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Crafting engineering strategy : how thoughtful decisions solve complex problems / Will Larson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Will (Software engineer), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Software engineering--Management.
- Software engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa, CA : O’Reilly Media, 2025.
- Summary:
- Many engineers assume their organization doesn't have an engineering strategy--when in fact, they often do.It just may not be working.In Crafting Engineering Strategy, Will Larson (author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and The Engineering Executive's Primer) offers a practical, example-rich guide to navigating technical and organizational...
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- What This Book Is Not
- Navigating This Book
- Using Code Examples
- O'Reilly Online Learning
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introducing Engineering Strategy
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Grounded in My Direct Experience
- Adapting Rumelt for Engineering
- Iterative, Intellectual, and Mechanical
- This Book's Ambition
- Chapter 2. Is Engineering Strategy Useful?
- There's Always a Strategy
- Strategy Changes Companies
- Inappropriate Strategy Is Especially Impactful
- Written Strategy Drives Organizational Learning
- Implicit Strategy Comes at a Cost
- Writing Strategy Supports Personal Learning
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Who Gets to Do Strategy?
- Doing Strategy as an Engineer
- Doing Strategy as an Executive
- Doing Strategy in Other Roles
- Doing Strategy in Challenging Environments
- Low-Trust Environment
- Poor-Judgment Environment
- Dealing with Missing Strategies
- Who Shouldn't Do Strategy?
- Chapter 4. When Should You Write Strategy-and How Much?
- When to Write Strategy
- Current Strategic State
- Trends in Strategic State
- Your Context Level
- How Much Strategy to Write
- Strategy Altitude
- Are You Doing Too Much?
- Part II. Steps for Building Engineering Strategies
- Chapter 5. Steps to Build an Engineering Strategy
- How the Steps Become Strategy
- Step 1: Exploring
- Step 2: Diagnosing
- Step 3: Refining
- Step 4: Setting Policy
- Step 5: Operations
- Is the Structure Sacrosanct?
- Chapter 6. Exploring
- What Is Exploration?
- When to Explore
- How to Explore
- Mine Your Organization for Internal Precedent
- Using Your Network
- Read Widely
- Read Narrowly
- Each Job Is an Education
- Save Judgment for Later
- Chapter 7. Diagnosis
- Diagnosis Is Strategy's Foundation
- How to Develop Your Diagnosis
- Incorporating Data into Your Diagnosis
- Whisper the Controversial Parts
- Reframe Blockers as Part of Your Diagnosis
- The Role of Self-Awareness
- Chapter 8. Refining
- What Is Strategy Refinement?
- Does Refinement Matter?
- If It Matters, Why Is It Skipped?
- Building Your Toolkit
- Strategy Testing
- Systems Modeling
- Wardley Mapping
- Antipatterns in Refinement
- Chapter 9. Setting Policy
- What Is Policy?
- How to Set Policy
- How Many Policies?
- Kinds of Policies
- Approvals
- Allocations
- Direction
- Guidance
- Maintaining Strategy Altitude
- Criteria for Effective Policies
- Developing Novel Policies
- Are Competing Policy Proposals an Antipattern?
- Recognizing Constraints
- Chapter 10. Operations
- What Are Operational Mechanisms?
- How to Evaluate Mechanisms: A Rubric
- Composing an Operational Plan
- Effective Mechanisms and Patterns
- Approval and Advice Forums
- Inspection
- Nudges
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 979-83-416-4551-6
- OCLC:
- 1545570103
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