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Tech Leadership
A curated collection of resources related to tech leadership
Highlighted Articles
- Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods
- Code review in remote teams
- Surviving being senior (tech) management.
- Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes
- Technical Leadership: Getting Started
- How should deadlines be used in software engineering?
- The Brutal Truth About Why Being a Leader Is So Hard
Other Articles
- 5 Tips for Being an Effective Tech Lead
- 10 more things you need to do to succeed as a Tech Lead
- A Better Path to Decency: Will tech lead the way?
- Agile Practices of Effective Tech Leads
- A Primer on Giving Critical Feedback
- Becoming a Tech Lead: How I’ve Balanced Coding with Coaching
- Everyone can be a leader
- For the first time, you’ve been chosen as a tech lead. Now What?
- From Developer to Tech Lead — Making the Leap into Technical Management
- Giving better feedback for better performance
- Great Leaders Don’t Juggle Priorities
- Good Tech Lead, Bad Tech Lead
- Help Your Team Do More Without Burning Out
- How I Convince Myself to Lead: Accountability and Authority
- How Leaders Can Get Honest, Productive Feedback
- How to Exhibit Leadership as an Individual Contributor
- How to interview engineers
- How to Work Faster in a Remote Team
- Introverts as leaders briefly
- Is ‘Tech Lead’ an actual role on the team?
- Maslow's pyramid of code review
- Rule One of Management: First, Do No Harm
- Should You Choose a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager Role?
- The Definition of a Tech Lead
- The Effective Tech Lead is a 100x Engineer
- The Problem with Tech Leads
- The Science of Speaking is the Art of Being Heard
- Three Common Mistakes of the First Time Tech Lead
- What does a VP of Engineering do, again?
- What I Learned While Becoming a Tech Lead
Must Read Books for all engineers and engineering managers
Other books of interest
- Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
- Leading Snowflakes
- Talking with Tech Leads
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
- An Elegant Puzzle - Systems of Engineering Management
- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
- Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management
- Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
- Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- Domain-Driven Design Quickly
- Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
- Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
- High Output Management
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
- Mistakes were made but not by me
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- Peopleware
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
- The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
- The Dichotomy of Leadership
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Conferences
- Tech Leader Summit
- The Lead Developer
- 0111 CTO Conference
- CTO Summit Series
- CTO World Congress
- Chief Technology Officer Summit
- CTO Summit
Meetups
- CTO School
- Denver Leadership Meetup
- Female Tech Leaders
- Lead in Tech: A Meetup For Future Tech Leaders
- Leaders in Tech - Reading
- Leading in Tech
- Louisville Tech Leaders Meetup
- Portland Tech Leadership Meetup
- San Francisco Engineering Leadership Community (SFELC)
- Sydney Technology Leaders
- Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community
- Stockholm Engineering Leadership Meetup
- Tech Leads IL
- The Lead Developer Meetup - Austin
- The Lead Developer Meetup - Berlin
- The Lead Developer Meetup - London
- The Lead Developer Meetup - New York
- Tech Leads NW
- Vilnius Tech Leads
- #TeamLeadTO