Awesome Engineering Strategy 
🎉 How to design and execute engineering strategies for tech leadership.
Engineering Strategy is a composition of resources such books, posts, templates, learning materials, and open engineering strategies made by the community and companies.
Contributions are welcome! Check out the contribution guidelines for adding items to the list.
Contents
Books
- Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture by Vaughn Vernon, Tomasz Jaskula - A set of strategic patterns on addressing business capabilities with a monolith and microservices approach.
- Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy by Eben Hewitt - A set of business tools and patterns from an engineering point of view.
- Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson - How is the role of the staff engineer and how this role addresses the engineering strategy.
- Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud by Jonathan Allen, Thomas Blood, Werner Vogels, Adrian Cockcroft, Mark Schwartz - A high-level book on business strategy, people, culture, data and architecture and how this drives cloud velocity.
- UN Global Platform Handbook on Information Technology Strategy by Mark Craddock, Rob McLellan, Simon Wardley, Matjaz Jug, Jan Murdoch - A set of wardley maps on IT. Bringing situational awareness to different contexts.
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Understand the core components of a strategy.
- The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud - Using Wardley Mapping and other sensemaking approaches to help organizations anticipate market changes and user needs.
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow - 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.
- Thinking in Systems
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
- Implementing Domain-Driven Design
- Domain-Driven Design Distilled
- Wardley Maps
Posts
- Designing an Engineering Strategy Post Series by Aleix Morgadas - How to build an engineering strategy from 0.
- Engineering strategy by Will Larson - What's an engineering strategy.
- Defining a Tech Strategy by Sarah Taraporewalla - A high-level guideline on defining a tech strategy.
- Tech Strategy: You Need it, But What is it? by Nick Tune - In-depth reflection of what is a tech strategy.
- 🗺🧠Using Wardley Mapping to understand why Google made G. Appointments to compete in the Calendly market by Aleix Morgadas - Using wardley mapping to understand google appointments.
- What is a Strategy? Why do you need one in Tech? - Introduction to what is a strategy for tech.
- Delivering on an Architecture Strategy - Describes strategic architectural initiatives, a framework which allowing product peeps and techies to make progress on big technical improvements via aligned autonomy.
- ADR: Deep Dive into Architecture Decision Records - 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.
- Strategy glossary - Building a common language for vision, mission, goals, objectives, roadmap, plans, milestones, policies.
- Strategy basics - First in a series of posts about strategy why, how and what.
- Writing an engineering strategy - A guide on how to write and document an engineering strategy.
- Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET) - Explains how AMET coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.
Videos
- Experimentation and Evolution with Wardley Maps - Cat Swetel - 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.
- Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones - Simon Wardley - Simon Wardley examines the issue of situational awareness and explains how it applies to technology.
- Complex Adaptive Systems - Dave Snowden
- Systems are communication structures - Diana Montalion
- Whole Work: Sociotechnicity & DevOps - Jabe Bloom
Courses and Workshops
- Pragmatic Wardley Mapping
- Implementing Domain-Driven Design
- Fast Flow of Change - Combining Wardley Mapping, DDD & Team Topologies, this workshop will help you to design for adaptability.
Templates
- Engineering Strategy Notion Template - A template with the core elements of an engineering strategy, the high-stake problem, the understanding phase, the direction, and coherent actions.
Open Engineering Strategies
Open Engineering Strategies section aims to provide a relevant set of public available Engineering Strategies so we can learn from each other.
- Community Startup by Aleix Morgadas - Prove product market fit with an MVP.
- GitLab Strategy - Complete GitLab three-year strategy. Containing direction, customer focus, and team dynamics.
- Flutter in 2022 Strategy - Flutter annual strategy document for 2022.
- Gitpod Strategy - Gitpod purpose, vision, and strategy.
- Qatium Product Market Fit - An engineering strategy when the product verifies product market fit and the engineering isn't evolving the practices to match the new product needs.