Stdlib: A library of frameworks, templates, and guides for technical leadership
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- Clearer delegation practices can lead to smoother incident response.
- Agile teams can manage unplanned work during sprints with practical strategies.
- People, capabilities, and team dynamics drive successful engineering teams, not just processes.
- Technology leaders should adopt a business mindset for strategic outcomes.
- AI Impact Report 2025 explores challenges for early-career engineers in AI-driven coding.
- Measuring team performance remains a major challenge for engineering leaders.
- Working smarter, not harder, achieves high velocity.
- Normalizing awkwardness through practical rituals.
- Treating engineers as interchangeable leads to flawed decisions; individual recognition is key.
- Technical leaders should engage with organizational politics.
- Software teams tend to over-engineer solutions; strategies to avoid this.
- Software requires maintenance for long-term usability.
- Atomic Habits teaches small changes for transformative results.
- A novel illustrating DevOps principles through a failing project rescue.
- Mind the Gap Model identifies challenges in moving from current to desired states.
- Three engineers share generative AI uses in software development.
- Guide to writing clean, maintainable code and adopting craftsmanship principles.
- DevOps novel on leadership, collaboration, and process improvement.
- Accelerate explains improving software delivery performance.
- Continuous Delivery guide to automating build, test, and deployment.
- Value Flywheel concept for continuous improvement and performance.
- Team Topologies for structuring teams to enable fast flow of change.
- Embedding continuous improvement into everyday work for technical leaders.
- Domain-driven design principles for managing complex software projects.
- Extreme Programming guide for improving software quality and responsiveness.
- Building strong engineering culture and effective leadership practices.
- Integrating privacy into startups without sacrificing speed.
- Leading through layoffs with practical tips for recovery and productivity.
- Questioning common metrics for measuring engineering productivity.
- Techniques for leaders to clarify thinking and overcome obstacles.
- Ebook on product strategy with structure, examples, and guidance.
- Handling challenging individuals in group settings.
- Avoiding conflict leads to organizational stagnation.
- Engineering enablement function to improve developer productivity.
- Improving escalation processes and accountability during incidents.
- Scientific insights on stress and motivation for technical leaders.
- Five questions to evaluate and improve strategic thinking.
- Dropbox framework for career progression and competencies.
- Peopleware on creating productive software teams through human aspects.
- Framework for building high-performing engineering teams.
- Drive: autonomy, mastery, and purpose as key motivators.
- Techniques for navigating tough conversations and resolving conflict.
- Bowling alley analogy for creating environments where team members excel.
- Introduction to systems thinking for better decision-making.
- Uncovering hidden work and improving flow for knowledge-work teams.
- Stdlib collection: community-curated resources for technical leadership.