General Guides

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Guides
Microsoft
 		 Code With Engineering Playbook
This is the best and more complete engineering playbook I could find so far. It covers Code Reviews, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Developer Experience, Automated Testing, Observability, Reliability, Documentation, and more.
Agile Alliance
 		 Agile Playbook
Agile is not the focus here but it is a complementary reading because this playbook is the best one available and mostly because it explains all 3 frameworks (Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban) and correlates to the level of maturity of the team.
Waydev Engineering Managers’ Handbook - Individual Work Patterns: This handbook is designed to help engineering managers foster team culture, promote best practices, mentor and advocate for their members.
Obvious
 		 Obvious Engineering Playbook
Obvious is a product and strategy consultancy that has helped create several of SE Asia’s unicorn startups.
Poll Everywhere The Poll Everywhere playbook

References

 The Manager’s Path - by Camille Frontier
A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Key takeaways
  • “One-on-one meetings with your manager are an essential feature of a good working relationship.”
  • “A manager’s job involves making it easy for her employees to get things done by creating fertile environments in which work can happen.”
  • “Mentoring new hires is critical.”
  • “Feedback works best when you, as a manager, pair that feedback with coaching.”
  • “It’s unrealistic to think you can or should shield your team from everything.”
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    		Production-Ready Microservices - by Susan Fowler
    Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization
    		Microservices Patterns - by Chris Richardson
    		Refactoring - by Martin Fowler
    Improving the Design of Existing Code