{"product_id":"leading-effective-software-teams-systems-thinking-for-engineering-managers-paperback","title":"Leading Effective Software Teams: Systems Thinking for Engineering Managers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Laycock\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eFrancisco Trindade\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour team is a system. Most engineering managers never learn to see it that way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an engineering manager, you are handed multiple jobs at once: deliver the product, keep the technology healthy, and grow the people. The usual approach treats them as separate problems with separate playbooks, and it leaves you overworked with worse results. \u003ci\u003eLeading Effective Software Teams\u003c\/i\u003e shows how they are one problem, and how the best way to shape your role is by designing the system where all three come together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gives you a practical systems thinking perspective for running a software team in an industry where AI is reshaping how software gets built and effectiveness matters more than headcount. Instead of prescribing rituals to copy, it teaches you how to think: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFind the real constraint.\u003c\/b\u003e Learn to see where your team's output is actually limited, instead of fixing what is loudest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKnow when to act.\u003c\/b\u003e Understand when to intervene and when staying out of the way is the higher-leverage move.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSpend attention where it counts.\u003c\/b\u003e Focus your limited time on the decisions that change outcomes, across product, technology, and people.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you are a new engineering manager, an engineer moving into leadership, or an experienced leader looking to sharpen your practice, this is a guide to engineering leadership as it actually works, not as frameworks describe it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Trindade is VP of Engineering at Braze in New York. Drawing on two decades across consulting, startups, and product companies, he writes as a practitioner talking to a peer, grounded in real situations rather than theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 308\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923721552179,"sku":"9798996544004","price":43.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/V9RVnIHJYm9798996544004.webp?v=1793825592","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/leading-effective-software-teams-systems-thinking-for-engineering-managers-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}