Engineering Manager Resources

A collection of engineering manager resources I've found over time. I need to go over again and add notes, cull for quality, and organize.

Posts & Podcasts

General

• Three Suggestions for Engineering Managers

• This is what impactful engineering leadership looks like

• What makes a great Engineering Manager?

• Good Engineering Managers aren't just hard to find — they don't exist

• What are some characteristics of a bad engineering manager?

• A Manager's FAQ

• Unintuitive Things I've Learned About Management (part 2)

• Margaret Leibovic - A Year in Management

New Managers

• Cate Huston - The Hardest, Shortest, Lesson on Becoming a Manager

• Skyler Whorton - Becoming a Tech Lead: How I've Balanced Coding with Coasching

• Selena Deckelmann - "Manager Newbie"

Leadership

• To Lead Well, Make Time to Play at Work

• Brent Baisley - The Problem with Tech Leads

Good Engineering Manager/Bad Engineering Manager

Engineering management versions of Ben Horowitz's Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager.

• Andy Britcliffe
• Dean Hume
• Julie Zhuo (Average Manager vs Great Manager)

Hiring

• "Women and Minorities Don't Apply"

Books

• Startup Engineering Management

Resources

• re:Work from Google - A collection of actionable tasks, case studies and guides for managers.

• Bruce Tuckman's 1965 Forming Storming Norming Performing team-development model

• Occupational Employment Statistics, May 2014, Engineering and Architectural Managers