For Engineering Directors

The State of AI Adoption in Engineering Teams 📊

Going direct - by James Stanier - The Engineering Manager

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

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

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap - Honeycomb

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 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

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

Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team

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

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

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

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?

The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers

Technology Saves the World - Future

Managing meetings without succumbing to Zoom fatigue

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

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

Transparent Salaries | Buffer

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

Managing up - HBR

What Everyone Should Know About Managing Up

Is managing up a bad thing? | Lara Hogan

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

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

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

Dealing with the problems of scaleups

Writing Tips for Remote Workers (And Everyone Else)

When to Take a Chance on an Imperfect Job Candidate

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

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

Focusing on wellness at work

Resilient Management, An Excerpt – A List Apart

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

Tips for engineering managers learning to lead remotely | GitLab

How Businesses Have Successfully Pivoted During the Pandemic

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

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

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

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

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

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

How 2020 has shaped you as an engineering leader | LeadDev

Management Debt - Andreessen Horowitz

Compassionate Leadership Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient

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

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

How to Become a Great Engineering Manager - DevOps.com

Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead - The Imperfect Manager

What is an Engineering Manager? – Amy Phillips

5 Engineering Manager Archetypes

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder

Being an Engineering Manager

“Software Roles and Titles” by Eric Elliott

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

Trabajar en tiempos remotos - Ángel Cereijo - Medium

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

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

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

Good Writing as an Essential Leadership Skill

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

My Approach to 1-on-1s — Marco Rogers

Mega list of 1 on 1 Meeting Questions - Managers Club

A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky

Management 101 - The Engineering Manager

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

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

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

Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

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

Distributed Work Playbooks

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

How to Manage a Remote Team | Coursera

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 Engineering Manager | James Stanier | Substack

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

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

https://remotefirst.fm

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

Aaron Blohowiak from Netflix on Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

94. Engineering Management - Podcasts | Heroku

NoSoloTech - Podcast: "Engineering management"

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

What additional training or education would you like?

What skills would you like to develop right now?

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 long-term professional goals?

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

The Manager's Handbook

Retrospective - Three Little Pigs

1:1 Meeting

Book Club

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

Creating and sustaining motivation in engineering teams | LeadDev

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

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