Management

Skews towards engineering management, but not exclusively.

See also Hiring.

Onboarding

• https://betterprogramming.pub/improve-onboarding-in-teams-through-the-magic-of-storytelling-31b7fc479483

• Onboarding EMs - jdamcd.blog

Feedback

• How can you make feedback conversations less painful?

Influence

• How to be “high agency” at work - by Torsten Walbaum

• Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”

• Influence Without Authority. One of the most common topics that… | by Gustavo de Lima | Mar, 2025 | Medium

• How GitHub taught me to Micromanage — Matthew Rocklin

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Taking responsibility for failure

Leadership & Development

• Leaders Tackle Challenges Early

• How to Take Personal Development Off the Backburner — Tactical Frameworks for Leveling Up

• The dark side of the leadership

• What I have been taught about leadership…

• Open Leadership Training Series

• The Signs of a Good CEO. Five Essential Features | by Roger Martin | Oct, 2024 | Medium

• things I learned from my ex-boss Dinesh - @visakanv’s blog

• A Practical Guide to Executive Presence: Earning Respect | Stay SaaSy

• Clear Thinking: Your Secret Weapon Against Leadership Stress – Scott Cochrane

• Stop Overthinking, Start Leading: The Power of Taking the First Step | by Scott Lyons | Management Matters | Feb, 2025 | Medium

• Why doing less makes you a better leader - Blog - Tech Leaders Launchpad

• Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP - Kellblog

• How to Hire a CEO. I often find boards of startups taking… | by Vinod Khosla | Jul, 2024 | Medium

• All I Need to Know About Engineering Leadership I Learned From Leave No Trace - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• Typical First Years of Startup Engineering Leadership

• Lessons learned in 35 years of making software – Jim Grey

• No Wrong Doors. | Irrational Exuberance

Team Management & Dynamics

• Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes

• How To Fix Broken Teams | Stay SaaSy

• Why Most Organizations Produce Brittle Teams Instead of Elastic Teams

• Rethinking Agile 1/3: Teams, Trust and Leadership | by Andrew Winnicki | Mar, 2025 | Medium

• Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output

• The Brilliant Jerk vs. Team Performance - Problem #3

• Three Ways to Gain Visibility into Indirectly Managed Teams

• Evolving annual reteaming at Redgate | by Chris Smith | Ingeniously Simple | Mar, 2025 | Medium

• How to Use Delivery to Move from Blame to Trust - Johanna Rothman

• Managing Underperformers | Jack Danger

• Creative Peer Recognition: How to Get Better at Team Celebration

• Micromanagement - The Absolute Worst? - Yaniv Preiss

• Forming, Storming, Dreaming, Performing — Gosei

• teambuilding / lower case opinions

• How organisations cripple engineering teams with good intentions

Goals, Strategy & Planning

• OKRs as a strategy debugger (& sandwich maker)

• Good Goals/Bad Goals

• TBM 324: Goal-O-Rama - by John Cutler - The Beautiful Mess

• How to Reduce Planning, Deliver More, and Surprisingly, Reduce Pressure - Johanna Rothman

• TBM 383: Maximizers vs. Focusers - by John Cutler

• I Like Dumb Plans - Stay SaaSy

• TBM 234: Maintenance, KTLO, and BAU - by John Cutler

• TBM 235: Forms & Shadows - by John Cutler

• Strategy as a Series of Beliefs - Kellblog

• Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization

• Roadmaps are tools - jdamcd.blog

Performance & Metrics

• Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact

• Am I a Good Manager ?. If you find yourself asking this… | by That Crazy Moment | Medium

• People Success Performance Indicators | The GitLab Handbook

• Output vs. Outcomes - Problem #4 - by Mike Fisher

• Selecting the right product metrics (KPIs)

• Product Principles | The GitLab Handbook

• Simple scorecards beat scales - Garry Shutler

Communication & Collaboration

• The subtle science of storytelling at work - Work Life by Atlassian

• Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron

• The Precise Language Of Good Management - Stay SaaSy

• Nailing the basics: How to collaborate cross-functionally

• Playing defense: How to control the narrative if your work is being questioned

• How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) – charity.wtf

• Fixing the fundamental problems of today’s remote meetings | Remeet — Incredibly fast and efficient meetings

Delegation & Decision Making

• Delegating Complex Tasks - Stay SaaSy

• Being in the details - by James Stanier

Organization & Culture

• GitHub’s Engineering System Success Playbook - GitHub Resources

• Manage process before people

• Thriving in Chaos

• The Openverse - Open Source People & Culture Resources

• When You Plateau, So Does Your Company

• Be a thermostat, not a thermometer

• Thermostats | Another Rodeo

• Design Your Organization for the Conflicts You Want to Hear About - Kellblog

• TBM 347: “Why Don’t Our Leaders Care About How We Work?”

• TBM 336: Product OS Design Tips and Principles

• Jade Rubick - Organizational work and the second job

• No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

Difficult Situations

• The Surprising Benefits of Conflict in the Workplace

• How do you handle layoffs on a large scale?

• Managers Believe Downsizing Is Effective. Research… | Corporate Rebels

• Human flaws in management: Unintentionally leading employees from engagement to exhaustion | by Austin Mackesy-Buckley | Management Matters | Mar, 2025 | Medium

• Are We Done Talking About Burnout Yet? Sadly, No

• Barriers to Change: Limiting Beliefs — NOBL

• How to prepare for difficult conversations

• The Silent Killer of Your Operating Practice: Fear

• Product Managing to Prevent Burnout | Honeycomb

Reviews & Meetings

• A Guide to Running Outstanding Business Reviews

• Get the Weekly Business Review App - Working Backwards

Specific Roles

• 5 Things Founders, Investors and Recruiters Should Know about the CTO role

• 7 proven mental models for engineering managers

• Explaining the role of a Delivery Manager – Emily Webber

• Hire for Floors, not Ceilings - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• Introverted Engineering Managers Manage From The Background — Why That’s A Good Thing | by Alex Ponomarev | Engineering Manager’s Journal | Mar, 2025 | Medium

• Knowing where your engineer salary comes from | sean goedecke

• The farther you go up the ladder, the less it’s about your technical skills – Jim Grey

• What a CTO should know about tech | deadSimpleTech

• Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? – charity.wtf

• Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – charity.wtf

Books & Resources

• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss 📚 log(book)

• Management Mantras - Stay SaaSy

Misc

• “Good engineering management” is a fad | Irrational Exuberance

• Why were you late?

• A manager’s ultimate guide to effective succession planning - Work Life by Atlassian

• Scale your impact as a manager—six areas where you need to do the heavy lifting - Management Excellence by Art Petty

• The Rise and Fall of the Blue-Collar Developers

• Writers who operate. | Irrational Exuberance