Management blogs

Joel Spolsky writes about software development, management, and running a software company, with many essays from the early 2000s.

Top post: Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

First Round Review is the content arm of venture firm First Round Capital, with startup advice on product, hiring, and management.

Top post: How To Find Product/Market Fit — A Step By Step Guide

Michael Lopp, known as Rands, writes about engineering management, leadership, and working with nerds, and runs a leadership Slack community.

Top post: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster (2010)

Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author, writes The Pragmatic Engineer on tech careers, salaries, big tech practices and engineering management.

Top post: The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)

Will Larson, an engineering executive and author of Staff Engineer, writes on engineering management, tech debt and career growth.

Top post: Digg v4 Launch Story

Zach Holman, a former GitHub engineer, writes about software workflows, remote work, Git, deployment, and giving talks.

Top post: Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (2016)

Michael O. Church wrote essays on software careers, startups, venture capital, management, and the Gervais Principle.

Top post: Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs

Coda Hale is a software engineer who writes on password storage, cryptographic timing attacks, distributed systems theory, and how organizations work.

Top post: How To Safely Store A Password

Ben Horowitz, venture capitalist and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, writes about running startups, CEOs, and management.

Top post: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)

Eric Ries writes on startup methodology, including minimum viable products, customer development, pivots and root cause analysis.

Top post: Building a minimum viable product

Jacob Kaplan-Moss, a co-creator of Django, writes on engineering management, software estimation, documentation and Python tooling.

Top post: Embrace the Grind

Erik Dietrich writes about software careers, management, consulting and why developers stop improving, including the "Expert Beginner" series.

Top post: How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

Cedric Chin writes Commoncog on business operations, tacit knowledge, learning, data-driven management, and how companies build advantage.

Top post: Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)

Scott Berkun is an author and former Microsoft manager who writes about project management, creative work, and workplace culture.

Top post: Asshole Driven Development

Code as Craft is Etsy's engineering blog, covering blameless postmortems, deployment, monitoring, HTTPS management, and engineering culture.

Top post: Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012)

Erik Bernhardsson, creator of Annoy and former Spotify engineer, writes on software estimation, hiring, data teams and machine learning.

Top post: Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

Charity Majors, an engineer and Honeycomb cofounder, writes on engineering management, observability, operations and startups.

Top post: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Pieter Hintjens, a programmer behind ZeroMQ who died in 2016, wrote about software communities, open source collaboration, toxic people and his own cancer.

Top post: A Protocol for Dying

Jo Freeman, a political scientist and writer, hosts her essays on feminist movements and organizing, including The Tyranny of Structurelessness.

Top post: The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

Honeycomb, an observability company, writes about tracing, instrumentation, performance, and engineering management.

Top post: Why observability requires a distributed column store

Yegor Bugayenko, a software entrepreneur, writes opinionated essays on object-oriented programming, project management and programmer pay.

Top post: Why getter and setter methods are evil

Mike Hadlow, a software developer, writes about software design, architecture anti-patterns and development practice.

Top post: The Configuration Complexity Clock

Stay SaaSy is an anonymous-style blog on tech management, leadership, product strategy and career advice for software teams.

Top post: A tech stack should be a well-balanced portfolio

Baldur Bjarnason writes about web development, software management, and the risks of AI, drawing on his work as a developer and consultant.

Top post: Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies (2022)

Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp and HEY, writes about running a small company, entrepreneurship, and company changes.

Top post: Hey World: Blogging Platform from Hey

John Allspaw, a former Etsy engineering leader, writes about operations, incident analysis, resilience and what being a senior engineer means.

Top post: On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)

Marty Cagan and the Silicon Valley Product Group write about product management, empowered product teams, and product discovery.

Top post: Product vs. Feature Teams (2019)

Matt Welsh, a former Harvard professor who moved to Google, writes on academia, engineering management and leaving a tenured job.

Top post: Why I'm leaving Harvard (for Google)

Steven Sinofsky, a former Microsoft executive, writes about the history of Microsoft, Windows, Office, and how software platforms evolve.

Top post: “Steven, Bill Gates called. Call him back.”

Pivotal's company blog covers Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes tooling, microservices, extreme programming, and software engineering practices.

Top post: Pivotal Labs Case Study: Indian Railways – Improving System Performance at Scale

Buffer's company blog on its open practices, including public salaries, equity formulas, remote work, and layoffs.

Top post: New Remote-First Formula and Updated Salary Calculator

Dan North, a software consultant and originator of behaviour-driven development, writes about programming practice and team methods.

Top post: Programming is not a craft

Buffer's team writes about running the company openly, including public salaries, equity formulas, pricing, a security incident, and self-management.

Top post: Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer

Ryan Tomayko, a GitHub developer, writes about Ruby, Unix, web architecture, Git, and team management.

Top post: How I explained REST to my wife

Bruce F. Webster, an IT consultant and expert witness, writes about failed IT projects, software management, and technical workforce problems.

Top post: The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)

Alison Green answers reader questions about workplace problems, hiring, management, and awkward office situations.

Top post: The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

Andrew Bosworth, a Meta executive, writes short essays on career growth, management, incentives, and how to treat colleagues.

Top post: Be Kind

Treehouse, an online coding education company, publishes posts on web development, iOS, startups, and how it runs its flat-structured team.

Top post: Working in a Flat Company (2013)

Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Windows head, writes about product strategy, Apple, meetings, organizations, and the future of work.

Top post: Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View

HubSpot's engineers and product managers write about deployment, Backbone and iOS code structure, and product management.

Top post: G1GC Fundamentals: Lessons from Taming Garbage Collection

Julie Zhuo, a product design executive formerly at Facebook, writes about management, design, and working with engineers.

Top post: Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management

Ron Jeffries, an Agile Manifesto signatory, writes about Agile, Scrum, extreme programming, TDD and refactoring.

Top post: Dark Scrum

Lorin Hochstein writes about incidents, resilience engineering, complex systems, and how software organizations handle failure.

Top post: Contempt for the glue people

Paul Hammant, a software consultant, writes about trunk-based development, source control, dependency injection, legacy app replacement, and Smalltalk.

Top post: Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline (2013)

Jessica Kerr writes about software team practices, testing, and development speed, including property-based testing and pull request reviews.

Top post: Those pesky pull request reviews

Oxide Computer's public Requests for Discussion, internal design and policy documents on engineering, hiring, Rust, and LLM use.

Top post: Using LLMs at Oxide

Ben Kamens, a lead developer at Khan Academy, writes about web engineering, App Engine, A/B testing, team practices, and shipping software.

Top post: Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

The iDoneThis team writes about productivity, management, startup growth, and company culture, tied to its daily check-in product.

Top post: Bad Managers Talk, Good Managers Write

Bob Sutton, a Stanford professor of management, writes about workplace behavior, hiring, leadership, and organizational research.

Top post: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

James Shore, a software developer and agile consultant, writes about testing, dependency injection, test-driven development, and agile practice.

Top post: Dependency Injection (simple explanation)

Yusuf Aytas writes about software engineering leadership, API design, incentives, and over-engineering.

Top post: The Mirror Is Part of the Machine

Zef Hemel, a software developer, writes about programming tools and languages like Clojure, Nix, and Dart, and about engineering careers.

Top post: Declaratively Provision Docker Images Using Nix

Arkency, a Ruby on Rails consultancy, writes about Rails architecture, refactoring, team practices and multitenancy.

Top post: Disadvantages of Pull Requests

Mind the Product is a product management community and conference organizer publishing articles on building products, working with engineers, and user feedback.

Top post: Jobs

Mathias Meyer, a software engineer and former Travis CI executive, writes on databases, operations, engineering culture, and management.

Top post: Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy

IT Revolution is a publisher and media company, founded by Gene Kim, focused on DevOps books, podcasts, and case studies.

Top post: The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps

Ben Balter, a GitHub employee and former government technologist, writes about open source, remote work and government technology.

Top post: The difference between 18F and USDS

Alistair Cockburn, a software methodologist and Agile Manifesto co-author, writes on hexagonal architecture, people in software projects and estimation.

Top post: Hexagonal Architecture

Typical Programmer is a blog on software development culture, maintenance programming, methodologies, and code readability, with a satirical streak.

Top post: Why don’t software development methodologies work?

Yishan Wong, a former Facebook engineering manager and Reddit CEO, writes about engineering management, hiring, process, and career success.

Top post: Engineering management at Facebook