Being an engineering manager is to run interference for your team of engineers. Protecting your team like a mama bear from the various requests / demands from o

Being an engineering manager is to run interference for your team of engineers. Protecting your team like a mama bear from the various requests / demands from outsiders. Of course, to do that you need the attitude of a mamma bear. The end result: your staff will love you for it, the other managers will hate you for it -- and stuff gets done! And that is what counts.