First 90 Days as an Engineering Manager.
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Six one-page templates to run better 1:1s, map stakeholders, and get a fast read on your team, so you look prepared from day one.

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By Hamid Moosavian, Director of Engineering at XE.com

What New Engineering Managers Run Into

First 1:1

You want to build trust fast, but you're not sure what to ask, what to write down, and how to set expectations without making it awkward.

Team Assessment

You inherited a team, but you don't know strengths, gaps, and risks yet, and you need a structured read in the first few weeks.

Stakeholder Map

You're meeting new stakeholders and don't know who influences decisions, who controls budget, and who needs proactive alignment.

30-60-90 Plan

You need a plan that is credible and realistic, but it's easy to either overcommit or produce something too vague to be useful.

Hiring Scorecard

You're interviewing without a consistent rubric, which makes signals noisy and debriefs subjective.

AI Fluency Assessment

You allow AI in interviews, but you don't have a rubric to separate pilots (who verify and adapt) from passengers (who copy-paste blindly).

What's Inside the Kit

  1. First 1:1 Script: Questions that build trust and surface what matters in the first conversation
  2. Team Assessment Scorecard: A structured way to evaluate strengths, gaps, and risks across your team
  3. Stakeholder Map Template: A simple map to identify decision influencers and focus your alignment effort
  4. 30-60-90 Day Plan Template: Realistic milestones that show progress without overcommitting
  5. Hiring Scorecard: Consistent criteria that make debriefs evidence-based, not opinion-based
  6. AI Fluency Assessment Template: A 0-4 rubric to score prompting, verification, and judgment with practical interview probes

How to Use This in 30 Minutes

  1. Download the kit

    Six one-page templates, ready to use

  2. Run your next 1:1 with the script

    Capture the right signals in one conversation

  3. Do a 10-minute stakeholder map

    Identify who to align with first and what they care about

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