Programs are more complicated than projects which are more complicated than milestones. Instead of projects, focus on milestonesMost engineering organizations focus on delivering projects. You can get better results by focusing on milestones instead.
Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...
Open Source Goal Setting — Open Tech Strategies | Blog
Treat this list as a menu, not a buffet. Pick three items and make them your high priority targets. Focus on effects that connect best to your strategy, and, ultimately, to your organization's mission. You need to know where you want to go before you can chart a course to get there. We've broken the goals into three categories, but you can mix and match across or within categories as you please.
Moving On From Agile Engineering | Built In
Nineteen years after the Agile Manifesto was formalized, agile engineering is still on the tips of tongues, from everyday developers to corporate executives. Mary Poppendieck, however, is ready for the next thing.
A Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While software development practices constantly change, there will always be a tier of truly top engineering teams who stand above…
Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook, and Netflix
After spending over a decade in engineering leadership roles at some of the world’s most chaotic innovation factories—Google, Facebook, and Netflix—I’ve learned one universal truth: scaling e…
How to not screw up your product strategy | Jade Rubick - Engineering Leadership
An overview of common mistakes people make while developing a product strategy, tips for creating a successful strategy, and how to communicate and execute on a product strategy.
The Engineering Leadership Report 2026
Our survey of 600 engineering leaders exploring how the role is evolving, where the challenges lie, and what the future holds for the job.
How to build a roadmap in 3½ steps | HackerNoon
<em>When done right, the product roadmap reduces uncertainty about the future and keeps product teams focused on the highest priority product initiatives. But how to build it effectively?</em>
Adopt and scale Team Topologies: platform-as-a-product, templates, more. — Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value
Accelerate value with Team Topologies: measure cognitive load, define team boundaries, apply inverse Conway, readiness assessments, and more for fast delivery.
Bloom’s Taxonomy – Agile Learning
Design Sprints
A structured, time-boxed process for rapidly exploring problems, generating ideas, and validating solutions with real users.
Engineering managers have a new job description
Why engineering managers are expected to be hands-on again and how AI tools are making it possible to stay technically sharp while still leading.
Project Planning and Management Resources | TeamGantt
Explore free project management resources from TeamGantt, including practical guides, templates, tools, videos, podcasts, and construction resources.