering managers
If you recently stepped into the role from a developer position, here is some of our most popular resources that others have found helpful. Are [...]
Engineering Manager: Are You a Boss or a Leader?
Learning to be a leader to your team, instead of being a boss, can be a challenge. This is true whether you have just transitioned from [...]
Tips to successfully manage product development without a technical background
Managing product development is difficult. Especially when you don't have a technology background and you are doing it for the first time. We have worked [...]
The Engineering Manager’s Journey for Engineering Excellence
For engineering managers who want to create workplace environments for high performance and engineering excellence, learning from peers is a great way to become a [...]
Encourage Employees to Try New Things
Many successful teams learn faster than their rivals, and with the support of good managers, this nimble learning helps create work environments where employees are encouraged [...]
Team Building: Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing
As an engineering manager, team building--especially building high-performing teams--is critical to your success. Managers must understand how to get groups to work effectively across the [...]
5 simple employee motivation strategies
Reprinted from KnowledgeFlow Blog. KnowledgeFlow provides tools for managing creative work include task addons for BaseCamp, project management software. 5 approaches to employee motivation Strategy 1: communicate. Effective communication [...]
What does the IoT Explosion Mean to Engineering Managers?
The idea of connecting devices to the internet (IoT) has been popularized and is seen as the next big thing with projections of massive growth. [...]
Advice to Hardware Startups
Avoid risk in making your new product. At the beginning of each new project, we spend a lot of time understanding the context of the design [...]