This is actually not just about management. It’s about leadership, company culture, productive teams, people skills, etc. Below are some resources that provide insight about these areas.
- How Google Builds Bosses to Order
- Spotify Engineering Culture
- Liz Ryan Human Workplace articles (selection)
- Indie developer Rami Ismail responds to critic of work-life balance in game industry
- Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible by Michael O. Church
- Exit Interview … Don’t Bother by Donn Carr
- This is the Jeff Bezos playbook for preventing Amazon’s demise
- The End of Agile
- Beyond Agile: the Studio Model
- How to Run Inclusive Meetings
- Being Glue – on non-technical “glue work” and the impact it has on promotions
- The Upcoming Remote Work Company Culture War
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
- The maze is in the mouse
- The Wetware Crisis: the Thermocline of Truth
- A Different Kind of Daily Scrum
- Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey (Part 1, Part 2) by Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck
Books
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
- The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder