Books

The following is a list of books commonly recommended to aspiring and experienced engineering managers. They are not strictly engineering-related books. Many focus on leadership, management, and human behavior. These are not an official endorsement by the project maintainers but are provided as a resource.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier
Becoming a Technical Leader by GM Weinberg
Coaching Habit by Bungay Stanier
Continuous discovery habit by Teresa Torres
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron Mcmillan and Al Switzler
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman
An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
The Empowered Manager by Peter Block
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Facts and fallacies of software engineering by Robert L. Glass
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
Flawless Consulting by Peter Block
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein
Humble Leadership by Edgar Schein
If You Can’t Measure It… Maybe You Shouldn’t by Carsten Busch
Impact Players by Liz Wiseman
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
The manager’s path by Camille Fournier
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall
Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks Jr.
Peter principle by Laurence J. Peter
Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Resilient management by Lara Hogan
Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Software Estimation by Steve Mcconnell
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Stewardship by Peter Block
Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet