Engineering Leadership

A collection of resources related to engineering leadership and technology

Table of Contents

• Books
• Podcasts
• Newsletters
• Topics
  • Moving to management
  • One on Ones
  • Performance Reviews
  • Managing Staff Engineers
  • Growing Leaders
  • Managing distributed teams

Books

1. The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhou
2. Resilient Management by Lara Hogan
3. Turn the Ship Around! by David Marquet
4. Radical Candor by Kim Scott
5. The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
6. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
7. Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
8. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
9. Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren
10. HBR guide to managing up and across

Podcasts

• The Engineering Leadership Podcast
• Supermanagers
• Dev Interrupted
• Level Up
• HBR Ideacast

Newsletters

• Software Lead Weekly by Oren Ellenbogen
• Manager TLDR by Fellow App
• Level up by Patrick Kua
• The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz
• CTO Insights

Topics

Moving to management

• How to ensure a new manager succeeds
• How to fail as a new manager
• Trained Engineers - Overnight Managers (or, The Art Of Not Destroying Your Company)

One on Ones

• How to be someone people love to talk to

• Distilled Guide to One on Ones

• Get your silent 1-1s back on track

• Working the weekly-11

• How to Ask Better Questions

• Guide to better one-on-ones

• First 1-1

• First 1-1 template

• 1on1-questions

• Running 1-1s

• Approach to 1-on-1s

• Why your one-on-ones-should probably be longer

Performance Reviews

• Performance review tips for employees & managers

Managing Staff Engineers

• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track