Resources for New Managers

Expanding on this comment. So you switched from building things to management. Read these to understand your new role:

• The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
• An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)
• A Manager’s Bill of Responsibilities (and Rights)
• The Seven Habits of One Highly Effective Manager of Managers

Here are a few resources I found useful when making that switch.

Newsletters

• Level Up by Patrick Kua
• Software Lead Weekly
• Tech Manager Weekly by CTO Craft
• Where with all

Blogs

• Rands in Repose
• The Pragmatic Engineer (Disclosure I used to work with Gergely at Skype)
• The Engineering Manager (More disclosure, James is a friend of a friend, we have met a couple of times)
• Elided Branches
• CTO Craft
• Ask a Manager

(Both for newsletters and blogs. RSS is your friend to help keep on top of things. I use Feedbin)

Conference

• LeadDev

Books

• The Manager’s Path

Community

• Rands Leadership Slack

Other Resources

• progression.fyi, a collection of open source progression frameworks
• Increment, particularly How to build a startup engineering team and A guide to distributed teams
• Manager’s Playbook

More Links

• Awesome Leadership and Management
• Engineering Management & Leadership Reads
• Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
• What are some good books for a new CTO to read?

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