Software Engineering Management

On this page, I share resources about Software Engineering Management, which I see as the application of management activities focused on the development and maintenance of software.

Software Engineering Strategy

Recently, I’ve been studying software engineering strategies a lot as part of my development into senior engineering leadership roles.

I was first introduced to the topic in the book An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson (CTO at Carta). By the way, he maintains a comprehensive page on the subject that is worth examining here.

Resources

• The Software Engineering Manager Role: I describe the responsibilities of the role and share resources to help SEMs to develop their skills.

Related Posts

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• Sep 12, 2022 - What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers?. The key traits of top software engineers, based on a comprehensive 2019 research study.

Learning

Books

• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, by Will Larson (CTO at Carta). An excellent book for software engineering managers, one full of actionable strategies and clear examples, which significantly helps me in my work.
• Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. A great book about implementing DevOps to build and scale high performing technology organizations.

Blogs & Newsletters

• The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter and blog, by Gergely Orosz, is a rich and well-curated source of information for software engineering managers and software engineers who want to develop their careers and want to be up to date with the software industry’s best practices and trends.
• The Engineering Manager is written by James Stanier (Director of Engineering at Shopify), author of Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager.
• Addy Osmani blog is written by Addy Osmani, an Engineering Manager at Google.

Podcasts

• Managing Managers: A series of informal conversations with Pat Kua and experienced leaders in tech who manage or have managed other managers.

Communities

• LeadDev is a community of software engineering leaders. They provide a range of content that includes articles and video talks, as well as courses, workshops, in-person and virtual conferences. The community has also a slack workspace where the community meets to exchange ideas and discuss topics.