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<h1 id="awesome-engineering-strategy-awesome">Awesome Engineering
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<p>🎉 How to design and execute engineering strategies for tech
leadership.</p>
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<p>Engineering Strategy is a composition of resources such books, posts,
templates, learning materials, and open engineering strategies made by
the community and companies.</p>
<p>Contributions are welcome! Check out the contribution guidelines for
adding items to the list.</p>
<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#books">Books</a></li>
<li><a href="#posts">Posts</a></li>
<li><a href="#videos">Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="#methods">Methods</a></li>
<li><a href="#courses-and-workshops">Courses and Workshops</a></li>
<li><a href="#templates">Templates</a></li>
<li><a href="#supporting-material">Supporting Material</a></li>
<li><a href="#open-engineering-strategies">Open Engineering
Strategies</a></li>
<li><a href="#communities">Communities</a></li>
<li><a href="#podcasts">Podcasts</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="books">Books</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55782292-strategic-monoliths-and-microservices">Strategic
Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful
Architecture</a> - A set of strategic patterns on addressing business
capabilities with a monolith and microservices approach.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42414767-technology-strategy-patterns">Technology
Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy</a> - A set of business
tools and patterns from an engineering point of view.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56481725-staff-engineer">Staff
Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track</a> - How is the role
of the staff engineer and how this role addresses the engineering
strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53503300-reaching-cloud-velocity">Reaching
Cloud Velocity: A Leader’s Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud</a> - A
high-level book on business strategy, people, culture, data and
architecture and how this drives cloud velocity.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55047345-un-global-platform-handbook-on-information-technology-strategy">UN
Global Platform Handbook on Information Technology Strategy</a> - A set
of wardley maps on IT. Bringing situational awareness to different
contexts.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11721966">Good
Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters</a> -
Understand the core components of a strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61167316-the-value-flywheel-effect?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=donxleC2tR&amp;rank=1">The
Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization
to the Modern Cloud</a> - Using Wardley Mapping and other sensemaking
approaches to help organizations anticipate market changes and user
needs.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44135420-team-topologies">Team
Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow</a> -
Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for
organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental
team types and three team interaction patterns.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinkingow-in-systems">Thinking
in Systems</a> - An essential introduction into system thinking. It
helps the reader to understand the fundamentals and introduces several
system traps and how to overcome them.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179133.Domain_Driven_Design">Domain-Driven
Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software</a> - Strategic
patterns to understand complex domains and how to model them based on
the impact on the business competitive advantage.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15756865-implementing-domain-driven-design">Implementing
Domain-Driven Design</a> - An implementation approach to DDD from
strategic patterns to tactical patterns with code examples.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28602719-domain-driven-design-distilled">Domain-Driven
Design Distilled</a> - An accessible book to learn the main concepts of
Domain-Driven Design.</li>
<li><a
href="https://medium.com/wardleymaps/on-being-lost-2ef5f05eb1ec">Wardley
Maps</a> - A deep explanation of the origin of Wardley Maps up to the
full understanding of how to do strategy which it is adaptive to the
environment.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.manning.com/books/architecture-modernization">Architecture
Modernization. Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and
structure</a> - Concrete tools, techniques, and processes to align
software architecture with your business domains, organizational design,
team topologies, and corporate strategy.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="posts">Posts</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/designing-an-engineering-strategy">Designing
an Engineering Strategy Post Series</a> - How to build an engineering
strategy from 0.</li>
<li><a href="https://lethain.com/engineering-strategy/">Engineering
strategy</a> - What’s an engineering strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://sarahtaraporewalla.com/agile/design/architecture/Defining-a-Tech-Strategy">Defining
a Tech Strategy</a> - A high-level guideline on defining a tech
strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog/tech-strategy-you-need-it-but-what-is-it-af292421e422">Tech
Strategy: You Need it, But What is it?</a> - In-depth reflection of what
is a tech strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/-using-wardley-mapping-to-understand">🗺🧭
Using Wardley Mapping to understand why Google made G. Appointments to
compete in the Calendly market</a> - Using wardley mapping to understand
google appointments.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-strategy-why-do-you-need-one-tech-rui-felgueiras">What
is a Strategy? Why do you need one in Tech?</a> - Introduction to what
is a strategy for tech.</li>
<li><a
href="https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2019/12/09/delivering-on-an-architecture-strategy/">Delivering
on an Architecture Strategy</a> - Describes strategic architectural
initiatives, a framework which allowing product peeps and techies to
make progress on big technical improvements via aligned autonomy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://okorkmaz.medium.com/adr-deep-dive-into-architecture-decision-records-8c110ce7d74e">ADR:
Deep Dive into Architecture Decision Records</a> - Introduces what an
architecture decision record is, describes the terminology, how to
document the finalized architecture, and focuses on the best practices
by presenting real scenerio.</li>
<li><a
href="https://alexewerlof.substack.com/p/strategy-glossary">Strategy
glossary</a> - Building a common language for vision, mission, goals,
objectives, roadmap, plans, milestones, policies.</li>
<li><a
href="https://alexewerlof.substack.com/p/strategy-basics">Strategy
basics</a> - First in a series of posts about strategy why, how and
what.</li>
<li><a href="https://lethain.com/eng-strategies/">Writing an engineering
strategy</a> - A guide on how to write and document an engineering
strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://esilva.net/articles/architecture-modernization-enabling-team">Architecture
Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)</a> - Explains how AMET coordinates
and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization
initiative.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/when-and-when-not-to-do-an-engineering">When
and when <em>not</em> to do an engineering strategy</a> - Using Cynefin
Framework, it shares in which domains designing an engineering strategy
makes more sense compared to just execute.</li>
<li><a href="https://esilva.net/articles/emergent-platforms">Emergent
Platform and Evolution in Sociotechnical Systems</a> - How platforms
emerge from business challenges and the different types of teams like
enabling and platform teams collaborate with stream-aligned teams to
create the space and opportunities for platforms to evolve.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/interim-platform-team">Interim
Platform Teams</a> - When a stream-aligned team starts supporting
internal customers and acting as an interim platform team. How to
deliver a great internal experience while delivering features for
external clients.</li>
<li><a
href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/creating-integrated-tech-strategy.html">Creating
an integrated business and technology strategy</a> - Eleven prevalent
strategic directions that organisations traverse with examples.</li>
<li><a
href="https://lethain.com/solving-the-engineering-strategy-crisis/">Solving
the Engineering Strategy crisis</a> - A unified theory of Engineering
strategy, with a particular emphasis on how you can drive strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/engineering-strategy-is-a-fractal">Engineering
Strategy is a Fractal</a> - How to apply organization engineering
strategy to the local context while keeping aligned with organization
goals.</li>
<li><a href="https://lethain.com/strategy-notes/">Engineering strategy
notes</a> - A collection of links on the topic gathered.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/engineering-strategy-is-more-similar">Engineering
strategy is more similar to poker than to chess</a> - A comparison of
chess and poker games and how they relate to engineering strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/the-outcome-of-the-strategy-becomes">The
outcome of the strategy becomes culture</a> - Culture guides and
constrains your strategy. Using strategy to influence your culture.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-your-engineering-strategy-pt-1-pat-cullen-cwjqe/">What’s
your engineering strategy?</a> - Multi-part strategy guide with specific
templates you can deploy rapidly in your organization.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/combining-engineering-strategy-with">Combining
Engineering Strategy with the North Star Framework ⭐</a> - How to
combine an engineering strategy with the north star framework to be
guided by actionable metrics.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/engineering-strategy-beyond-good">Engineering
strategy beyond good and best practices</a> - How only investing on good
and best engineering practices won’t position your company ahead of the
competition that makes context specific decisions.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/you-need-to-understand-the-business">You
need to understand the business to design a good engineering
strategy</a> - A set of relevant aspects of the business that help
people to have a broader understanding to improve their engineering
strategy with a set of questions to ask to the domain experts.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.eferro.net/2021/02/basal-cost-of-software.html">Basal
Cost of software</a> - How the basal cost, composed of direct impact on
team capacity of the added complexity and the cost of the development or
evolution of other features, affects the existing systems and teams to
deliver value.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/dealing-with-teams-with-competing">Dealing
with teams with competing priorities and needs</a> - An engineering
strategy example of how to deal with teams with competing
priorities.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="videos">Videos</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh7rK2F9pk">Experimentation and
Evolution with Wardley Maps</a> - How Cat has used Wardley Maps to
inform her always evolving strategy for the modernization of
Ticketmaster’s core ticketing platform not only in terms of technical
capabilities and architecture but also process maturity, organizational
design, and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZKjxeg5W0">Crossing the
River by Feeling the Stones</a> - Simon Wardley examines the issue of
situational awareness and explains how it applies to technology.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4-vpegxYPg">Complex
Adaptive Systems</a> - How to understand and categorize domains into
ordered, complicated, complex, and chaotic, and how to navigate
them.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_0B-aY_L0c">Systems are
communication structures</a> - Understand how communication within an
organization creates patterns that repeat themselves and scale up to the
organization.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtfncGAeXWU">Whole Work:
Sociotechnicity &amp; DevOps</a> - How to understand the present to
design a better present that will create better futures from a system
thinking perspective.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="methods">Methods</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://userneedsmapping.com/">User Needs Mapping</a> - An
approach combining the essentials of Wardley Mapping with Team
Topologies with a strong focus on user needs.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="courses-and-workshops">Courses and Workshops</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://learn.hiredthought.com/p/wardley-mapping">Pragmatic
Wardley Mapping</a> - An online course to introduce people into Wardley
Mapping.</li>
<li><a href="https://kalele.io/training/iddd/">Implementing
Domain-Driven Design</a> - Hands-on exercises show you how to use DDD
strategic and tactical design in your implementations.</li>
<li><a href="https://kalele.io/fast-flow-of-change/">Fast Flow of
Change</a> - Combining Wardley Mapping, DDD &amp; Team Topologies, this
workshop will help you to design for adaptability.</li>
<li><a
href="https://aleixmorgadas.dev/workshops/engineering-strategy">Engineering
Strategy Workshop</a> - Introduction to engineering strategy theory and
components.</li>
<li><a
href="https://ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/Strategy_Masterclass_Overview.htm">Strategy
for Technical Leaders Masterclass</a> - This masterclass builds on our
work with software, system and enterprise architects and product,
program and executive managers including CTOs and CIOs.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="templates">Templates</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://aleixmorgadas.notion.site/Engineering-Strategy-Template-910ad428d3d14c5a9aef4a4c32c4a8ba">Engineering
Strategy Notion Template</a> - A template with the core elements of an
engineering strategy, the high-stake problem, the understanding phase,
the direction, and coherent actions.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="supporting-material">Supporting material</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ddd-crew/context-mapping">Context
mapping</a> - Visualize the contract between bounded contexts and teams
with a collection of patterns.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ddd-crew/core-domain-charts">Core domain
charts</a> - Help you to visualise the strategic importance of each
(sub)domain or business capability in your architecture allowing you to
make business model-aligned architectural decisions.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="open-engineering-strategies">Open Engineering Strategies</h2>
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<p>Open Engineering Strategies section aims to provide a relevant set of
public available Engineering Strategies so we can learn from each
other.</p>
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<ul>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/community-startup-engineering-strategy?s=w">Community
Startup</a> - Prove product market fit with an MVP.</li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/">GitLab
Strategy</a> - Complete GitLab three-year strategy. Containing
direction, customer focus, and team dynamics.</li>
<li><a href="https://flutter.dev/go/strategy-2022">Flutter in 2022
Strategy</a> - Flutter annual strategy document for 2022.</li>
<li><a
href="https://gitpod.notion.site/Gitpod-s-Direction-be35d064c0704fbda61c542b84e07ef6">Gitpod
Strategy</a> - Gitpod purpose, vision, and strategy.</li>
<li><a
href="https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/post-product-market-fit-open-engineering">Qatium
Product Market Fit</a> - An engineering strategy when the product
verifies product market fit and the engineering isn’t evolving the
practices to match the new product needs.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="communities">Communities</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://discord.gg/mebRYrNamF">Engineering Strategy on
Discord</a> - Discord community focused on Engineering Strategy.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="podcasts">Podcasts</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2o8lWLvV9O0P2Gf9J6xzLo?si=049c9a2c90924aa7">Engineering
Strategy Podcast</a> - Engineering strategy interviews to tech leaders
in English and Spanish by Aleix Morgadas.</li>
<li><a href="https://techleadjournal.dev/">Tech Lead Journal</a> - A
podcast by Henry Suryawirawan where experienced technical leaders share
the often undefined, beyond-the-code skills that shaped their
journeys.</li>
</ul>
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