Project Engineering Manager Roles and Responsibilities
Project Engineering Manager Roles and Responsibilities
By Aaron Sanders
Project Engineering Manager Roles
- Ensures the successful completion of Work-in-progress (WIP)
- Understands the process of product creation
Project Engineering Manager Responsibilities
- Responsible for rate of production and lead time (what each engineer needs to fulfill their commitment)
- Responsible for initial high level sizing
- Works with the architect and the team to prove technical integrity
- Responsible for conducting forward leaning technology investigations (spikes)
- Negotiating with architect on technical approaches
- Removes most bottlenecks
- Enforces engineering best practices
- Ensures motivation of their team
- Assists career development of team members
- Conducts focals
Aaron Sanders, always in the search for a better way to do business, has learned of Agile early in this decade, and incorporated its principles in his place of work. Recently, he was involved in pushing the definition of Agile to new levels at Yahoo! He is currently collaborating with organizations to steward the emergence of these Agile values and enable widespread adoption. Aaron Sanders writes extensively about Agile in his blog, constant change.
