Ask HN: Best books you've read on becoming a manager (of Sales and Eng Roles)

3 pointssanty-gegen6 comments

Curious on the community take. Thanks so much :)

Mythical Man Month & Peopleware are my favorites for organizational management of engineering groups.

oh thank you so much. i've heard a lot about mythical man month, i'll try to rent it at the local library. thanks :)

And I even nano-blogged about it so future generations will know my preference: https://www.bi6.us/content/nano/week_20250413.html#/20250419

loved it, specially the cadence, seems like you really got the machine running. eg: i see lots of post in 2025!

Managing Humans by Michael Loop

Many of the chapters are derived from his blog posts if you want to get a feel for it.

thanks so much caprock! i hadn't heard about this resource, i guess it's gonna really help me in my career. thanks again