An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
By Will Larson
Categories: Business & Money
An Elegant Puzzle (2019) by Will Larson is a guide to managing software engineering teams, especially at fast-growing companies. Drawing on his work at Digg, Uber and Stripe, Larson covers sizing teams, paying down technical debt, running large migrations, hiring, developing engineers and planning for succession. He treats management as a set of systems that can be designed and improved, while keeping the people involved at the center.