Software Engineering Management Books
I have read the following recent-ish books about software engineering management (or in a few cases, read the first couple of chapters and just skimmed the rest). For the most part they treat the Silicon Valley model as a given, and if they touch on things like labor rights or what systemic discrimination reveals about how the system actually works, they do so only in passing. If you know of other books that are specifically about managing software development teams, were published after 2010, and grapple with things VCs would rather not talk about, I’d be grateful for pointers.
- Marianne Bellotti: Kill It With Fire (2021)
- Sarah Drasner: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (2022)
- Camille Fournier: The Manager’s Path (2017)
- Claire Hughes Johnson: Scaling People (2023)
- Cate Huston: The Engineering Leader (2024)
- Will Larson: An Elegant Puzzle (2019)
- Will Larson: Staff Engineer (2021)
- Edmond Lau: The Effective Engineer (2015)
- Gergely Orosz: The Software Engineer’s Guidebook (2023)
- Tanya Reilly: The Staff Engineer’s Path (2022)
- Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais: Team Topologies (2019)
- James Stanier: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager (2020)
- Andrew Swerdlow: Tech Leadership (2023)
- Merih Taze: Engineers Survival Guide (2021)
- Peter Wendorff: Politics in Software Development (2022)