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Engineering Manager Books
Successful engineering managers deliver for both the business and their people. Many of us pivot into people management without training, fumbling our way through the first few years before hitting a stride.
Great managers break through the inevitable plateau and lead their teams to new heights. These books will help you navigate the waters of people management with an emphasis on fostering a culture of high performance.
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The Manager's Path
The definitive guide to understanding expectations at each level of engineering management
Ask Your Developer
How one world class software company leverages developers to drive business success
The Unicorn Project
A story about rebellion against bureaucracy and corporate politics to delivery customer results
Books Explaining the Gender Gap in Software Engineering
Exploring why we don’t see more women in software development
5 Books to Increase Productivity on Software Engineering Teams
Software development metrics and advice to improve productivity and performance
Books on Distributed Systems and Resilience Engineering
Build systems to serve more users while increasing reliability and performance
Books to Prevent Burnout in High Performance Engineering Teams
Identify the symptoms of burnout within software teams and prevent burnout using these books
The E-Myth Revisited
The case for systematization and working on the business, not just in the business
Difficult Conversations
Pragmatic advice with examples for initiating and executing difficult conversations
Brotopia
The book I wish everyone would read before pontificating about how to get more women into tech
Wooden on Leadership
Lessons on coaching and leadership that easily translate to managing software engineering
The Mythical Man Month
The origin of Brooks’s Law and look into the counterintuitive world of software engineering management
Articles for Engineering Managers
Clean workspaces instead of rewrites
The pragmatic engineer’s alternative to a rewrite
Refactoring is a daily job
Five things that engineering leaders need to understand about refactoring
Who Killed the Junior Developer? Five Unusual Suspects.
An investigation into who killed the junior developer job market
Find your limiting factor for deployment frequency
A quick guide to identifying what’s preventing your team from releasing more
Look for natural talents
An introduction to the Engineering Talent Matrix
Deploy to production on day one
Shipping on the first day is an opportunity to send positive signals to new hires about your engineering culture