Engineering Manager

Hiring Process

Perché: You can calibrate a hiring bar across interviewers and close a strong candidate against a competing offer, instead of only filling seats.

Onboarding

Perché: You can improve onboarding from what recent hires struggled with, such as missing docs or slow environment setup, so each cohort ramps faster.

Sprint Planning

Perché: You can protect the team from mid-sprint scope injection and negotiate with product when the plan no longer fits capacity.

Velocity Tracking

Perché: You can use flow metrics to show product why a deadline is at risk and which bottleneck to fix, such as review queues.

One-on-Ones

Perché: You can use a weekly one-on-one to notice that a strong engineer is disengaging, and act before they hand in their notice.

Feedback Culture

Perché: You can give specific corrective feedback right after a missed handoff and make peer feedback routine, not an annual surprise.

Tech Debt Prioritization

Perché: You can negotiate a fixed share of each sprint for debt by tying a specific item to slower delivery or repeated incidents.

Architecture Decisions

Perché: You can get a contested design settled through an ADR and a design review, so the decision and its reasons are recorded for later.