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The Art of Asking Smarter Questions

Responsibility, Accountability, Ownership: Definitions, Distinctions, and How They Add Up to a Healthy Team — Signal Key

TDD: Purposes and Practices

What Leaders Really Do

Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness

PM & EM: Rules of Engagement | Twilio Segment Blog

Five whys - AWS Well-Architected Framework

What is a 5 Whys? Step-by-Step Guide to Running a 5 Whys Exercise

The Five Whys Technique

How to Ask Great Questions

A Deep Dive into Developer Experience Surveys — Laura Tacho

Anti-Flow – Rands in Repose

Always be leaving by Ángel Cereijo

Why our engineering leaders focus on product over process

Don't make yourself redundant - The Engineering Manager

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap - Honeycomb

15 rules for communicating at GitHub | Ben Balter

This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers | First Round Review

Gossip, Rumors, and Lies – Rands in Repose

Say the Hard Thing – Rands in Repose

Everything Breaks – Rands in Repose

The Org Chart Test – Rands in Repose

How to Recruit – Rands in Repose

The Blue Tape List – Rands in Repose

Refactor Organisation - to build the technology right | BBC Product & Technology

The Situation – Rands in Repose

The Art of Leadership, by Michael Lopp – Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist

Q&A on the Book The Art of Leadership

Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup – Rands in Repose

When is it ok to face-mute on Zoom? | Zapier

Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous

How Data Can Make Better Managers

Are You Aware of Your Biases?

¿Por qué es difícil la estrategia? - by Simón Muñoz

Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer - The Pragmatic Engineer

The Future of Performance Reviews

Writing Culture at Amazon

Google Tried to Prove Managers Don't Matter. Instead, It Discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones | Inc.com

[comic] The Planning Fallacy: Why We're Terrible at Setting Realistic Deadlines

How Hybrid Remote Work Improves Diversity And Inclusion

Creating an inclusive team culture in times of change | LeadDev

Designing an inclusive workplace in a new normal | LeadDev

5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day

We Work Remotely | 5 Inclusive Workplace Practices For Your Remote Team

Don’t Let Hybrid Work Set Back Your DEI Efforts

Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers | LeadDev

Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team

Top 10 causes of employee turnover in 2021 (& how to stop it) - Officevibe

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations | by Jason Yip

What does my engineering manager do all day? | by Joon Park

How Many People Can Someone Lead?

How deadline-driven behavior sends your Scrum Teams spinning out of control | by Todd Lankford

The GitLab Test — 12 Steps to Better Remote

Experimentation principles. Empower employees to rapidly test… | by Nis Frome

How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work | The New Yorker

Equity 101 for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups - The Pragmatic Engineer

Startups need to stop dividing tech and product. Hire a CPTO | Sifted

Software Engineers Growth framework

The 10 Qualities to Look for When Hiring Software Engineers

Working Backwards

¿De verdad hay escasez de developers o los empleadores no saben contratar?

Stop Fearing Critical Feedback — Fear Not Getting It Instead

The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers

Technology Saves the World - Future

Managing meetings without succumbing to Zoom fatigue

The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Crafting a Personal Brand that Stands Out From the Crowd

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier

Agile Estimation: Why The Fibonacci Sequence Works

The Art of ETA. How to give precise development time… | by Dana Yudelevich | Level Up Coding

TBM 20/52: A Product Super-Skill (Balancing Divergence and Convergence)

Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision

How to be Remote-First When You Still Have an Office

Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day | LeadDev

The eight flavors of engineering management | LeadDev

How you're causing low employee morale at your company

Hiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework from Shopify’s VPE to Get it Right | First Round Review

Write Like an Amazonian

La evolución del recruitment tecnológico en España | Talento IT Blog

Atlassian Announces Its Shift To Distributed-First Policy | Hacker Noon

The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers 👑 - Refactoring

Transparent Salaries | Buffer

The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

The importance of effective status reports | LeadDev

Managing up - HBR

What Everyone Should Know About Managing Up

How to Manage Up at Work - WSJ

The science of managing up | Slack

A Tactical Guide to Managing Up: 30 Tips from the Smartest People We Know | First Round Review

9 Expert Tips for Managing Up at Work from Real Leaders

Is managing up a bad thing? | Lara Hogan

7 Steps to Manage Up Effectively at Work | Fellow.app

Why Managing Up Is A Skill Set You Need

Managing up is something all managers need to master | Officevibe

3 problems with managing up

Making the case to decision makers: the presentation format to follow

Find Your Why: How to Draft a Why Statement

Re:Focus: Write A Vision Statement That Works

Designing Without Whiteboards: The Remote Guide to Product Design

The Art of Async: The Remote Guide to Team Communication

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar | Goodreads

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings | Goodreads

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa Torres | Goodreads

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries | Goodreads

Google - Site Reliability Engineering

The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Rewarding Talent | Index Ventures

Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek | Simon Sinek

Books On Recruitment To Read - Emma Salamanca

Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson

The Tech Resume Inside Out by Gergely Orosz

Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams and Organizations by David Loftesness

Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

Resilient Management by Lara Hogan

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Goodreads

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier

El Manual del Manager

Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek | Goodreads

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek | Goodreads

Distributed Work Playbooks

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet | Goodreads

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo | Goodreads

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins

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The Manager's Manual (@themanagersbook)

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Roberto Ansuini

Technical Writing  |  Google Developers

How to master 1:1 meetings - online course

How to Manage a Remote Team | Coursera

Developing Leadership - The Podcast for Engineering Leaders

The One About Small Things, Done Well – Rands in Repose

Interview with David Cancel, CEO of Drift | Supermanagers Podcast

The Art of Leadership - Interview with Michael Lopp | Supermanagers

https://remotefirst.fm

Scaling Your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt

How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them

One CEO's vision for a remote, asynchronous future of work

#85 Juegos infinitos: primeras frases, Mario y Fray Perico y su borrico - Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago

Interview with Cate Huston: Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo

Supermanagers Podcast by Fellow.app

Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

94. Engineering Management - Podcasts | Heroku

NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management"

Are you learning new things?

And what else? (A.W.E. Question)

How can I help? (Lazy Question)

What do you want? (Foundation Question)

What’s the real challenge here for you? (Focus Question)

What was most useful for you? (Learning Question)

If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to? (Strategic Question)

What’s on your mind? (The Kick Start Question)

What additional training or education would you like?

What skills would you like to develop right now?

From 1-10, how do you feel on Sunday evening, thinking about Monday morning coming up?

Do you feel over-worked, under-worked, or just the right workload?

Are there any aspects of our culture/process you think need to change?

What worries you? What’s on your mind?

What could I do as a manager to make your work easier?

How can I better support you?

What aspect of your job you would like more help or coaching?

What are your top priorities this week? + What can I do to help?

How's your project going?

What are your long-term professional goals?

One-on-one question generator

Fellow.app - Great Meetings Start Here: Collaborative Agendas, Action Items and more...

How to become 37.78 times better at anything | Atomic Habits summary (by James Clear)

Building and Scaling a Distributed and Inclusive Team – Mathias Meyer | The Lead Developer UK - YouTube

How to run a better retro

How to estimate as as an engineering leader | LeadDev

Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams | LeadDev

The Infinite Game: How to Lead in the 21st Century - YouTube

How Airbnb Pivoted | Simon Sinek & Brian Chesky - YouTube

On Managing Technical Teams as a First-Time Manager: CTO, Engineering, Management | Y Combinator

5 Things: How to Rock Remote Work | svenpet.com

On Remote Work - YouTube

A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky

Management 101 - The Engineering Manager

Introduction | Engineering Ladders

Engineering Growth Framework – Medium

LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing: Awesome List of resources on leading people and being a manager. Geared toward tech, but potentially useful to anyone.

Staying Connected – Resilience at Work | Microsoft

GitHub - kuchin/awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups

The Manager's Handbook