staff engineer leadership beyond the management track by will larson

Both in the hard things like better financial results and accomplishing group goals. Like the causal relationship between engineering practices and company outcomes. But I also found a lot of interesting information that I didn’t expect. I was procrastinating on it because in my mind I thought I’d already be familiar with its message. Hence even as an individual contributor, this knowledge is useful. Nevertheless, working in a badly set up team is a world of difference from working in a well set Reading lists, this one is geared towards a I believe the lessons are theoretically sound and should applyĪcross companies and industries. Now I’mĪdapting and publishing them for a wider audience. To save others from doing so I’ve written several internal guides. In my time at Bolt, I’ve been involved with managing, bootstrapping, and reorganizing my fair So it’s important to have a “correct” definition for them. There are a lot of ways to mess things up. But getting them right is far from trivial. Teams and team formation are a fundamental part of any organization. There’s a lot of wisdom in here for sure.

I was not expecting much coming in, but was blown away by the book. This is my review of The Hard Thing About Hard Things. And getting this right is just as important and

Rather, they are part of a larger organization. Teams in companies don’t exist in a vacuum. This is a book on management written by Michael Lopp, who is a well known internet writer on the software industry. So after much procrastination I’m putting it on the blog for more folks to enjoy. Turns out the resulting doc has a wider applicability. I thought it worthwhile to lay down more concretely the expectations on managers in Bolt engineering. All of us are pretty new to job, and I saw a lot of common points of confusion pop up. The following is a repost of an internal training I did for managers in my team at Bolt.

Staff engineer leadership beyond the management track by will larson