Docs and Blog Posts

• The Tech Lead’s New Project Checklist
• Criteria to Apply to Third Party Vendors when considering build vs buy
• Other posts on My InSimpleTerms blog (Technical Leadership category)
• Becoming an engineering director

Misc

• Technical_Leadership tag in private Evernote
• Claire W ran a tech lead role definition workshop for me and a resident tech lead at Samba. The outcome postits are available (to Clare only) at OneDrive\TW-Stuff\Clients[Samba]]\ClaireW-TechLeadPics-small
• See section on skills matrices for an example of a skills matrix for tech leads
• A great idea for how to track all the good things you’re doing, ready for progress reviews and promotion requests - the brag document
• Thoughts on building a team / line management
• See also The Tech Lead’s New Project Checklist, because I’ve added a bunch of stuff onto the end

Books

Radical Candor, by Kim Scott

• Good quote about the command and control leadership style (this twitter thread will also contain other quotes and concepts from the book)

The Principal Engineer Role

• Being an Individual Contributor => Principal Engineer, by @NickyWrightson
• Being a Principal Engineer at SkyScanner, by @NickyWrightson
• Being a Principal Engineer, by Sylvia Botros (@dbsmasher)
• See also - my AO.com notes