Summary

In this chapter, we learned how engineering managers can lead their teams through project planning and delivery by doing the following:

• Begin setting the stage for the project by understanding your environment and what you must provide to accommodate and support your team in that environment
• Finish setting the stage by evaluating and capturing opportunities to advance your engineering goals during the project
• Produce effort estimations with awareness of the amount of flexibility permitted in your plan, then break down work into small units and capture any assumptions you are making that impact the effort
• Prioritize the features of your project with stakeholders so you understand their relative importance and know what may be dropped if needed
• Address potential risks in the project by identifying them, organizing them into a matrix, prioritizing them, communicating them, and remediating them
• Put together a roadmap or timeline that captures sequential...