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A curated andopinionatedlist of resources forChief Technology Officers and VP R&D,with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
- CTO Position
- Hiring
- People management
- Career growth
- Project management
- Handbooks
- Development process
- Architecture
- Technologies
- Data
- Startups
- Due Diligence
- Money / Finance
- Related stuff
- Product
- Marketing
- Books
- More links
- The Different CTO Roles- Werner Vogels(Amazon CTO)
- Is it required to be a developer to become a CTO?(Quora)
- Three Golden Rules to Finding a CTO
- Becoming a CTO
- VP Engineering vs CTO- Fred Wilson(Union Square Ventures)
- What makes for a successful CEO and CTO relationship in a startup?(Quora)
- #define CTO- Greg Brockman(Stripe CTO)
- How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers
- Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering- Will Larson
- How to spend your first 30 days in a new senior-level role
- The difference between a CTO and a VP Engineering
- The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing- Joel Spolsky(StackOverflow co-founder)
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code- Joel Spolsky
- Why Can't Programmers.. Program?- Jeff Atwood(StackOverflow co-founder)
- We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else- Jeff Atwood
- Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right- Jeff Atwood
- Engineering interview process at Stripe(Quora)
- Improving Our Engineering Interview Process(Foursquare)
- Hitting the High Notes- Joel Spolsky
- Top 10 System Design Interview Questions-(HackerNoon)
- How To Hire World-Class Engineers(angel.co)
- Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you
- The Real 11 Reasons I Don't Hire You- Charity Majors
- How to Interview at Amazon
- Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to Interview an Executive
- Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to Become a Magnet for Talent
- GitLab Talent Acquisition Framework
- Visualizing Tech Company Layoffs in 2022
- The mythical 10x programmer- Salvatore Sanfilippo(author of Redis)
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum- Charity Majors
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule- Paul Graham(Y Combinator)
- Software Engineering at Google
- Google re:Work
- 44 Engineering Management Lessons(correct link tonon-violent communicationfor lesson 34)
- The Secret To Discussing Pay With Employees
- Awesome Leading and Managing(Github)
- Progressing from tech to leadership
- A Review Process- Cap Watkins
- 12 manager readmes from top tech companies
- Predictable Delivery
- How people rise up to EVP level in big organizations(Quora)
- Should I Become a Manager?- Cap Watkins
- How to fail as a new engineering manager
- Design Patterns for Managing Up
- A Tactical Guide to Managing Up
- Engineering Management(Github)
- On-boarding Software Engineers
- Hold Your Team Accountable
- The Manager FAQ
- The Power of Performance Reviews
- Performance reviews are coming up- Gergely Orosz
- Principles of Engineering Management
- Compensation Best Practices
- Draw The Owl and Other Company Values You Didn’t Know You Should Have
- A MANAGER’S BILL OF RESPONSIBILITIES (AND RIGHTS)
- After Being A Manager, Can I Be Happy As A Cog?
- Increment: Teams
- Hacking team communications
- How to build a startup engineering team
- Hug your manager
- Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to be an Effective Executive
- How Context Switching Sabotages Your Productivity
- 10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
- 7 Ways to Set Up a New Hire for Success
- How to get promoted
- Individuals matter
- Mandate Levels
- 10 ideas for building great culture in a distributed (remote) team
- Adapting to Endure / Crisis management- Sequoia
- Mochary Method Curriculum- Matt Mochary
- Meetings for an effective eng organization- Will Larson
- The One Key to Dealing with Senior Executives: Answer the Question!
- Step by step guide to building high performing teams
- Cycle times- Andrew Bosworth
- Career Growth Frameworks in Software Engineering: A Review
- Software Engineers Growth framework
- Software Engineering Ladders(GitHub)
- Awesome Engineering Ladders(GitHub)
- Reverse Interview
- Evidence Based Scheduling- Joel Spolsky(StackOverflow co-founder)
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum- Gergely Orosz
- The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
- What TPMs Do and What Software Engineers Can Learn From Them- Gergely Orosz
- How to Scope a New Feature
- Measuring an engineering organization- Will Larson
- The Atlassian Team Playbook
- Valve Employee Handbook
- Basecamp Employee Handbook
- GitLab Team Handbook
- How HashiCorp Works
- Scrum / Agile
- CI / CD
- Git
- Comparing Git workflows
- A successful Git branching model
- Alternative:Trunk Based Development(focused onDevOps and CI/CD)
- Tech debt
- Crisis
- How to Write a Postmortem
- List of Post-mortems(GitHub)
- Startup Lessons Learned - Five Whys- Eric Ries(creator of the Lean Startup)
- On Call Rotations: How Best to Wake Devs Up in the Middle of the Night
- Testing in Production, the safe way
- Error handling
- Twelve-Factor App
- Reactive Manifesto
- An introduction to distributed systems- Kyle Kingsbury(aphyr, author of Jepsen)
- Microservices – Please, don’t(also:HackerNews discussion)
- GitHub CTO – Biggest architectural mistake was going full microservice(also:HackerNews discussion)
- The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
- Shrinking microservices to functions
- Design patterns for microservices
- Serverless architecture(Quora)
- Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
- 10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
- How I Write Tests
- Lambda Architecture
- Awesome Scalability(GitHub)
- The Single Most Important Internal Email in the History of Amazon
- Build Your Own X(GitHub)
- Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision. Technical decision making
- General
- Javascript
- Big scale
- Security
- Search
- Open Guide to Search Engineering(GitHub)
- Cloud
- Pricing
- Awesome Billing(GitHub)
- Awesome PriceOps(GitHub)
- NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance
- Evolutionary Database Design(Martin Fowler)
- Database Migrations Done Right
- A reference guide for fintech & small-data engineering
- Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story
- DataOps
- Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- What are the things startups have to get right?(Quora)
- 85 Things I learned being a CEO
- What’s the Second Job of a Startup CEO?
- Things I will tell my kids if they become entrepreneurs
- What do VCs really look for when making investments?(Quora)
- As an employee of a startup, how do you know when to quit?(Quora)
- Pitch deck collection from VC funded startups
- YC’s Series A Diligence Checklist
- Startup Playbook- Sam Altman
- Y Combinator Startup Class
- Lean Canvas+Miro template
- Open Source Pitch Deck Templates for Figma
- List of startups that had successful pivots(GitHub)
- Technology Due Diligence Checklist
- Technical Due Diligence Questions(GitHub)
- IT Department Tech Due Diligence Checklist
- A Guide to Surviving Tech Due Diligence
- Startups
- IPOs and Beyond: A Guide to Exit Options for Companies
- What would a CTO equity be for a small startup?(Quora)
- Options vs Cash
- How To Invest In Startups- Sam Altman
- A Guide to Seed Fundraising
- Startup Economics equity calculator
- Option grants at seed
- Joining the new startup, with a handsome stock option allocation- Gergely Orosz
- Equity 101 for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups- Gergely Orosz
- Big companies
- Knowledge-Sharing Architects As An Alternative to Coding Architects
- Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer(also:HackerNews discussion)
- Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
- What are best practices of experienced programmers?(Quora)
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
- 2016 European Software Development Salary Survey(O'Reilly)
- DevOps: Bringing development and operations together(Atlassian)
- How to Prepare a Talk
- Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well- Gergely Orosz
- The Pyramid Principle
- Senior Engineer’s Checklist
- How to Use OpenAPI and Swagger for Documentation
- What Makes a Great Product Manager
- If You Don’t Think You Need a VP of Product...
- Red Oceans: How to Find Profitable Startup Ideas
- Product North Star Metric
- What distinguishes the Top 1% of product managers from the Top 10%?-(Quora)
- How to Hire a Product Manager
- The Secrets Of Creative Thinking
- StellarPeers - Product Management Interviews
- Product vs. Feature Teams
- Most Startups Should Be Deer Hunters
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
- How to Write Your First Strategic Roadmap
- Execution at Facebook
- 8 Product Hurdles Every Founder Must Clear
- The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers
- Product Manager Career Ladders- Lenny Rachitsky
- Awesome Product Management(GitHub)
- Awesome Product Manager(GitHub)
- Developer Marketing Guide
- Top Resources for Startup Marketing and PR
- SaaS Email Marketing Handbook
- How today's fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers
- Awesome Falsehood(GitHub)
- Engineering blogs(GitHub)
- Awesome Awesomeness(GitHub)
- Awesome.re(GitHub)
- Chief Technology Officer vs Coder Thinker Organizer(GitHub)
- Senior Software Engineer
- Socal CTO
- Curated list of CTO resources(GitHub)
- Awesome CTO Resources(GitHub)
- Free Tools for Developers
- NfX - The Founder Library
- foundr - Advices from founders
- The Leadership Library for Engineers
- Rands Leadership Slack
- Engineering Managers Slack
- Awesome CEO(GitHub)
- Awesome TPM(GitHub)