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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Managing people is difficult wherever you work.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. Give feedback for growth.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Katie: Absolutely, and it’s really fascinating how, in a lot of cases where you see Harvard Business Review case studies of things that have gone really horribly wrong in organizations. When it gets hard personally, I like to think about “Well, what would I want to see in an engineering manager?”