Tech Insights

<p><em>open-sourced handbook for leading engineering teams</em> </p>

<p>List of resources on leading people and being a manager </p>

<p>The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth by Raylene Yung </p>

<p>What is emergent leadership and how to encourage it </p>

<p>precious lessons on management and leadership from Julie Zhuo, Facebook’s VP of Design </p>

<p>Create and track OKR objectives and results with this simple tool </p>

<p>summary with many important practices for OKRs in companies, has a checklist and common mistakes by the end worth checking out as well </p>

<p>When should engineering managers write code? </p>

<p>How to hold your team accountable </p>

<p>how Google uses OKRs </p>

<p>Fixed-Everything: Agile? </p>

<p>hiring great people is not all it takes to build a great team. here are a few solid strategies: </p>

<p>Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model: </p>

<p>how to deal with the challenges of becoming a design leader: </p>

<p>Growing a feature team using lanes </p>

<p>"If you want to have stretch goals, you better have open ears" - great interview with Amy Edmondson, who first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams: </p>

<p>Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings </p>

<p>healthy ways to give negative feedback </p>

<p>the pros &amp; cons of group chat, and how to make the best use of it </p>

<p>A case against presence status in online work tools </p>

<p>how designers turn into design leaders: </p>

<p>your company’s culture is who you hire, fire, &amp; Promote </p>

<p>Benefits of having technical people working on sales and focusing on helping the customer </p>

<p>Great article about employee retention: </p>