💡 Content for engineering leaders
To become an influential and successful leader, you must focus on multiple areas, not always technology-related. On this page, you can find all content ever published on Practical Engineering Management. Pick what you need the most at the moment, or open a few links randomly - I promise, each piece will help you become a better engineering leader.
The content is organized into four key categories:
How-Tos - actionable articles where I share some ideas on how to implement the most important concepts of engineering leadership.
Templates & Frameworks - materials that are ready to use in your work + some concepts and examples
Reflections - food for thoughts that will inspire you to see your work from a different angle.
One-bites - short articles with concepts that enrich your experience.
Templates & Frameworks
(⭐️ Top pick) The Problem Solving Framework
(⭐️ Top pick) Engineering Strategy Framework
(⭐️ Top pick) First Ten 1:1s for Engineering Leaders
(⭐️ Top pick) Leader's Week - how to maximize your weekly impact
How-Tos
(⭐️ Top pick) New to Engineering Leadership? Let Me Help
(⭐️ Top pick) Expectation Management - Compensation, Performance Review, Career Ladder
(⭐️ Top pick) Mastering the Feedback
(⭐️ Top pick) How to Build Remote-First Culture
(⭐️ Top pick) Product Analytics for Engineering Leaders
(⭐️ Top pick) Practical solutions to track your goals
Series of Articles
Series: Better Engineering Leader, a 30-days course.
Intro to the series: Be Better Engineering Leader With Practical Engineering Management
Series: The Role of Engineering in Product Model Transformation
Series: Transforming Organization with Slowification, Simplification and Amplification:
Reflections
(⭐️ Top pick) Why Do Companies Drag Us Back to the Office?
(⭐️ Top pick) Do You Need More Testers or Better Tests?
(⭐️ Top pick) How to Manage Gen-Z
(⭐️ Top pick) Do companies need fewer engineering managers or better engineering managers?
(⭐️ Top pick) What Engineering Leaders Can Learn from Stripe's BFCM Product Dashboard
What Engineering Leader Can Learn from Product Model at Spotify?
By 2030 tech talent shortage will reach 4 million unfilled positions
One bites
(⭐️ Top pick) Entropy and Inertia in Engineering Leadership
(⭐️ Top pick) A crisis is an opportunity for change
(⭐️ Top pick) Four Factors Essential to the Success of Any Product
(⭐️ Top pick) 5 Characteristics of a High-performing Team Leader
DORA 2024 Highlights - Top Takeaways for Engineering Leaders
Key Insights for Engineering Leaders from DORA 2023 research
PEM Blog
Here you can find long-form articles published on the Practical Engineering Management blog:
(⭐️ Top pick) How to Build Engineering Strategy
(⭐️ Top pick) How to Be a Better Software Engineering Leader
(⭐️ Top pick) How to lead a team of senior engineers
(⭐️ Top pick) Engineering Leadership: Tools and Techniques for a Successful 2024
(⭐️ Top pick) Go back to coding, engineering leader
(⭐️ Top pick) Simple data tracking solutions for engineering leaders
Senior software engineer, these skills are expected from you
Regular software engineer, these skills are expected from you
Junior software engineer, these skills are required from you
Things to keep in mind when working multiple years in a single company
What tech leader can learn from direct reports’ performance reviews