Real-World Engineering Management

Advancing Women in Tech via Coursera Specialization

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Coursera Specialization
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English
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Learn software engineering management using the same practices as Amazon Web Services (AWS), with comparisons to the practices at Google and Microsoft! Gain insights to impress on your first (or next) engineering manager (EM or SDM) role. Lead instructor Nancy Wang, Director of Engineering and Product and General Manager of Data Protection Services at Amazon Web Services, shares the key business, technical, design, and leadership skills necessary for success at engineering manager roles at the world’s top technology companies. These skills will serve you throughout your career. Learn the most desired engineering management skills from other engineering leaders , including: Neha Rungta, Applied Science Director, AWS Identity Joy Idahosa, Software Engineering Manager of AWS Backup Audit Manager Caitlyn Shim, General Manager and Director of AWS Accounts, AWS Organizations, and AWS Service Quotas Cherie Wong, Vice President of Payments Engineering at Paypal Ann Funai, Founding Limited Partner at Operator Collective, former SVP of Under Armour and CTO of MyFitnessPal Ready to interview? We dedicated the content of this Specialization to teaching how to impress during your next interview and role. Learn how to systematically anticipate and answer the 10 most common interview questions for engineering managers, listed below.

Syllabus

Course 1: Leadership Principles for Software Engineers
Course 2: Inspiring Peak Performance on Technical Teams
Course 3: Building Products at Global Scale

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5 hours 46 minutes
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Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). Learn real-world software engineering management skills to succeed and impress in your first (or next) management role at elite engineering organizations. NANCY WANG, Director of Engineering and General Manager of AWS Data Protection Services and Founder, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), shares with you the engineering skills cultivated at AMAZON (the #2-ranked company in the Fortune 500), with supplemental practices from GOOGLE and MICROSOFT. Develop the skills and mental models that the world's best engineering managers apply to attract and retain world-class engineering talent. Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their managers, including: * How to BECOME A MANAGER * Whether MANAGERS or INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS make more money * What is the difference between MANAGER EFFECTIVENESS and MANAGER QUALITY * How to HIRE YOUR TEAM * How to guide a team with TEAM GOALS
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5 hours 33 minutes
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Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). In the previous course, Leadership Principles for Software Engineers, you learned about how to hire your team and set its goals. Now, learn how to lead each individual team member, increasing their personal best performance, and your team's overall performance, day after day. NANCY WANG, Director of Engineering and General Manager of AWS Data Protection Services and Founder, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), shares with you the engineering management skills cultivated at AMAZON (the #2-ranked company in the Fortune 500), with supplemental practices from GOOGLE and MICROSOFT. Develop the skills and mental models that the world's best engineering managers apply to turn their new hires into world-class engineers. Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their managers, including: * Why you blend WATERFALL and AGILE methodologies to avoid the problems of either * How you comply with LABOR LAWS and CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS while leading geographically distributed teams * How to develop HIGH PERFORMING ENGINEERS with your COACHING, AUDITING, and FEEDBACK * How you TURN AROUND poor performers on your team * How you ALIGN with other managers and their teams, and GIVE AND RECEIVE ESCALATIONS to accomplish cross-functional goals
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5 hours 25 minutes
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Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). In the previous course, Inspiring Peak Performance on Technical Teams, you learned about how to lead each individual team member to achieve a new personal best every day. Now, learn the skills that transcend the boundaries of your team and enable top tech companies to deliver the most popular and viral products and applications used by billions of people billions of times per day. GORDON YU, Technical Program Manager (TPM) at AWS Data Protection presents skills necessary to manage global programs, drive major product launches, and design system architectures. NANCY WANG, Director of Engineering and General Manager of AWS Data Protection Services and Founder, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) shares the next steps of a line manager's career into a manager of managers, and then to a director of engineering and general manager (GM). Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their cross-functional managers and leaders, including: * The common tasks of the TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER (TPM) and the tools they use to drive CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION * How to design a MODERN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE and answer system design interview questions related to MICROSERVICES, COMPONENTS, and TRADEOFFS * How to move from from a line manage to a MANAGER OF MANAGERS, and then to a DIRECTOR OF ENGINEEERING and GENERAL MANAGER (GM)