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249 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 249 with a note, 190 in a Weekly Thing.
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- medium.com 19, hbr.org 6, linkedin.com 6, martinfowler.com 5, blogs.atlassian.com 4
2026
2025
- So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway?
- Seeing like a software company
- The Purpose of Prototypes : Silicon Valley Product Group
- The CTO and chief product officer in the Age of Generative AI: A New Playbook for Technology Leadership
- YAGRI: You are gonna read it
- Product Development Processes You Might Not have Heard of
- Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'
2024
2023
- The seven pillars of modern AI development: Leaning into the era of custom copilots | Microsoft Azure Blog
- Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
- How to be on-call
- Microsoft’s 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report
- Does Your Hybrid Strategy Need to Change?
- Project management
- Onboarding Antipatterns
- Manage process before people
- The Many Hats of Product Managers
- Onboarding peer executives.
- The age of cargo cult Agile must end. | Jason Yip
- Setting engineering org values.
2022
- Creating a Thriving On-Call Engineering Workflow by Embracing Healthy Team Habits | Adobe Tech Blog
- What I've Learned from Users
- Crucial Questions from CEOs and Boards
- IKEA’s Knowledge Graph and Why It Has Three Layers | Flat Pack Tech
- Software Engineering - The Soft Parts
- Design Your Organization to Match Your Strategy
- Product Shouldn't Be Left to Product Managers
- Thin Platforms
- One Way Fastmail Developers Build a Creative Workplace Culture
- The not-so-obvious positive outcomes of great incident management
- Untangling Organizational Dependencies
- Some Notes on Executive Dashboards
- Organizations as Learning Systems
- The Factorio Mindset
- Becoming a Better Writer in Tech
2021
- Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally
- 42 things I learned from building a production database
- Rows — The spreadsheet where teams work faster
- Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
- The SaaS Metrics That Matter - Bottom Up by David Sacks
- The Skill of Org Design
- The Tech Worker Handbook
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
- Jade's Monthly Reflections: 6 Major Keys to Building A Successful Career!
- The Document Culture of Amazon
- The hybrid work paradox by Satya Nadella
- Metric Display Standards. Best practices for presenting numbers… by Tim Sheiner | Salesforce Design
- A hybrid approach to work — The Keyword
- How to Do Hybrid Right
- Embrace your inner incident commander
- Rethinking Ecommerce as Commerce at Home
- We need to talk about your Q3 roadmap
- Technology Guilds at SPS Commerce
- We're Never Going Back
- Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future
- awesome-cto: A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups
- Focus on Your First 10 Systems, Not Just Your First 10 Hires — This Chief of Staff Shares His Playbook
- Make Boring Plans. You’re probably familiar with the… | by Camille Fournier | Jan, 2021
- How to write digital products with personality by Nick DiLallo
- Cognitive Load and Domain Complexity - Leah Cunningham
- The Chief People Officer—The CIO’s Partner in Change
- Customer Success: Why Big Teams Need a Small-Size Approach
- Being Chief Technology Officer: Lessons learned in my first year
- What the $%#! is a Platform Company
2020
- Excerpts from Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Production Oriented Development
- RemoteRetro — make retros easy!
- Sequencing Business Models: So You Want To Be A Platform?
- Six lessons from six months at Shopify - Alex Danco's Newsletter
- On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide For Managers
- How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup
- Being Smart is Not Enough
- Meeting everyone on a new team : Anna Shipman
- Optimize Onboarding
- How software developers can drive business growth
- Black Lives Matter: How the Tech Community Can Provide Support
- Advocating For Racial Equity
- Looking Back on Four Years at The Times - The Startup
- Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “Remote Work”
- @george__mack: Tobi Lutke (@tobi) is the CEO of Shopify, he's one of my favorite CLEAR thinkers
- Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication
- Product for Internal Platforms - Camille Fournier
- Managing 185 people in 40 countries. How they do it.
- Not All Gross Margin Is The Same
- The Most Important Thing
- SaaS Businesses Weather Hard Times by Focusing on Efficient Growth
- Steve Blank The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
- Technical Writing
- The Agile Organisation: Changing our Worldview
- Investing in our Women Leaders in Technology
- Never been promoted? You’re not alone.
- Maintaining platform-product fit.
- The CIO challenge: Modern business needs a new kind of tech leader
2019
- How GitHub’s CTO Architects Engineering Teams That Scale
- A reflection on scaling Agile
- Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.
- Self-serve first: the overlooked but essential paradigm underlying great software companies
- Every business leader should read Charlene Li's "The Disruption Mindset"
- The importance of humility in product management - Thor Mitchell
- When Waterfall Principles Sneak Back Into Agile Workflows
- How We Keep Learning
- One job, many roles. The different skills needed to be a successful CTO
- John Allspaw: “Getting the messy details is critical”
- Choose Boring Technology
- OKRs from a development team’s perspective
- Why CIOs Make The Perfect Corporate Board Members
- The 5 Whys of Organizational Design.
- Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
- "Ethics" and Ethics
- Great developers are raised, not hired – The Principal Developer by Eduards Sizovs
- 3 pieces of advice in Jeff Bezos’ Shareholder Letter
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019
- Writing Docs at Amazon – Noteworthy - The Journal Blog
- The Weekly Email
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Tech Office Sketches
- Rogue Amoeba - The Design of Loopback 2
- Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft’s Developer Division
2018
- Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency
- How to Start Amazon FBA - My FBA Experiment 2018 - Updated Regularly
- Things I learned from working at Shopify
- Open-Sourcing Our Incident Response Training
- Theresa Glomb
- The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup's metrics
- Developers On Call
- How to Write a Technical Paper: Structure and Style of the Epitome of your Research
- The Org Chart Test
- Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
- Mission, Strategy, and Tactics
- What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
- The State of Agile Software in 2018
- Setting an Open Source Strategy // TODO: Talk openly, develop openly
- Survival Tips For Women In Tech | Patricia Aas - Programmer
- All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders
- The full stack product manager
- Product Ownership: Explained
- Product Management Mental Models for Everyone – The Black Box of Product Management
- How “systems thinking” can level up your work — and your life
- Want to scale agile? Don’t. Descale the work first. Achieve big through small.
- Code Review Review is the Manager's Job
- Aaron Longwell | Why Software Development Requires Servant Leaders | Culture Foundry
- How do tools affect culture?
- Week in Review Leadership Comms
- Putting People First: Metrics-Based Onboarding
- Managing Digital: Concepts and Practices
- Working Backwards
- The Players on Your DevSecOps Team
- My framework for one-on-ones
- Agile project management | Top 15 books
- How To Get Your Teammates To Follow Your Lead
- Steve Blank The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
- Meetup Architecture Principles
- Management books in review – Built to Run
- Our management doesn’t – Serious Scrum
- Updating Our Technical Interview
- Incident Response: 6 Best Practices for the Modern Enterprise
- 27 things I learned about hiring in tech from looking for a new engineering management role – very much alive.
- 12 Manager READMEs from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies
- Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
- 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms
- Introducing C.A.R.E. – a simple framework for user onboarding
- Developing SaaS? Forget Scrum, Check Out Kanban and Similar Approaches
- Be a Pal, My Dudes – Mule Design Studio
- Stripe Atlas: Software as a Service, as a business
- 5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
- Why I stopped using roadmaps and switched to GIST instead
- lcamtuf's blog: Progressing from tech to leadership
- The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)
- Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
2017
- Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture
- How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size
- Products Over Projects
- Fly the airplane: Three practices for effective incident response
- 6 Ways Great Companies Use Board Decks to Their Advantage
- Principles of Successful Software Engineering Teams
- Kitchen Soap – Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions
- Stepping Up to the Plate: A Story About Being On-Call
- Testing in production: Yes, you can (and should)
- One Rubric Changed Box's Engineering Performance — Here's How
- These are Google's tools for effective management
- Kubernetes at GitHub
- Ready to Farm for Software Talent?
- Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy —Casey Accidental
- The Rules of Creation
- A quick guide to Stripe’s culture
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- How to Make a Strategic, Value-Driven Business Case for Your DevOps…
- The GitHub Diversity Report
- The Future of Operations: A Developer | Forrester Blogs
- Open Sourcing Iris and Oncall
- Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks
- Five building blocks of a data-driven culture
- The Best Advice We Overheard at First Round's CTO Unconference
- When startups need program management
- Getting Things Right With Checklists – Production Ready
- Transforming Enterprises
- The Three Machines
2016
- re:Work - The five keys to a successful Google team
- 3 Misconceptions About Red Teaming – RedTeam Security
- New to InnerSource? A panel of experts talk through the corporate version of open source
- The New Methodology
- How to be effective as a CTO
- 90 Day Plan for a CTO in a New Job
- 10 Tips for Planning a Tech Conference that Women Will Actually Want to Attend
- Design As Operations, Operations As Design
- Modern Agile
- Analyst Watch: Water-Scrum-fall is the reality of agile
- How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands
- Insightful applications: The next inflection in big data
- Video: How One Chief Product Officer Is Reinventing Product Management At Her Company
- Implications of Tech Stack Complexity for Executives
2015
- Things Software Leaders Should Know
- Scale Up and Delegate Out, with GTD
- The Agile Manager: Corporate Middle Management as an Autopoietic System
- Portfolio for JIRA – project managers edition
- building a culture of innovation
- Driving Change With Paul Johansen, The CTO Of Edmentum
- Keeping project teams strongwith the Health Monitor
- Ship, Sense, and Respond: A Culture of Continuous Learning - Jeff Gothelf keynote
- A shake n' bake recipe for realistic roadmaps with JIRA Portfolio
- Speed as a Habit
- Product Vision Board
- Amazon Jobs | Our Leadership Principles
- Where Do Product Roadmaps Come From?
- Microsoft throws down the gauntlet in business intelligence