Massive effort, Nicola, to create such a detailed catalogue. This provides a clear path for everyone who would like to dive into the journey of Engineering Leadership.
Thank you Nicola for sharing this insightful post. Really love it. Would you suggest any book to start for the leadership section? I am not sure if I want to step into tech leadership role but would definitely want to polish my leadership skills, useful even for an IC!
What a massive article. I have a lot of free content + a free guide+ a not free published book out on how I became a data analyst / how others can follow my path so I have seen first hand how creating something like this is SUCH an effort (but now you can point every DM and request for help here!).
Im going to have a good think about how I can apply this to myself as a data analyst at about 1.5yrs into the field. I can see many of the concepts will apply right over. I have been looking for a roadmap like this for months!
This is a great list. I would say one thing to avoid is the 1 inch deep and mile wide scenario. You have lots of content - it won’t come to a student in a year. You have to build and test and refactor and test again to feel it. You have to jump in a pool to swim. You need to jump into the ocean to scuba dive.
Most master courses today are firehoses of information where you come out maybe remembering 20% of the stuff. Nothing stuck because all you did was read or build toy products.
I would tell anybody, do this course because Milan did the hard work and created a plan. Yes that will take a year. Just start getting your hands dirty. It is very hard to be an engineering leader when you cannot read your teams code. Yes you can be a suitable ui or product manager but not an engineering leader in one year.
Yes use ChatGPT / it is not intelligence it is automation.
You cannot go wrong with Milan work; he is taking you to the water ; now you have to drink it.
Oh if you have spent your last 10 years working your way up to a senior engineer then yes this material will get you to an engineer manager in a year. Just anything you have not done; get dirty.
I love to play in the mud. Only way to plant a a seedling that growns into a tree that gives you fruit every season - that is a product.
I like that you put it in a 12-month roadmap. Most people will be overwhelmed with the amount of resources, but we underestimate what we can do in a year
Thank you for the mention Nicola! All great tips here.
Welcome Milan! Much deserved!
Massive effort, Nicola, to create such a detailed catalogue. This provides a clear path for everyone who would like to dive into the journey of Engineering Leadership.
Thank you for listing Perspectiveship!
Yeah it was an effort Michal, but I'm happy about how it came out 🙂
Thanks for your support!
Thank you for the mention Nicola! Definitely a great list of resources to level up!
Much deserved mention Gregor, thanks for sharing such great content!
Thanks a lot for the mention 🔥
Well deserved Alexandre! 🙂
Just a reminder: don't get overloaded by the amount of content on here.
Find
- your area of biggest impact
- your area of biggest resistance
- your biggest gap in your social circle
Focus on areas where two or more of these criteria meet. That's enough for a next step!
Huge thanks Nicola for including me and 🔮 Crafting Tech Teams this.
I would appreciate your participation in my research survey.
https://forms.gle/DaT18FXNgxw9P5iCA
Thank you Nicola for sharing this insightful post. Really love it. Would you suggest any book to start for the leadership section? I am not sure if I want to step into tech leadership role but would definitely want to polish my leadership skills, useful even for an IC!
This is definitely a bookmark worthy post!! Thank you for including my newsletter 🙏🏼
Amazing effort, Nicola and I appreciate you doing this.
Also, thank you for the mention.
Thank you for the amazing road map Nicola (and the resources too), you have made the journey to Engineering Leader easier 😃
What a massive article. I have a lot of free content + a free guide+ a not free published book out on how I became a data analyst / how others can follow my path so I have seen first hand how creating something like this is SUCH an effort (but now you can point every DM and request for help here!).
Im going to have a good think about how I can apply this to myself as a data analyst at about 1.5yrs into the field. I can see many of the concepts will apply right over. I have been looking for a roadmap like this for months!
This is great stuff Nicola, direct to my bookmarks to digest slowly.
The Clean Architecture is one of impactful tech books in my life, and I dedicated a small post about 👇
https://open.substack.com/pub/optimistengineer/p/book-review-clean-architecture?r=nw9bj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This is a great list. I would say one thing to avoid is the 1 inch deep and mile wide scenario. You have lots of content - it won’t come to a student in a year. You have to build and test and refactor and test again to feel it. You have to jump in a pool to swim. You need to jump into the ocean to scuba dive.
Most master courses today are firehoses of information where you come out maybe remembering 20% of the stuff. Nothing stuck because all you did was read or build toy products.
I would tell anybody, do this course because Milan did the hard work and created a plan. Yes that will take a year. Just start getting your hands dirty. It is very hard to be an engineering leader when you cannot read your teams code. Yes you can be a suitable ui or product manager but not an engineering leader in one year.
Yes use ChatGPT / it is not intelligence it is automation.
You cannot go wrong with Milan work; he is taking you to the water ; now you have to drink it.
Oh if you have spent your last 10 years working your way up to a senior engineer then yes this material will get you to an engineer manager in a year. Just anything you have not done; get dirty.
I love to play in the mud. Only way to plant a a seedling that growns into a tree that gives you fruit every season - that is a product.
Thanks for the motivation Milan!
This is an invaluable collection of resources for anyone aiming to becoming an engineering manager or senior IC alike!
Thanks so much Nicola for mentioning me and The People's Software Engineer!
Thanks for the mention, Nicola.
I like that you put it in a 12-month roadmap. Most people will be overwhelmed with the amount of resources, but we underestimate what we can do in a year
This is a pretty comprehensive list to level up to engineering leader Nicola!
And thank you so much for mentioning my newsletter to learn System Design.