Awesome Engineering Strategy 
🎉 A curated list of awesome things related to Engineering Strategy
Engineering Strategy is a composition of resources such books, posts, templates, learning materials, and open engineering strategies made by the community and companies.
Contributions are welcome! Check out the contribution guidelines for adding items to the list.
Contents
Books
- Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture by Vaughn Vernon, Tomasz Jaskula - A set of strategic patterns on addressing business capabilities with a monolith and microservices approach.
- Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy by Eben Hewitt - A set of business tools and patterns from an engineering point of view.
- Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson - How is the role of the staff engineer and how this role addresses the engineering strategy.
- Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud by Jonathan Allen, Thomas Blood, Werner Vogels, Adrian Cockcroft, Mark Schwartz - A high-level book on business strategy, people, culture, data and architecture and how this drives cloud velocity.
- UN Global Platform Handbook on Information Technology Strategy by Mark Craddock, Rob McLellan, Simon Wardley, Matjaz Jug, Jan Murdoch - A set of wardley maps on IT. Bringing situational awareness to different contexts.
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Understand the core components of a strategy.
Posts
- Designing an Engineering Strategy Post Series by Aleix Morgadas - How to build an engineering strategy from 0.
- Engineering strategy by Will Larson - What's an engineering strategy.
- Defining a Tech Strategy by Sarah Taraporewalla - A high-level guideline on defining a tech strategy.
- Tech Strategy: You Need it, But What is it? by Nick Tune - In-depth reflection of what is a tech strategy.
- 🗺🧭 Using Wardley Mapping to understand why Google made G. Appointments to compete in the Calendly market by Aleix Morgadas - Using wardley mapping to understand google appointments.
- What is a Strategy? Why do you need one in Tech? - Introduction to what is a strategy for tech.
Templates
- Engineering Strategy Notion Template - A template with the core elements of an engineering strategy, the high-stake problem, the understanding phase, the direction, and coherent actions.
Open Engineering Strategies
Open Engineering Strategies section aims to provide a relevant set of public available Engineering Strategies so we can learn from each other.
- Community Startup by Aleix Morgadas - Prove Product Market Fit with an MVP.
- GitLab Strategy - Complete GitLab three-year strategy. Containing direction, customer focus, and team dynamics.
- Flutter in 2022 Strategy - Flutter annual strategy document for 2022.
- Gitpod Strategy - Gitpod purpose, vision, and strategy.
- Qatium Product Market Fit - An engineering strategy when the product verifies product market fit and the engineering isn't evolving the practices to match the new product needs.
Open Architectures
- Gitpod Architecture - Gitpod architecture aligned with their strategy.