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Engineering management
119 links saved from 2011 to 2026; 98 with a note, 78 in a Weekly Thing.
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- lethain.com 11, medium.com 5, blog.pragmaticengineer.com 4, charity.wtf 4, firstround.com 4
2026
2025
- "Good engineering management" is a fad
- Measuring Engineering Productivity
- Forward Deployed Engineers
- No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers"
- In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
- The Future of Engineering Services: Building and Measuring Human-AI Teams
- The Product Engineer
- Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams
- Should managers still code? - by James Stanier
- Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
2024
2023
- Engineering Management Checklist
- How GitHub Engineering communicates
- Takeaways From a New Elon Musk Biography: Ukraine, Trump and More
- “Healthy tension” between Product and Engineering? No thanks, I’d prefer alignment.
- The Engineering executive’s role in hiring.
- How to plan as an engineering executive.
- Advice For Engineers, From A Manager
- The Alternative To Agile Coaches
- Meetings for an effective eng organization.
- Getting a job as an engineering executive.
- Measuring an engineering organization.
- Eraser – The whiteboard for engineering teams
2022
2021
- Holiday Book Recommendations for Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and Product Managers
- Executive Engagement
- My thoughts about the Principal role
- The Types of Product Team Organizational Structures
- A reading list for new engineering managers
- Senior Engineers Build Consensus : hyperbo.la
- The 5 Common Mistakes Of New Engineering Managers
- OKAY | What Remote Work Really Does To Your Engineering Productivity
- OKAY | Engineering productivity can be measured - just not how you'd expect
- My Engineering Axioms
2020
- School of SRE
- Write five, then synthesize: good engineering strategy is boring.
- Choosing the Management Track
- What is expected of a Engineering Manager? · Rodrigo Flores's Corner
- Being VP of Engineering is harder than being CEO - Translating Engineering to Executives
- A primer on engineering delivery metrics
- Lessons Learned: Giving Feedback as an Engineering Manager
- Scaling an Engineering Team from Zero to Infinity - Arush
- Staff engineer archetypes.
- How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
- Surviving the Organisational Side Quest
- paperplanes. On Drafting an Engineering Strategy
- Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.
2019
- The Product-Minded Software Engineer
- Developing New Engineers
- 7 steps to building an engineering competency matrix
- SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team
- Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
- 17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager
- 44 engineering management lessons
- Jessie Frazelle's Blog: Defining a Distinguished Engineer
- Camille Fournier on Scaling, Structure, and Growing as an Engineering Manager
- On being an Engineering Manager
- On Being A Principal Engineer
- Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you
- More PM Problem Areas
- Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder
2018
- Stripe Atlas: Guide to scaling engineering organizations
- Three Sales Mistakes Software Engineers Make
- The next career step for Senior Software Engineers (that isn’t management)
- The Observation Deck » Assessing software engineering candidates
- Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing - aka RFCs
- What's a senior engineer's job?
- Engineering Productivity – Camille Fournier
- Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality
- Engineering Ladders at Meetup – Making Meetup
- Sizing engineering teams
- How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers
- The New Best Engineer
- Flavors of Engineering Management · [Thinking inside a large box];
- Coraline Ada Ehmke — Not Applicable: What Your Job Post Is Really Saying
2017
- How to be a 10x engineer: Business value for technologists – Striving for greatness
- Kitchen Soap – On Being A Senior Engineer
- Tracking compensation and promotion inequity
- Introductory bullshit detection for non-technical managers
- Engineering Blogs of Companies
- Should your Engineering Lead be fired?
- The Architect Elevator — Visiting the upper floors
2016
2015
- Elided Branches: The Manager as Debugger
- Onboarding New Engineers: Pros And Cons Of Common Strategies
- Building LinkedIn's New Engineering Bootcamp
- This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
- What does a VP of Engineering do, again?
- Defining a High Performance Team: It’s not just about Structure
- The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise
- What I Learned Scaling Engineering Teams Through Euphoria and Horror
- 6 Engineering Roles to Boost Development Velocity
- Sharing Our Engineering Ladder — RTR Dress Code
- This Is What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like
- Lessons learned from scaling a product team
- The One Cost Engineers and Product Managers Don't Consider