The CTO Field Guide
A handbook to get tech leaders started
The CTO Field Guide launched on May 14, 2022 with 151 votes, #166 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
This is not a training program. It is a book with actionable information to help you if you just got promoted, want to structure an engineering team or just want to add to your tool box. You will find templates to get started on engineering management.
You got a new job or got promoted. You want to suceed as or get to a tech leadership position. I wrote this book to help people as I wanted to be helped while I was learning to manage. You will will find useful advice, guides and templates to get up and running as an engineering leadership. This is a field manual for CTO, Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers and Tech Leads. It is hard to start and grow throught the engineering management career. A lot of books teach useful stuff but many of them are focusing on the moment of change or how to manage your manager. This book is not like that. It was developed over my experience of 25 years in software development, more than half of that…from ctofieldguide.com
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