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A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers
Will Larson
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Will Larson
@Lethain
- "What should I measure when the CEO asks for engineering metrics?" is probably the most frequently recurring eng leadership question, and connects into a larger, somewhat nebulous topic: how should you measure engineering organizations? Some notes! lethain.com/measuring-engi…
- This has been a terrible, staggering year in so many ways. It's also been a disproportionately interesting and meaningful year for me professionally, and I wanted to share some of what I learned in 2017 about engineering and infrastructure management.
- In preparation for starting a new role next week, I had some convos with folks in those roles, did some research and have written up what you should focus on for your first 90 days as a VP Engineering or CTO
- Congrats to @whereistanya for writing this excellent book into existence! Super excited for this book and all the not-yet-written books expanding on the staff+ role
- Pulled together the "work related" books I read over the past four years. With ⭐ next to the ones I still think about somewhat frequently! lethain.com/books-2022/
- Early edition of "Staff Engineer" is available tomorrow. If you didn't buy "An Elegant Puzzle," this is *your* chance to get premium typos, grammatical errors, and diagrams with confusingly reversed arrows, but about Staff-plus engineering instead of mgmt
- If I had to pick one story had summed up my early career in Silicon Valley, it would have to be the ill-fated launch of Digg v4, sometimes thoughtfully described as the worst relaunch of a product, ever. Now you too can read the story:
- What are best resources on becoming/being/operating as staff-plus engineer? Looking for more stuff like (thread):
- Last proof copy arrived and the cover and QR codes are all looking good (made the cover in Omnigraffle, lol)
- If you were interviewing a bunch of staff/principal/distinguished engineers, what questions would you ask them?
- Starting a new engineering executive role on Monday. What’s your best advice? Stories preferred!
- Once again, I am coming to you with a soup-to-nuts writeup on engineering strategy. Wrote an example eng strat, structuring strat in general, structuring eng strategy in particular, and how to evaluate specific strategy components. It's a lot. lethain.com/eng-strategies/
