Managing engineers is hard. Really hard. And cannot be improvised. Here's some books, articles and resources that helped my growth as a manager.
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- The update, the vent, and the disaster
- These 13 Exercises Will Prepare You for Work's Toughest Situations
- You’re not listening
- Stop saving them: why you should give people the chance to fail
- Don't YOLO hard conversations
- Engineering Management Distilled: A guide to one-on-ones
- Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
- Scaling your software becomes increasingly easier, but what about scaling your team?
- 44 engineering management lessons
- Culture code: creating a lovable company
- Cognitive Bias And Why Performance Management is So Hard
- The Dangers of Measuring Performance
- We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
- You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy.
- Performance management at startups
- The Root Causes of Product Failure - Marty Cagan (50 mins)
- Do you know how fast you're going? - Douglas Talbot (50 mins)
- Kanban in action - Marcus Hammarberg and Joakim Sunden
- The Phoenix project - Gene Kim and Kevin Behr
- Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Implementing Lean software development - Mary Poppendieck
- Driving technical change - Terrence Ryan
- Progressing from tech to leadership
- How to be the Engineering Manager your company needs
- How to Make the Leap from Engineer to Manager
- What to Do When You Start Managing Former Peers
- What do you make as a manager?
- Becoming an engineering manager
- How a bad boss influences our leadership style
- Leading snowflakes - Oren Ellenbogen
- Managing Humans - Michael Lopp
- The Manager's Path - Camille Fournier