Disclaimer: I myself am not (yet) an engineering manager (EM). This is just for me to collect resources.
- How to become a Software Engineering Manager? Read those 3 books about LEADERSHIP! | KaroCodes
- Books to read as a new engineering manager | Not Only Code
- What I WISH I KNEW before becoming engineering manager | Not Only Code
- Should engineering managers write code? | Not Only Code
- Engineering manager interview - common questions and how to prepare | Not Only Code
- What Engineering Managers Should Do (and Why We Don’t) • Lena Reinhard • GOTO 2019
- From an Engineer to Google SVP: My Career Tips and Advice | Leap.ai
- Top Five books on Leadership Development | Crash Course MBA
- OKRs vs KPIs - Learn the Difference | Weekdone
- How to set up Performance Indicators! The ultimate KPIs guide! | A2B Thinking
You might argue that this is tech-writer's job. I agree. However, a lot of companies do not have dedicated tech-writers.
- What nobody tells you about documentation | PyCon AU
- Visualising software architecture with the C4 model - Simon Brown, Agile on the Beach 2019
- Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Needs
- The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
- Leading Snowflakes
- The Phoenix Project
- The Unicorn Project
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- Making Work Visible
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
- System Design Interview – An insider's guide
- System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
- Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
- Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!
- Project Management All-in-One For Dummies
- Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager (Cracking the Interview & Career)
- Product Management's Sacred Seven
- Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
- Useful for debating with PMs regarding deadline, workload, etc.
- HBR Guide to Office Politics
- KPI Checklists
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI): The 75 measures every manager needs to know
- SMART Objective Setting for Managers: A Roadmap
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
- The Culture Map
- Especially useful for multi-national companies.
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Leading Change
- The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
- Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences
- The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
- The Manager's Dilemma: How to Empower Your Team's Problem-Solving
- High-Impact Tools for Teams: 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast
- The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
- In case you need to conduct a workshop for your team.
- Who
- A recommended book for general-purpose hiring. It's not specifically for software engineers.
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- Resources for Engineering Managers | Gregory Witek
- Productivity in Terrible Times | Eileen Webb
- Managering in Terrible Times | Lara Hogan
- Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change | Lara Hogan
- Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team | Gergely Orosz
- Coaches and Mentors for Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders | Gergely Orosz
- I Want to Hire Someone, But My Team Said No to on the Debrief: Ask the EM | Gergely Orosz
- Templates as Inspiration for Software Engineers and Engineering Managers | Gergely Orosz
- 14 Best Leadership Books to Read in 2022
- 10 Best Mentoring Books to Read in 2022
- Ask the EM: How Can I work Better with My Product Manager, as an Engineering Lead? | Gergely Orosz
- 15 Things You Should Know About Product Managers
- Have an empathy to project managers.
- How to Make Good Code Reviews Better | Gergely Orosz
- How technical do you need to be to be an Engineering Manager? | Mitra Raman
- As an EM, how do you make the most of 1:1 time for your direct report? | Mitra Raman
- Everyone shared that they were feelling more productive and found it easier to focus | Gregory Witek
- Here is what an Engineering Manager does | Abbas Suterwala
- Introducing "The 4 Ps of Engineering Leadership" | Thiago Ghisi