Score yourself as engineering manager in five minutes

A free field guide to score yourself, spot what's holding your team back, and fix it in 30 days.

For years, I measured myself the way I did as an engineer: what did I ship today?

Then I became a manager, and the question stopped working. Some of my most important days ended with nothing to show — no code, no closed tickets — while some of my busiest weeks moved nothing that mattered. I couldn’t tell a good week from a wasted one.

The trouble is that no one hands you a scoreboard when you start leading. So I built one.

It tracks the four things a manager is actually on the hook for: creating value, leading beyond your own team, growing people, and keeping work flowing. I put the whole thing into a short guide you can work through in a single sitting.

Inside, you’ll:

• Rate yourself on all four in about five minutes

• Find the one area quietly turning you into a bottleneck

• Leave with a 30-day plan and worksheets to fix it

It’s yours free when you subscribe to High-Impact Engineering — one practical idea for engineering leaders, every week.

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