Level Up Your Engineering Management with the EM Starter Kit

The Engineering Manager's Starter Kit is a collection of ready-to-use templates designed to streamline your workflow as an engineering manager. Whether you're planning team capacity, tracking milestones, or managing team performance, this kit has you covered. These templates are built from years of management experience and can be easily cloned + customized in Google Sheets.

With this kit, you'll have access to the following templates

• Quarterly Roadmap Planning – Use this template to plan out your quarter, and align your team & leadership on the projects for the next quarter early so you can get focused. Read more about roadmap planning.
• Capacity Planning – Use this template to plan how much work your team should commit to in a quarter considering fixed and unexpected costs, time-off, product initiatives, etc. Read more about capacity planning.
• Health Checks – Use this template to track how your team is doing (health) across various categories like morale, productivity, software, etc. Read more about health checks.
• Rituals – Use this template to define how you will spend your time based on different time-horizons (your rituals). Read more about rituals.
• Bug Prioritization – Use this template to define priority levels for bugs, examples of bugs in each priority and guidance.
• Code Ownership – Use this template to keep track of which codebases your team owns, and what the ownership status is at any given point. Read more about code ownership.

What's Inside?

Everything is housed as Google templates, ready for you to clone and start using right away. No need to reinvent the wheel—just download, customize, and start leading your team to success.

1. 6 template links (google sheets) that can be cloned by hitting the blue "Use Template" button.
2. Each template has a "Readme" tab with usage instructions and a "Template" tab that can be customized to fit your management style/needs.

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