Strategy resources

One of the hardest parts of learning about engineering strategy is finding useful resources on a topic where so much is kept private. This appendix highlights some of the public resources that I’ve found valuable during my learning experience.

My prior writing

• Writing an engineering strategy is a chapter from The Engineering Executive’s Primer on setting engineering strategy as an executive
• Write five, then synthesize is a chapter from Staff Engineer on driving engineering strategy without executive authority (primarily through documentation)

Books

In addition to my own Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive’s Primer, both of which have chapters on engineering strategy, related books that I would encourage reading are: