An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

Engineering management has a set of recurring puzzles with known-good moves. Larson lays them out — team sizing, org design, growth, career frameworks — as systems to design rather than fires to fight.

A field manual for engineering leaders on the recurring structural problems of scaling teams: sizing and organizing teams, managing through rapid growth, migrations and technical debt, career ladders, performance, and hiring.