Software Manager

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager. 

Clean Architecture is an essential book for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager - and for every programmer who must execute someone else’s designs. 

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness. 

Welcome to the Fourth Edition of the Technical Program Manager’s Guide to Success. Writing this edition feels like coming full circle. When I published the first edition, the TPM role was still new and undefined in many organisations. Readers told me how the book gave them clarity, helped them prepare for interviews, and built their confidence as they stepped into the role. That feedback has driven every update since. The world has changed, and so has the craft. Technical Program Management today still means tracking projects and applying frameworks, but the harder work is leading through...

Are you a software engineer dreaming of the CTO title? Already a CTO looking to level up? This is the playbook you've been waiting for. THE UNICORN CTO is the most comprehensive guide ever written on technology leadership—packed with 95,000 words of battle-tested wisdom from the trenches of building platforms serving millions of users. 📊 WHAT'S INSIDE: ✓ 35 in-depth chapters covering EVERY aspect of the CTO role ✓ 250+ insider tips you won't find in any other book ✓ 30+ real-world case studies (successes AND failures) ✓ Proven frameworks: STAR-L storytelling, CTO Portfolio ...

Does your Engineering team talk about Kubernetes, instances, regions, autoscaling, or serverless, leaving you struggling to understand how these decisions impact your product? Cloud infrastructure powers virtually every digital product. It determines how an application runs, what happens when traffic increases, how the system responds to failures, and how much it costs to keep everything running. And many of these decisions directly affect Product Management. Cloud & Infrastructure for Product Managers explains the fundamentals of modern infrastructure from a product perspective, using ...

Use this book as your guide to becoming a Product Manager and landing your first Product Management role! This book will provide an actionable roadmap for those who aspire to a career in the rewarding world of Product Management. Product Management is an impactful role that encourages creativity, collaboration, deep learning, and autonomy. With dedication and perseverance, you can develop the skills necessary to become an exceptional product manager. In this book you will learn more about what this role entails, about how to hone skills required, and most importantly, how to apply these ...

The primary goal of this book is to help existing or future QA analysts, testers and leads to build a solid foundation in Quality Assurance and Testing in order to excel in their job or be able to successfully pass the interview and secure the QA job. The structure of this course is very simple yet comprehensive and powerful and covers all the knowledge necessary and topics for Testing and Quality Assurance. This book covers the following topics: Software Development Lifecycle, testing methodologies, testing methods, types of software testing, manual versus automated testing as well as ...

Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 days, or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of the Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined.

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. 

Unlock the Secrets to Managing Software Development! Building Better Software provides clear, actionable insights to help you lead your teams more effectively, ensuring that the software your team creates is well-designed, robust, and thoroughly tested. Author Martin J. Fenelon breaks down the complexities of software development into simple, actionable steps that project managers can follow, no matter their technical background. Discover how to guide your team confidently through every phase of the project lifecycle, regardless of delivery methodology. Learn how to identify warning signs, ...

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more. This audiobook follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers.

Scrum is the most widely adopted Agile framework in the world. It is easy to understand and yet, difficult to master. Having trained thousands of professionals across the world and helped them implement Scrum in their organizations, the authors provide practical, succinct, and effective answers to 50 of the most common questions about Scrum. This book is for Scrum practitioners, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Agile Coaches who want to refine their expertise and to take Scrum to the next level. Includes an interview with Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum Sprint Your Way to Scrum will ...

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With ninety-seven short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.

Most products don’t fail at launch. They fail in the thinking that comes before it. Every year, teams spend months building products nobody needs, launching features nobody finds, and shipping roadmaps nobody trusts. The Art of Building Products is the playbook for doing it differently, written by a product and program leader for everyone who builds: product managers, engineers, designers, founders, and the people who run the work. No theory for theory’s sake. Every chapter opens with a real situation: the context, the numbers that mattered, and why it played out the way it did. Then it...

¿Cuántas veces has escuchado que una funcionalidad “ya está terminada” y, aun así, los usuarios todavía no pueden utilizarla? Entre un ticket completado y una funcionalidad disponible para los usuarios ocurren muchas más cosas de las que parece: el código debe integrarse, generar una build, superar tests, recorrer una pipeline, desplegarse en distintos environments y, finalmente, lanzarse. Para un Product Manager, entender ese recorrido cambia por completo muchas conversaciones con Engineering. CI/CD y releases para Product Managers explica, desde cero y sin necesidad de ...

Do You Know What Gets Tested Before a Feature Goes Live? Can You Tell When a Failed Test Is a Real Problem, Which Bugs Matter Most, or Whether a Release Is Worth the Risk? As a Product Manager, you're expected to make decisions about releases, priorities, and product quality. But when Engineering reports failing tests, QA raises concerns, or critical bugs appear just before launch, how confidently can you assess the situation? Software quality directly affects user experience, product reliability, customer trust, and your team's ability to keep delivering new features. Understanding testing...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS Do you have a great app idea but no coding skills? ‘How to Make an App Business’ contains no get-rich-quick talk, but just exactly what you need to go from idea to app business. ‘How to Make an App Business’ guides you all the way from idea to launching your app and making a business out of it. The book covers proven and essential steps to build a killer app, get your app off the ramp with solid marketing, and make a viable business. From this book you will learn how to: Build and test early prototypes before starting programming ...

¿Cuánto está condicionando la deuda técnica la evolución de tu producto? Las nuevas funcionalidades tardan cada vez más en desarrollarse, Engineering advierte de riesgos técnicos y algunas mejoras aparentemente sencillas terminan convirtiéndose en proyectos complejos. Detrás de estas situaciones puede encontrarse la deuda técnica acumulada durante la evolución del software. Para un Product Manager, comprender la deuda técnica es fundamental para tomar decisiones sobre prioridades, inversiones y roadmap. Sus consecuencias afectan a la velocidad de desarrollo, la calidad del ...