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Templates for Engineering Managers

Gergely Orosz's Pragmatic Engineer has published a continuously updated collection of templates and resources for engineering managers and software engineers, including deepdive reports on MCP usage, GenZ in the workplace, code freeze approaches, and AI coding tools, as well as checklists for hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and engineering career development.

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Templates for Engineering Managers
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A checklist for engineering managers, business case for a platform team, project lead expectations, performance reviews and others

Below are research reports accompanying deepdives, plus documents and templates that hundreds of engineering managers and engineers have used with success at various companies. This page is being continuously updated and includes:

Deepdive reports. Going beyond the content shared in the deepdive. MCP usage in the real world, GenZ at the workplace, Code freeze approaches, AI coding tools, and more.Templates and resources for engineering managers. Checklists, narratives for business cases, promotion maps, and many more.Hiring. Interview process templates.Onboarding. Task list, email templates, checklists.Performance reviews and promotions. Preparing for promotions, work log, self-review.** Engineering career.10 bonus chapters from The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, writing goals, “wartime” vs “peacetime” differences. For software engineers.**Migration checklist, incident analysis template, project reporting template, and more.

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