An elegant puzzle : systems of engineering management / Will Larson.

"An Elegant Puzzle draws from the writing in his blog, Irrational Exuberance!"--Bio.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Organizations: Sizing teams ; Staying on the path to high-performing teams ; A case against top-down global optimization ; Productivity in the age of hypergrowth ; Where to stash your organizational risk? ; Succession planning -- Tools: Introduction to systems thinking ; Product management: exploration, selection, validation ; Visions and strategy ; Metrics and baselines ; Guiding broad organizational change with metrics ; Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt ; Running an engineering reorg ; Identify your controls ; Career narratives ; The briefest of media trainings ; Model, document, and share ; Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups ; Presenting to senior leadership ; Time management ; Communities of learning -- Approaches -- Culture -- Careers -- Appendix.

"Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management--from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning--and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Will Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management that leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes can apply. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in."--Amazon.com.