https://github.com/ryanburgess/engineer-manager

A list of engineering manager resource links.

Engineering Manager Resources

A list of engineering manager resource links.

Books

• Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• The Advantage
• Managing Humans
• Thanks for the Feedback
• Good Boss, Bad Boss
• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• How to Win Friends & Infl​uence People
• Search Inside Yourself
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
• Rising Strong
• What Works for Women at Work
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
• Influence: How and Why People Agree to Things
• Crucial Conversations
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
• Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

Videos

• David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings
• How great leaders inspire action
• Female Career Advancement Summed up in One Usable Diagram // Janice Fraser // Calibrate 2016
• The Vegetable Talk (Leadership. By the numbers.) // Michael Lopp // Calibrate 2016
• Lara Hogan - Demystifying Public Speaking

Podcasts

• Front End Happy Hour Episode 17 - managers
• Manager Tools
• HBR episode on interviews
• HBR episode on feedback
• The Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equ

Articles

• Radical Candor
• Forget Technical Debt — Here's How to Build Technical Wealth
• 10 things you should never put in your inmails
• The Pivotal Stories Every Startup Leader Should Be Able to Tell
• Becoming the Boss
• Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure
• Medium’s engineering interview process
• The One Cost Engineers and Product Managers Don't Consider
• Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People
• F*** You, I Quit — Hiring Is Broken
• The best coding interview I ever took
• Want to Be an Outstanding Leader? Keep a Journal.
• Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary. Here’s the data.
• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
• Facebook’s HR chief conducted a company-wide study to find its best managers — and 7 behaviors stood out
• The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
• Should Companies Get Rid of Performance Reviews?
• How to Spot and Magnify the Powers of Your Engineering Superheroes
• The Keys to Scaling Yourself as a Technology Leader
• Meetings that don't suck
• The Art of the Awkward 1:1
• 101 Questions to Ask in One on Ones
• Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
• The biggest lie in HR: “People quit managers
• Want to hire faster? Write about “learning,” not “brilliance”
• Shocker: Tech’s widening gender gap is all about the bro-ification of Silicon Valley
• What's More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much
• This is what work-life balance looks like at a company with 100% retention of moms
• If there's a tech skills shortage, why are so many computer graduates unemployed?
• Research: We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback
• Netflix CEO reveals how much vacation he takes, and it's a lot more than most people take off
• How Loss Aversion and Conformity Threaten Organizational Change
• 10 Candidate Questions That’ll Make You Squirm (But Earn)
• The Future of Tech Recruitment: Sourcing, Hiring and Retaining Top Talent
• Why time management is ruining our lives
• Regardless of seniority, every good manager will
• W.A.I.S.T. The art of opening your ears and listening has never been so powerful
• How to Improve, Not Kill the Annual Performance Review
• How Lever Got To 50–50 Women and Men
• Force-feeding your hiring managers diversity is a bad idea
• Why Diversity Programs Fail
• Leadership Comes From Everywhere
• How These Seven Tech Leaders Are Tackling Diversity in 2017
• Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion
• Culture is the Behavior You Reward and Punish
• First Round Management Articles
• First Round Review's 6 Must Reads to Run Fast, Efficient Meetings

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Run npm install
3. Add your resource to list.json
4. Run node index to update README.md with your changes
5. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
6. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Add some feature")
7. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
8. Create new Pull Request