#Team Management
6 articles
Designing Engineering Management as a "Deck"
Don't let management practices—1on1s, OKRs, review rules—pile up as a loose collection. A way to design them as one system (a deck) around the quality and reproducibility of decisions, and the conditions that turn a practice into an outcome.
Guide for Engineering Executives: Technical Leadership to Drive Organizational Success
A review of a guide for engineering executives. A book on the mindset and practice of leading a technical organization as a VP of Engineering or CTO. It covers hiring, org design, technical strategy, and alignment with executives, centered on running the whole organization as a system.
The Work of an Engineering Manager: How to Become the Manager Your Team Needs
A review of The Work of an Engineering Manager. A book on practical methods for making a team function as an EM. It prescribes remedies for the real challenges EMs face, such as 1:1s, feedback, hiring, and culture, plus delegation that separates accountability from execution.
Leading Engineering Teams: A Practical Guide for Individual Contributors and Managers Learned from Google
A review of Leading Engineering Teams. Drawing on Google's engineering culture, it covers how to lead teams effectively from both IC and manager perspectives. It systematically addresses topics rooted in daily work such as career ladders, code review, and handling technical debt, useful from senior engineers to EMs.
What is Team Topologies? How to Structure Engineering Teams
Learn Team Topologies—the four team types (stream-aligned, platform, enabling, complicated-subsystem) and three interaction modes for effective software delivery organization.
Why Software Development Teams Should Define MVV
Understand MVV definition for software teams, mission clarity, vision alignment, and team personality development.