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There are many courses about technical skills for SE, but there is a lack of soft skills.
The list below is important for SEs to grow their careers.
How to run a meeting, and no, being the person who talks the most in the meeting is not the same thing as running it
How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
How to mentor an early-career teammate, a mid-career engineer, a new manager who needs technical advice
How to indulge a senior manager who wants to talk about technical stuff that they don’t really understand, without rolling your eyes or making them feel stupid
How to explain a technical concept behind closed doors to a senior person too embarrassed to openly admit that they don’t understand it
How to influence another team to use your solution instead of writing their own
How to get another engineer to do something for you by asking for help in a way that makes them feel appreciated
How to lead a project even though you don’t manage any of the people working on the project
How to get other engineers to listen to your ideas without making them feel threatened
How to listen to other engineers’ ideas without feeling threatened
How to give up your baby, that project that you built into something great, so you can do something else
How to teach another engineer to care about that thing you really care about (operations, correctness, testing, code quality, performance, simplicity, etc)
How to communicate project status to stakeholders
How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
How to build software while delivering incremental value in the process
How to craft a project proposal, socialize it, and get buy-in to execute it
How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen
How to pick your battles
How to help someone get promoted
How to get information about what’s really happening (how to gossip, how to network)
How to find interesting work on your own, instead of waiting for someone to bring it to you
How to tell someone they’re wrong without making them feel ashamed
There are many courses about technical skills for SE, but there is a lack of soft skills.
The list below is important for SEs to grow their careers.
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