Awesome Engineering Strategy

🎉 A curated list of awesome things related to Engineering Strategy

Contents

• Resources
  • Books
  • Posts
• Open Engineering Strategies
• Open Architectures
  • Spanish 🇪🇸

Resources

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 list of Patterns to understand and address the Business needs 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. Brining situational awareness on 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.

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
• Flutter in 2022 Strategy - Flutter annual strategy document for 2022.
• Gitpod 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.

Spanish 🇪🇸

• Cómo TWITTER gestiona MILLONES de PETICIONES por SEGUNDO by CodelyTV - La arquitectura de Twitter, como gestina millones de peticiones y que limitaciones tiene.