Engineering Leadership - 2024
A chronological archive of Engineering Leadership reading list posts.
2024
December 2024
🔗 How to Delegate Effectively as Your Responsibility Grows
🔗 How to give a senior leader feedback (without getting fired)
🔗 VC School: What's a Venture Scale Business?
🔗 Exploring the Minds of Software Developers
🔗 Exploring D2: A Declarative Diagramming Language
🔗 Why You're Bad at Giving Feedback
🔗 5 Essential Reads for Engineering Leaders
🔗 The Cynefin Framework Overview
🔗 4 Ways to Technically Upskill Engineers
🔗 Why You Should Have 1:1s with Your Peers
🔗 Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers
🔗 Learning by the Blade or From the Chalice
🔗 What is my ideal Career Path for Product Managers - Chapter 1
November 2024
🔗 How to Optimize Your Career for Happiness
🔗 The Cultural Characteristics of Fast-Paced, High-Performance Teams
🔗 Retiring from The Idea of Retirement
🔗 How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit
🔗 The Ultimate Guide to Onboarding Software Engineers (2024)
🔗 Exploring the Relationship between Tech Lead and Engineering Manager
🔗 Your company needs Junior devs
🔗 Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
🔗 The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
🔗 The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity
🔗 How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire
🔗 Part 1 of 4: The Everyday Business Metrics that Crush Innovation
🔗 Splitting Engineering Teams into Defense and Offense
🔗 Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
🔗 The Real Reasons Why Most Product Teams Struggle to Delight Users
🔗 Navigate Your First 90 Days in Product Management: A Step-by-Step Guide
🔗 Startups on the brink: Why a boom in innovation is around the corner
October 2024
🔗 Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
🔗 How to Measure Developer GenAI Adoption and Impact
🔗 Part 1 of 4: The Everyday Business Metrics that Crush Innovation
🔗 Splitting Engineering Teams into Defense and Offense
🔗 9 Things I Learned as a Software Engineer
🔗 Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
🔗 M@
🔗 The Ultimate Guide to Onboarding Software Engineers (2024)
🔗 Startups on the brink: Why a boom in innovation is around the corner
🔗 The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
🔗 The Efficiency Paradox: When Lean Operations Lead to Lean Innovation
🔗 The Elite’s War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity
September 2024
🔗 Unpacking Interview Questions by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
🔗 Home Baked Abstractions, Store Bought Implementations
🔗 Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
🔗 How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire
🔗 Exploring the Relationship between Tech Lead and Engineering Manager
🔗 Streamline Your Software Development with Software Blueprint
🔗 Three Critical Questions to Turn the Tables During Technical Interviews
🔗 How to Optimize Your Career for Happiness
🔗 Retiring from The Idea of Retirement
🔗 M@
🔗 The Real Reasons Why Most Product Teams Struggle to Delight Users
🔗 Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
🔗 The Cultural Characteristics of Fast-Paced, High-Performance Teams
🔗 Engineer’s Guide to Convincing Your Product Manager to Prioritize Technical Debt
🔗 No Estimations – Stop the Theater
August 2024
🔗 Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues
🔗 Curated Resources for Software Engineering Managers
🔗 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding
🔗 The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
🔗 Break the “Not My Job” Syndrome With The RACI Matrix (Template included)
🔗 A Common Problem with ADR Implementations
🔗 Building Engineering Progression - Part I: Groundwork
🔗 You Need to Understand the Business to Design a Good Engineering Strategy
🔗 Solution – We Don’t Need Managers!
🔗 Why Do Developers Lose 1 Day a Week to Inefficiencies?
🔗 Product Management Will Be Taken Over By AI in 5 Years
🔗 Introducing MX – Management Experience™
🔗 Building Engineering Progression - Part II
🔗 Importance/Difficulty Matrix: A Tool for Better Decision-Making
July 2024
🔗 Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta
🔗 The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
🔗 Engage your audience by getting to the point, using story structure, and forcing specificity
🔗 Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
🔗 How to create software quality.
🔗 The 10 Most Common Mistakes of First-Time CTOs, #3 and #4
🔗 What is a Personal User Manual?
🔗 Gen AI will increase demand for software engineers
🔗 Repetition: A Key Skill to Master as a Leader
🔗 The real 10x developer makes their whole team better
🔗 How Sprinting Slows You Down: A Better Way to Build Software
June 2024
🔗 What Andreesen Horowitz got wrong about engineering management (leaddev.com)
🔗 The 10 Most Common Mistakes of First-Time CTOs (makemeacto.substack.com)
🔗 How Sprinting Slows You Down: A Better Way to Build Software
🔗 How to create software quality.
🔗 Robs
🔗 Repetition: A Key Skill to Master as a Leader
🔗 People on Nice Teams Finish Last (staysaasy.com)
🔗 The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
🔗 The Difference Between Speed and Velocity - Getting Stuff Done (fs.blog)
🔗 You are a CTO, not an expensive Copilot (makemeacto.substack.com)
🔗 Engage your audience by getting to the point, using story structure, and forcing specificity
🔗 What is a Personal User Manual?
🔗 Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
🔗 Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta
🔗 You need to understand the business to design a good engineering strategy
April 2024
🔗 For God’s sake follow the Lean Startup Method
🔗 GenAI Copilots Exacerbate Problems
🔗 Positive feedback is different from praise
🔗 Introducing Narrative-Driven Development
🔗 How to Be a Better Software Engineering Leader
🔗 Amazon’s Press Release and FAQ
🔗 The Last Re-Org You’ll Ever Do
🔗 The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten, Part 1
🔗 A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture
🔗 What Sam Altman’s Prediction About The $1B One-Person Business Model Means For You
🔗 11 questions to crush your next interview
🔗 The Death of the Big 4: AI-Enabled Services Are Opening a Whole New Market
March 2024
🔗 AI startups require new strategies: This time it’s actually different
🔗 You’re always carrying a cannon
🔗 The Most Important Skill in Startup Engineering Leadership
🔗 Essential Gallup Workplace Statistics To Help You Thrive As A Leader In 2022
February 2024
🔗 5 Pieces of Advice for Junior Software Engineers Starting their First Job
🔗 The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster
🔗 From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate
🔗 Separating “best practice” from baggage
🔗 Effective Technical Leadership
🔗 How to get good at giving feedback
🔗 The One Key To Building And Keeping A Great Company Culture
🔗 Key Drivers for Engineering Experience and Performance
🔗 Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior
🔗 The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
January 2024
🔗 The infinite hows - An argument against the Five Whys and an alternative approach you can apply
🔗 Get your work recognised: write a brag document
🔗 Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?"
🔗 What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?
🔗 How to Build Trust as a New Engineering Manager
🔗 How to Recognize Exceptional Talent as an Engineering Manager?
🔗 Highly Profitable Engineering Teams
🔗 Metacognition: A Critical Leadership & Career Skill | LSW#39
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