A place for (hopefully!) useful resources and references for engineering managers. I'll aim to add in more every time I have a tab open for too long...
- The problem with your manager... - friction between reports, expectation
- The disappointment frontier
- The Importance of Gender Neutral Language for Defence
- Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
- Monzo D&I resources - by Sheree Atcheson
- Managing unconscious bias - Facebook
- Raise awareness about unconscious bias - re:Work
- The Real Reason Women Aren’t Getting Ahead in Tech: “She’s Not Strategic”
- The confidence gap
- Will and Meri's point on [attitudes to personal grades] (https://medium.com/@willpillar/hitting-the-wall-why-progression-gets-hard-a3a751bd0dbd) - part of a wider article
- Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams
- re:Work by Google guide: Understand team effectiveness
- BICEPS
- The Joel test
- The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome
- Measuring Decision Effectiveness
- A primer on engineering delivery metrics
- A Rubric for Evaluating Team Members’ Contributions to a Maintainable Code Base
- Spotify's Failed Squad Goals
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
- The trident model of career development - Pat Kua
- 5 EM archetypes - Pat Kua
- Anna Shipman, Unlocking value with durable teams
- Progression.fyi
- Staff Eng - career paths of people reaching Staff level
- Zapier's guide
- Distributed.blog
- Automattic - social communication
- Automattic - overview of how they work
- 90 Day Plan for a CTO in a New Job
- VPE and CTO - The First 90 Days
- Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering
- Stripe - Scaling engineering organizations
- What I Learned Scaling Engineering Teams Through Euphoria and Horror
- Recruiter velocity check tool – headcount planning and reality check
- WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE? slides
- How to think about your career
- How to play to your strengths – talks about the importance of positive reinforcement and focusing on strengths, as well as walking through the Reflected Best Self (RBS) exercise.
- Engineering Management at GitLab
- Attest Engineering Handbook
- re:Work by Google - re:Work is a collection of practices, research, and ideas from Google and others to help you put people first.
- The Kool Aid Factory, The Planning Issue – Deciding what to work on and how you'll get there
- Lara Hogan - tons of brilliant blog posts
- Wherewithall - coaching, workshops, free tools
- High Growth Engineering, Stephen Whitworth
- Will Larson
- LeadDev - engineering leadership topics
- Calendly
- Pragli - Virtual office for remote teams
- Manager Readme
- Setting standards and expectations
- Semantic emoji
- Custom emoji
- Threads/no threads
- Channel naming conventions
- Approach to transparency
- Custom profile metadata (pronouns, name pronunciation)
- Turn the Ship Around!
- The Culture Code
- [The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier](The Manager's Path)
- An Elegant Puzzle, Will Larson
- Resilient Management, Lara Hogan
- The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo
- The First 90 Days - starting a new role