Coaching and feedback
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Grows engineers through regular one-on-ones, feedback, and career support.
Course coverage
- Engineering Coaching and Feedback
- Mentoring Engineers
- Engineering Management Fundamentals (planned)
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Management and support
Engineering Manager
Leads software engineering teams, growing people and shaping processes so teams deliver sustainably.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
82%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 8
- Published coverage
- 8
- Relevant courses
- 18
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
People leadership
4 capabilities
Hiring
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Designs fair interview processes and builds strong, diverse teams.
Course coverage
- Hiring Software Engineers
- Inclusive Hiring for Engineering Teams (planned)
Performance management
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Sets expectations and addresses underperformance with clarity and care.
Course coverage
- Engineering Performance Management
- Engineering Levels and Promotion Calibration (planned)
Team health
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds psychological safety, motivation, and sustainable pace.
02
Delivery and technology
4 capabilities
Delivery management
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Shapes planning, prioritization, and execution rhythms for the team.
Technical judgment
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Guides architectural and technical trade-offs without micromanaging.
Cross-functional alignment
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Partners with product, design, and leadership on direction and staffing.
Course coverage
- Technical Stakeholder Communication
- Stakeholder Mapping and Influence (planned)
Engineering metrics
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Uses delivery and quality signals to improve how the team works.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Engineering Coaching and Feedback
- Engineering Metrics
- Engineering Performance Management
- Engineering Team Health
- Hiring Software Engineers
- Technical Decision-Making
- Engineering Management Fundamentals (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Agile Software DevelopmentFree
- Blameless Engineering Culture
- Engineering Productivity
- Engineering Team Topologies
- Kanban for Technology Teams
- Mentoring Engineers
- Remote Collaboration for Technology Teams
- Scrum Fundamentals
- Software Project Management
- Technical Leadership
- Technical Stakeholder Communication
- Technical Strategy
- Engineering Levels and Promotion Calibration, Inclusive Hiring for Engineering Teams, Stakeholder Mapping and Influence (planned)
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