awesome-engineering-manager

Great thinking by Juraj Masar, CEO of Betterstack, where he raises several views on how to recognize the best in class engineers - not necessarily by their ability to ship code fast but rather focusing on ability to do less while producing more and effectivrly avoiding over-engineering or re-inventing the wheel

really handy summary of short advices to follow across many critical engineering management areas like communication, hiring, delivery, requirements management and many other

many different career frameworks from tech companies all over the world

career framework with examples and descriptions from the author of the Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Sarah Drasner

should you have a dedicated QA engineers or should everyone be QA by default in order to properly test their changes

great framework that helps out with planning career progression for software engineers

Great overview of patterns as well as anti-patterns that you, as an engineering leader, can see on yout team as a whole or on individual engineers and what to do about them

A funky youtube account talking about common challenges with agile in a relaxed yet interesting way

A super-short summary of what is dual track agile and what it is used for

Very thorough guide on various aspects of implementing DevOps capabilities and how they were implemented at Google

Talks about how the Engineering Investment Metrics gives the needed control over how engineering efforts align with business objectives and also give the opportunity to benchmark teams

My own article about what lessons did we learn from implementing the dual track agile system in our team and what we plan to do next based on these learnings

Voice-based AI behavioral interview practice for engineering managers and software engineers. 130+ role-specific questions, STAR-format scoring across 6 dimensions, and 3 interviewer personas. Free first question.

Practical guidance, templates, and resources for engineering managers. Weekly newsletter covering hiring, talent management, team execution, and leadership development.

In-person as well as online community for leaders in tech, specifically aimed on CTOs, originally from the UK but also other european capitals now

more thoughts on architecture decision records (ADRs)

Another great and simple explanation from AWS, this time about microservices

founder of honeycomb.io and a well-known persona in the observability space has her own blog where one can find some interesting thoughts on observability - I suggest you use this resource after you gain some essentials as otherwise it is too in-depth thus an alternative might be the below

Similar article like the previous one but has some nice visual explanations showing the branching strategies

the basics of architecture decision records (ADRs)

Deep dive into the different branching strategies in git specifically the contrast between trunk-based development and git/github flows

Great article from Gergerly Orosz about how to establish smooth collaboration between product and engineering sides of the organization

Amazing guide on how to get the most out of OKRs from Marian Kamenistak, an engineering leadership coach

Camille Fournier, author of The Manager's Path, dives deep into why OKRs are sometimes very hard for teams to work with and what are the shortcomings of the OKR system

Fantastic and contained list of prioritization frameoworks that can help you with decision-making and even though they appear aimed for product managers, they are also very useful for any role

My article about how we had to revisit our ways of working in a Product Trio (triarchy) in order to become even more efficient, decisive and supportive for our team

A short version of what a product trio is and why it is important to have it