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Cross-functional influence
Most of what an engineering manager needs in order to deliver is owned by somebody who does not report to them. This lesson is about the questions that test that — convincing stakeholders to change course, working with product and design and data, and the ambiguous situation where nobody has told you what the goal is.
What you'll be able to do
- Answer influence-without-authority questions with a mechanism rather than a personality trait
- Handle "convince a stakeholder to change course" and "a goal with an ambiguous path"
- Describe the product, design and data partnerships in terms of decisions rather than ceremonies
- Recognise when influence has failed and escalation is the correct move
Before this: project-delivery-and-recovery
The rest of this lesson is in the app
Most of what an engineering manager needs in order to deliver is owned by somebody who does not report to them. This lesson is about the questions that test that — convincing stakeholders to change course, working with product and design and data, and the ambiguous situation where nobody has told you what the goal is. This walkthrough runs about 24 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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