# jesselpalmer/the-engineering-managers-booklist

Books for people who are or aspire to manage/lead team(s) of software engineers

Repository: https://github.com/jesselpalmer/the-engineering-managers-booklist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/the-engineering-managers-booklist
License: CC-BY-4.0
License Family: other
Topics: leadership, culture, management, engineering, resources, software-engineering, software-development, list, readling, reading-list, engineering-management, engineering-leadership, books, booklist, lists, the-engineering-manager-series
Last push: 2024-01-27T18:53:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3620, "days_push": 949, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1690, forks 173 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:22.515524+00:00)

## What it is
A curated list of books for people who manage or aspire to lead teams of software engineers, from team leads to CTOs. It is a community-maintained reading list rather than software.

## Use cases
- find books on engineering management
- reading list for new engineering managers
- books for aspiring tech leads
- leadership book recommendations for software managers
- resources for moving from engineer to manager
- management books for VPs of engineering and CTOs

## When to choose
- you are a new or aspiring engineering manager looking for curated reading
- you want community-vetted book recommendations on engineering leadership and culture
- you lead or mentor team leads and want a shared resource list

## When to avoid
- you need software tooling rather than book recommendations
- you want formal training courses or interactive learning instead of books
- you need management advice outside of software engineering contexts

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, hr
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: booklist, engineering-management, leadership, reading-list, awesome-list

## Member repositories
- jesselpalmer/the-engineering-managers-booklist (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:22.515524+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:38:21.965949+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jesselpalmer/the-engineering-managers-booklist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:22.515524+00:00, sha 648329375967)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.