As an engineering manager, you’ve created tons of onboarding plans for new starters. But what about when someone is leaving the company? Or when you’re leaving yourself?
Let me paint you a picture: you’ve been with your organization for some time, you like your role, you love your team, and you enjoy the work. You care about the organization and the people involved. But a new, unforeseen opportunity comes your way with a lot more challenges to learn from.
So what do you do as an engineering leader once you’ve decided to quit your job? How can you curate an offboarding plan that will ensure the smoothest departure possible and empower your team to succeed without you?
Here I’m sharing my three steps for managing the offboarding process, from communicating with your manager and telling your team to creating the go-forward plans.
