Resources

How Managers Build (or Break) Their Team’s Self-Confidence

The State of AI Adoption in Engineering Teams 📊

Going direct - by James Stanier - The Engineering Manager

The Art of Asking Smarter Questions

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

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

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

TDD: Purposes and Practices

1:1 Meeting

Retrospective - Three Little Pigs

Book Club

What Leaders Really Do

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

Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness

PM & EM: Rules of Engagement | Twilio Segment Blog

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

Five whys - AWS Well-Architected Framework

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

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

The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack

The Leadership Newsletter | Michael Lopp | Substack

The leadingIn.tech newsletter | Roberto Ansuini | Substack

Geek Incentives | Kent Beck | Substack

Level Up | Revue

Refactoring | Luca Rossi | Substack

The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack

The Engineering Manager | James Stanier | Substack

Always be leaving by Ángel Cereijo

Google - Site Reliability Engineering

Developing Leadership - The Podcast for Engineering Leaders

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

Introduction | Engineering Ladders

15 rules for communicating at GitHub | Ben Balter

Makers vs Managers: The Battle Over Remote Work - Ambition & Balance

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 One About Small Things, Done Well – 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

Interview with David Cancel, CEO of Drift | Supermanagers Podcast

The Art of Leadership - Interview with Michael Lopp | Supermanagers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Engineering Growth Framework – Medium

Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team

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

https://remotefirst.fm

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

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

How to run a better retro

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?

Scaling Your Team and Product: Leadership Stories from Product Hunt

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

Rewarding Talent | Index Ventures

How to Hire Entrepreneurial Engineers and Why You Need Them

The 10 Qualities to Look for When Hiring Software Engineers

Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works

Working Backwards

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

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

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

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

How to estimate as as an engineering leader | LeadDev

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

Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams | LeadDev

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

Technical Writing  |  Google Developers

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

Staying Connected – Resilience at Work | Microsoft

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

The importance of effective status reports | LeadDev

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

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

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

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

Leading Distributed: The Remote Guide to Management

After Hiring: The Remote Guide to Onboarding

Scaling Your Remote Team: The Remote Guide to Hiring

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

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

Dealing with the problems of scaleups

Reengineering the Recruitment Process

Writing Tips for Remote Workers (And Everyone Else)

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek | Simon Sinek

SoftwareLeadWeekly: A free weekly email for curious humans who want to build better teams and companies.

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

When to Take a Chance on an Imperfect Job Candidate

Three crucial skills that leaders must develop to become executives - The Skip

Polishing Product Management Skills

Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Focusing on wellness at work

A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky

Resilient Management, An Excerpt – A List Apart

Book Summary: 'Resilient Management' by Lara Hogan | Pat Hermens

Resilient Management by Lara Hogan

Tips for engineering managers learning to lead remotely | GitLab

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

How Airbnb Pivoted | Simon Sinek & Brian Chesky - YouTube

How Airbnb Is Dealing With the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Online Experiences

How Businesses Have Successfully Pivoted During the Pandemic

3 Important Lessons From Airbnb's Pandemic Pivot | Inc.com

Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them - The Pragmatic Engineer

Why this manager put workers in charge of their own raises, career development, and reviews

If You’re Building Microservices, You Need to Understand What a Bounded Context is | by Dave Taubler

How to master 1:1 meetings - online course

2020 remote working learnings. My summary of learnings about Remote… | by Txesk Planells Ceró | Dec, 2020 | Medium

We're Never Going Back - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Conway’s Law: Critical for Efficient Team Design in Tech - IT Revolution

Creating Connections. The subtle leadership skill that makes… | by Scott Mabry | Nov, 2020 | Medium

How we doubled the representation of women in Engineering at Clio | by Ainsley Robertson | Clio Labs

Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication | SoundCloud Backstage Blog

Giving feedback remotely - Know Your Team | Blog

How to build team morale remotely - Know Your Team | Blog

Does your organization need a developer evangelist? - Stack Overflow Blog

Interview with Cate Huston: Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo

Supermanagers Podcast by Fellow.app

How 2020 has shaped you as an engineering leader | LeadDev

Normalization of non-deviance

Management Debt - Andreessen Horowitz

Compassionate Leadership Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient

Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them - The Pragmatic Engineer

12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies | Hacker Noon

The Manager's Handbook

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier

Management 101 - The Engineering Manager

A step-by-step guide to becoming a better engineering manager

How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com

El rol del Tech Lead - Blog Talento IT

Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead - The Imperfect Manager

What is an Engineering Manager? – Amy Phillips

5 Engineering Manager Archetypes

El Manual del Manager

94. Engineering Management - Podcasts | Heroku

NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management"

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder

Being an Engineering Manager

“Software Roles and Titles” by Eric Elliott

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

Maker vs manager: How to connect your schedule to your goals

This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like | Inc.com

Our Work-from-Anywhere Future

Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek | Goodreads

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

Are you learning new things?

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

How can I help? (Lazy Question)

What was most useful for you? (Learning Question)

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

What do you want? (Foundation Question)

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

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

How to Manage a Remote Team | Coursera

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

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

On Remote Work - YouTube

Trabajar en tiempos remotos - Ángel Cereijo - Medium

Distributed Work Playbooks

Sprint Retrospectives: Solutions to 4 Common Problems

The Definition of a Tech Lead - patkua.com

How to build social connections on a remote team - Signal v. Noise

Group Chat, Group Stress | Basecamp

Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way

Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill | First Round Review

The Pyramid of Remote Team Communication Tools

Why We're Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging Apps Like Slack

Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It

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

Nailing your first months as a new Engineering Manager | Hacker Noon

Should You Choose a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager Role?

How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com

What is an Engineering Manager? by Michelle Kung

Should Engineering Managers Write Code? | Inside Intercom

Good Writing as an Essential Leadership Skill

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?

Want Better 1:1s? Start With These 100 Questions — LEADR

One-on-one question generator

Questions for our first 1:1 | Lara Hogan

My Approach to 1-on-1s — Marco Rogers

The Only One On One Meeting Checklist You Will Ever Need

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

Mega list of 1 on 1 Meeting Questions - Managers Club