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Beginning Your First Week

Explore how to effectively transition into your first week as a software engineering manager. Understand common challenges such as managing impressions, dealing with impostor syndrome, and initiating proactive leadership for your team. Gain confidence and practical guidance to start your managerial role successfully.

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Congratulations on your new role! You may have not made the transition into management in real life yet, but in this course, you have. You are the star of this story.

Do you remember your first day in your current job? Perhaps, you turned up at the office to discover that everything that you needed to know was documented in easy-to-find places, the organization chart was up to date, there was an informative onboarding process, and building your development environment was an absolute breeze.

Oh, wait. No, this is the real world. Instead, regardless of whether you joined the company to write Java, do QA, or to be a Scrum Master, you likely spent your first week muddling through tasks, feeling like an ...