97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.

Managing people is hard, and the industry as a whole is bad at it. Many managers lack the experience, training, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. From mentoring interns to working in senior management, this book will take you through the stages of management and provide actionable advice on how to approach the obstacles you’ll encounter as a technical manager.

A few of the 97 things you should know:

• "Three Ways to Be the Manager Your Report Needs" by Duretti Hirpa
• "The First Two Questions to Ask When Your Team Is Struggling" by Cate Huston
• "Fire Them!" by Mike Fisher
• "The 5 Whys of Organizational Design" by Kellan Elliott-McCrea
• "Career Conversations" by Raquel Vélez
• "Using 6-Page Documents to Close Decisions" by Ian Nowland
• "Ground Rules in Meetings" by Lara Hogan

• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
• Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
• BPF Performance Tools (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
• The Unicorn Project
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
• The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom From The Experts