The State of Engineering Management
We think a certification authority should measure the discipline as well as assess it. The Academy surveys engineering managers worldwide and publishes what it finds about their practices and pressures, and how the work is changing. The first report is the 2027 edition.
The inaugural edition needs your ten minutes.
Fifteen questions on how you manage day to day. They cover your span of control, where your time goes, what is hardest at the moment and how the discipline treats its own development. Answers are anonymous by default. Leave an email only if you want the report before anyone else.
The report is published once enough people have answered that no individual’s responses can be picked out and the figures mean something. Until then the survey stays open.
Take the 2027 SurveyMuch of what engineering managers are told comes from anecdote. Practices spread by blog post and conference talk, and there is little data on what managers across the industry do: how many reports they carry, whether they still write code, how they learned the job, and whether anyone ever assessed them on it.
The Academy certifies against a published competency framework. That framework should answer to evidence, and the research programme is how we collect it. It also keeps us honest. Among other things, the survey asks whether independent certification matters in hiring, and we will publish the answer whichever way it goes.
This research is not marketing. No vendor sponsors it, no respondent is added to a mailing list, and findings that are inconvenient for the certification business get published anyway. The report is meant to be an accurate public picture of how engineering management is practised, and nothing else.