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awesome-engineering-management
A collection of awesome links on all topics related to engineering management
https://github.com/jamescarr/awesome-engineering-management
- Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the Ladder
- Surviving Your First Ninety Days as an Engineering Manager
- This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
- Do I truly want to become a manager?
- Art of the Akward 1-1
- Teplate for Effective 1-1s for Leaders
- Lara Hogan: First 1-1 Questions
- 5 One-on-One Templates for Effective Managers
- Why 1-1 meetings are crucial to your team’s success
- The Art of the One-on-One Meeting
- 101 Questions to Ask in One on Ones
- Manager Handoffs
- Benefits of a 1-1 Meeting
- 24 great one-on-one meeting questions
- Three Random Questions - An interactive resource that plucks three random 1-1 questions from a list of 101.
- The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster - Rands discusses the three buckets of 1:1s he typically encounters
- Writing a Team Charter
- Miro - Team Chater: The Ultimate Guide with Examples
- How Using a Team Charter Helps Our Distributed Firefox User Research Team Connect and Align
- Gergely Nemeth - Team Charters
- Mural - Team Charter
- Design Culture Basics - Creating Your Team Charter - Interaction South America 2015
- Trifecta: How to maximize product teams’ impact
- Functional vs. Unit Organization
- Social group sizes, Dunbar’s number and implications for communities of practice
- The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization
- Scaling engineering organizations - Lessons learned from scaling Stripe's engineering team.
- Team Topologies - A great online intro to the book, lays out several example toplogies.
- Sizing Engineering Teams
- Rands In Repose
- Irrational Exuberance - Will Larson's writings on management.
- The Engineering Manager
- 90 Day Plan (VP of Engineering - a template for a VP of Engineering
- Shishar's Tips for Executive Onboarding
- Level Up Engineering
- Super Managers
- Decisive Moments for Engineering Leaders
- Manager Tools - Management in general, not just engineering.
- The Manager's Handbook
- Coching for Leaders
- cto.coffee
- CTO Connection
- Scaling Software Teams
- The People Stack Podcast
- Manager's Club
- Reboot - highly recommended on the ups and downs of leadership. For me, I had a lot of struggles psychologically during the pandemic and this podcast had some great interviews and insights on handling it effectively.
- Managing Humans
- An Elegant Puzzle
- Manager's Path - Camile does a really great job in this book helping chart a career path for managers and how to constantly improve.
- Radical Candor - If you can get past the SV name dropping, there are some worthwhile strategies on having an honest relationship with direct reports and approaching difficult conversations effectively.
- Turn the Ship Around
- Accelerate
- The First 90 Days - onboarding new engineers and engineering managers will set the stage for success. This book is essential reading for charting a good 90 day plan for new hires.
- Rands Leadership Reading List - as I was typing this list, I realized the awesome community already had a great reading curated reading list, so sharing here.
- Manager's Handbook
- Progression.fyi
- Staff Engineer - Guides for reaching and succeeding at Staff-plus roles. I find these useful when talking with senior engineers on their career growth plans.
- 8th Light Career Grid
- LeadDev: Designing a growth framework for your engineering team
- Medium: Engineering growth: introduction
- Building a Technical Career Path at Spotify - Spotify's Career growth framework
- Engineering Ladder Link List - Learn from others by exploring the various career ladders used by other tech companies that are collected here.
- The Importance of Written Communication for Engineering Teams
- The Lead Developer
- Rands Leadership Slack
- Engineering Managers
- The Leadership Library for Engineers - a pretty incredible resource that I came across while researching for more content to put in this list.