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

Feedback

• How can you make feedback conversations less painful?

Influence

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

Misc

• Leaders Tackle Challenges Early

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

• The Surprising Benefits of Conflict in the Workplace

• The dark side of the leadership

• Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes

• What I have been taught about leadership…

• Manage process before people

• Thriving in Chaos

• Open Leadership Training Series

• Why were you late?

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

• A Guide to Running Outstanding Business Reviews

• How do you handle layoffs on a large scale?

• Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact

• When You Plateau, So Does Your Company

• Be a thermostat, not a thermometer

• Three Ways to Gain Visibility into Indirectly Managed Teams

• OKRs as a strategy debugger (& sandwich maker)

• Good Goals/Bad Goals

• The Openverse - Open Source People & Culture Resources

• How To Fix Broken Teams | Stay SaaSy

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

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

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

• People Success Performance Indicators | The GitLab Handbook

• Get the Weekly Business Review App - Working Backwards

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

• Being in the details - by James Stanier

• Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron

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

• 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

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

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

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

• Selecting the right product metrics (KPIs)

• Product Principles | The GitLab Handbook

• Delegating Complex Tasks - Stay SaaSy

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

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

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

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

• Why Most Organizations Produce Brittle Teams Instead of Elastic Teams

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

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

• Management Mantras - Stay SaaSy

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

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

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

• 7 proven mental models for engineering managers