For Engineering Managers

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Article

Type	Name	Section	Link
Article	Responsibility, Accountability, Ownership: Definitions, Distinctions, and How They Add Up to a Healthy Team — Signal Key	CareerRoleCulture	www.signalkey.com
Article	📄 Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness	CultureRole	kind.engineering
Article	📄 PM & EM: Rules of Engagement \| Twilio Segment Blog	Role	segment.com
Article	📄 A Deep Dive into Developer Experience Surveys — Laura Tacho	CultureOrganizationWork-Life Balance	lauratacho.com
Article	📄 Always be leaving by Ángel Cereijo	Role	amcereijo.medium.com
Article	📄 Why our engineering leaders focus on product over process	Role	medium.com
Article	📄 Don't make yourself redundant - The Engineering Manager	RoleOrganization	www.theengineeringmanager.com
Article	📄 This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers \| First Round Review	RoleCareer	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 Say the Hard Thing – Rands in Repose	1on1Culture	randsinrepose.com
Article	📄 How Data Can Make Better Managers	Role	hbr.org
Article	📄 Google Tried to Prove Managers Don't Matter. Instead, It Discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones \| Inc.com	Role	www.inc.com
Article	📄 [comic] The Planning Fallacy: Why We're Terrible at Setting Realistic Deadlines	Agile	blog.doist.com
Article	📄 Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team	Hiring	newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Article	📄 Top 10 causes of employee turnover in 2021 (& how to stop it) - Officevibe	Culture	officevibe.com
Article	📜 Principles behind the Agile Manifesto	Agile	agilemanifesto.org
Article	📄 Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations \| by Jason Yip	Organization	jchyip.medium.com
Article	📄 What does my engineering manager do all day? \| by Joon Park	Role	parkjoon.medium.com
Article	📄 How Many People Can Someone Lead?	Role	www.patkua.com
Article	📄 How deadline-driven behavior sends your Scrum Teams spinning out of control \| by Todd Lankford	Agile	medium.com
Article	📄 Experimentation principles. Empower employees to rapidly test… \| by Nis Frome	AgileCulture	medium.com
Article	📄 Stop Fearing Critical Feedback — Fear Not Getting It Instead	CareerCulture1on1	blog.doist.com
Article	📄 The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers	Role1on1CareerCulture	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 Managing meetings without succumbing to Zoom fatigue	Remote	leaddev.com
Article	📄 The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Crafting a Personal Brand that Stands Out From the Crowd	CareerRole	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding \| by Camille Fournier	Career	skamille.medium.com
Article	📄 Agile Estimation: Why The Fibonacci Sequence Works	SoftwareDevelopmentAgile	www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
Article	📄 The Art of ETA. How to give precise development time… \| by Dana Yudelevich \| Level Up Coding	SoftwareDevelopment	levelup.gitconnected.com
Article	📄 TBM 20/52: A Product Super-Skill (Balancing Divergence and Convergence)	Agile	cutlefish.substack.com
Article	📄 Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision	SoftwareDevelopment	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day \| LeadDev	Organization	leaddev.com
Article	📄 The eight flavors of engineering management \| LeadDev	Role	leaddev.com
Article	📄 How you're causing low employee morale at your company	Role	getlighthouse.com
Article	📄 The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers 👑 - Refactoring	Role	refactoring.fm
Article	📄 The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways	Role	hbr.org
Article	📄 The importance of effective status reports \| LeadDev	Role	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Managing up - HBR	Role	hbr.org
Article	📄 What Everyone Should Know About Managing Up	Role	hbr.org
Article	📄 How to Manage Up at Work - WSJ	Role	www.wsj.com
Article	📄 The science of managing up \| Slack	Role	slack.com
Article	📄 A Tactical Guide to Managing Up: 30 Tips from the Smartest People We Know \| First Round Review	Role	review.firstround.com
Article	📄 9 Expert Tips for Managing Up at Work from Real Leaders	Role	getlighthouse.com
Article	📄 Is managing up a bad thing? \| Lara Hogan	Role	larahogan.me
Article	📄 7 Steps to Manage Up Effectively at Work \| Fellow.app	Role	fellow.app
Article	📄 Why Managing Up Is A Skill Set You Need	Role	www.forbes.com
Article	📄 Managing up is something all managers need to master \| Officevibe	Role	officevibe.com
Article	📄 3 problems with managing up	Role	www.fastcompany.com
Article	📄 Making the case to decision makers: the presentation format to follow	Role	www.mynameisjehad.com
Article	📄 The Art of Async: The Remote Guide to Team Communication	Remote	twist.com
Article	📄 Leading Distributed: The Remote Guide to Management	Remote	twist.com
Article	📄 After Hiring: The Remote Guide to Onboarding	Remote	twist.com
Article	📄 Scaling Your Remote Team: The Remote Guide to Hiring	HiringRemote	twist.com
Article	📄 Dealing with the problems of scaleups	OrganizationCulture	stanete.com
Article	📄 Reengineering the Recruitment Process	Hiring	hbr.org
Article	📄 When to Take a Chance on an Imperfect Job Candidate	Hiring	hbr.org
Article	📄 Polishing Product Management Skills	Role	www.patkua.com
Article	📄 Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’	Role	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Resilient Management, An Excerpt – A List Apart	Role	alistapart.com
Article	📄 Book Summary: 'Resilient Management' by Lara Hogan \| Pat Hermens	Role	hermens.com.au
Article	📄 Tips for engineering managers learning to lead remotely \| GitLab	Remote	about.gitlab.com
Article	📄 Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them - The Pragmatic Engineer	Career	blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Article	📄 Why this manager put workers in charge of their own raises, career development, and reviews	RoleCareer	www.fastcompany.com
Article	📄 2020 remote working learnings. My summary of learnings about Remote… \| by Txesk Planells Ceró \| Dec, 2020 \| Medium	Remote	txesk.medium.com
Article	📄 Creating Connections. The subtle leadership skill that makes… \| by Scott Mabry \| Nov, 2020 \| Medium	Role	scottamabry.medium.com
Article	📄 How we doubled the representation of women in Engineering at Clio \| by Ainsley Robertson \| Clio Labs	Hiring	labs.clio.com
Article	📄 Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication \| SoundCloud Backstage Blog	RoleRemote	developers.soundcloud.com
Article	📄 Giving feedback remotely - Know Your Team \| Blog	Remote1on1	knowyourteam.com
Article	📄 How to build team morale remotely - Know Your Team \| Blog	Remote	knowyourteam.com
Article	📄 How 2020 has shaped you as an engineering leader \| LeadDev	Role	leaddev.com
Article	📄 Management Debt - Andreessen Horowitz	Role	a16z.com
Article	📄 Compassionate Leadership Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient	Role	hbr.org
Article	📄 Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them - The Pragmatic Engineer	Career	blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Article	📄 12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies \| Hacker Noon	Role	hackernoon.com
Article	📄 A step-by-step guide to becoming a better engineering manager	Role	thenextweb.com
	📄 How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com
Article	📄 Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead - The Imperfect Manager	Role	xala3pa.github.io
Article	📄 What is an Engineering Manager? – Amy Phillips	Role	amyjph.com
Article	📄 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes	Role	www.patkua.com
Article	📄 The Engineer/Manager Pendulum	Role	charity.wtf
Article	📄 Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder	Role	charity.wtf
Article	📄 Being an Engineering Manager	Role	medium.com
Article	📄 “Software Roles and Titles” by Eric Elliott	Role	link.medium.com
Article	📄 Maker vs manager: How to connect your schedule to your goals	Role	blog.rescuetime.com
Article	📄 This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like \| Inc.com	Role	www.inc.com
Article	📄 Our Work-from-Anywhere Future	Remote	hbr.org
Article	📄 Trabajar en tiempos remotos - Ángel Cereijo - Medium	Remote	medium.com
Article	📄 Sprint Retrospectives: Solutions to 4 Common Problems	Agile	www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
Article	📄 How to build social connections on a remote team - Signal v. Noise	Remote	m.signalvnoise.com
Article	📄 Group Chat, Group Stress \| Basecamp	Remote	basecamp.com
Article	📄 Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way	Remote	basecamp.com
Article	📄 Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill \| First Round Review	Role	firstround.com
Article	📄 The Pyramid of Remote Team Communication Tools	Remote	doist.com
Article	📄 Why We're Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging Apps Like Slack	Remote	doist.com
Article	📄 Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It	Remote	doist.com
Article	📄 Nailing your first months as a new Engineering Manager \| Hacker Noon	Role	hackernoon.com
Article	📄 Should You Choose a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager Role?	Role	medium.com
	📄 How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com
Article	📄 What is an Engineering Manager? by Michelle Kung	Role	aws.amazon.com
Article	📄 Should Engineering Managers Write Code? \| Inside Intercom	Role	www.intercom.com
Article	📄 Want Better 1:1s? Start With These 100 Questions — LEADR	1on1	www.leadr.com
Article	📄 My Approach to 1-on-1s — Marco Rogers	1on1	marcorogers.com

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Blog

Type	Name	Section	Link
Blog	📄 Management 101 - The Engineering Manager	Role	www.theengineeringmanager.com

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Book

Type	Name	Section	Link
Book	No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings \| Goodreads	CultureHiringOrganization	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson	RoleCulture	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek \| Simon Sinek	OrganizationRoleCulture	simonsinek.com
Book	📚 Books On Recruitment To Read - Emma Salamanca	Hiring	dev.to
Book	📖 Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky	Hiring	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson	RoleCareerHiring	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Tech Resume Inside Out by Gergely Orosz	HiringCareer	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams and Organizations by David Loftesness	HiringCultureOrganization	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart	Hiring	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson	RoleOrganizationHiringCareer1on1	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek	OrganizationHiringCareerRole	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Resilient Management by Lara Hogan	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 El Manual del Manager	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek \| Goodreads	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier	Role1on1	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek \| Goodreads	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 Distributed Work Playbooks	Remote	services.google.com
Book	📖 Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet \| Goodreads	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo \| Goodreads	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier	Role	www.goodreads.com
Book	📖 The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins	Role	www.goodreads.com

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Contact

Type	Name	Section	Link
Contact	🐦 Meri Williams (@Geek_Manager)	InterestingFollow	mobile.twitter.com
Contact	👤 David (@highwayman)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	👤 Lara Hogan (@lara_hogan)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Lena Reinhard (@lrnrd)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	👤 Justyna_Adamczyk (@Justyna_Adam)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 James Stanier (@jstanier)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 The Manager's Manual (@themanagersbook)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Keyvan Akbary (@keyvanakbary) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Oren Ellenbogen (@orenellenbogen) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Philip Paetz (@chapati23) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	👤 Angel Cereijo (@amcereijo)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Jessie Frazelle (@jessfraz) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Allen Holub (@allenholub) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Eric Elliott (@_ericelliott) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 rands (@rands) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Werner Vogels (@Werner) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Asier Marqués ☕ (@asiermarques) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Jason Fried (@jasonfried) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 DHH (@dhh) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Tim "Agile Otter" Ottinger (@tottinge) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 David Bonilla (en casa 🏠) (@david_bonilla) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Jose Ignacio Andres (@joserobleda) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Amir Salihefendić (@amix3k) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Camille Fournier (@skamille)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Pat Kua (@patkua)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Txesk (@txesk) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🐦 Alvaro Salazar 🏠🏓 (@xala3pa) / Twitter	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	👤 Félix López (@flopezluis)	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🙋🏽 LeadingIn.Tech	InterestingFollow	twitter.com
Contact	🙋🏽 Roberto Ansuini	InterestingFollow	twitter.com

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Course

Type	Name	Section	Link
Course	👨🏽‍🎓 How to master 1:1 meetings - online course	1on1	lp.nailted.com
Course	👨🏽‍🎓 How to Manage a Remote Team \| Coursera	Remote	www.coursera.org

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Newsletter

Type	Name	Section	Link
Newsletter	✉️ The Engineering Manager \| James Stanier \| Substack	Role	theengineeringmanager.substack.com

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Podcast

Type	Name	Section	Link
Podcast	🎧 Developing Leadership - The Podcast for Engineering Leaders	Role	www.developingleadership.co
Podcast	🎧 Interview with David Cancel, CEO of Drift \| Supermanagers Podcast	Role	fellow.app
Podcast	🎧 The Art of Leadership - Interview with Michael Lopp \| Supermanagers	Role	fellow.app
Podcast	🎧 Scaling Your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt	OrganizationCareerRemoteCulture	codingsans.com
Podcast	🎧 Interview with Cate Huston: Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo	Remote	fellow.app
Podcast	🎧 Supermanagers Podcast by Fellow.app	Role	fellow.app
Podcast	🎧 Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership	Role	www.infoq.com
Podcast	🎧 94. Engineering Management - Podcasts \| Heroku	Role	www.heroku.com
Podcast	🎧 NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management"	Role	twitter.com

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Question

Type	Name	Section
Question	Are you learning new things?	1on1
Question	⛑️ How can I help? (Lazy Question)	1on1
Question	🚫 If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to? (Strategic Question)	1on1
Question	💡 What was most useful for you? (Learning Question)	1on1
Question	🧩 What’s the real challenge here for you? (Focus Question)	1on1
Question	🎯 What do you want? (Foundation Question)	1on1
Question	➕ And what else? (A.W.E. Question)	1on1
Question	🧠 What’s on your mind? (The Kick Start Question)	1on1
Question	What additional training or education would you like?	1on1
Question	What skills would you like to develop right now?	1on1
Question	From 1-10, how do you feel on Sunday evening, thinking about Monday morning coming up?	1on1
Question	Do you feel over-worked, under-worked, or just the right workload?	1on1
Question	Are there any aspects of our culture/process you think need to change?	1on1
Question	What worries you? What’s on your mind?	1on1
Question	What could I do as a manager to make your work easier?	1on1
Question	What aspect of your job you would like more help or coaching?	1on1
Question	How can I better support you?	1on1
Question	What are your top priorities this week? + What can I do to help?	1on1
Question	How's your project going?	1on1
Question	What are your long-term professional goals?	1on1

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Tool

Type	Name	Section	Link
Tool	🔧 One-on-one question generator	1on1	one-on-ones.app
Tool	🔧 Fellow.app - Great Meetings Start Here: Collaborative Agendas, Action Items and more...	1on1	fellow.app

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Toolkit

Type	Name	Section	Link
Toolkit	🧰 Staying Connected – Resilience at Work \| Microsoft	Remote	www.microsoft.com
Toolkit	🧰 The Manager's Handbook	Role	themanagershandbook.com

For Engineering Managers

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Resources