- 1 copy per person of The Manager's Path
- 1 copy per person of New Manager Care Package
- 1 copy per person of How F*cked Up Is Your Management
- 1 set per person of 1:1 Starter Pack
- At least 1 set of 1:1 Manager Pack
- High Output Management by Andrew Grove
- Peopleware by Timothy Lister and Tom DeMarco
- Accelerate by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Jean Greaves and Travis Bradberry
- Leading Snowflakes by Oren Ellenbogen
- Engineering Managers
- Software Lead Weekly Slack group (join newsletter first)
- Meet weekly as a group for 1.5 hours (could be split up into 2 sessions)
- At each meeting:
- Discuss the latest reading
- Have an open forum about issues currently facing the teams (what's been a leadership challenge over the past week?)
- Pull a card from the 1:1 Manager Pack and dicusss each person's answer
- Between each meeting:
- Ask at least one question per week in a Slack group to get advice from others
- Start with The Manager's Path. Read 1 chapter per week
- Move on to Resilient Management. Read 1 chapter per week
- Read a few essays per week from HFUIYM
- Pick further books as a group