The primary sources this course is built from, and where to go next.
The primary source. Getting the job, the first 90 days, engineering strategy, planning, measurement, org values, hiring, leaving. Most chapters have a free companion essay on lethain.com under the executive tag.
Ch. 8 'The Big Leagues' for the five senior technical roles and the CTO/VP Eng split. Ch. 9 'Bootstrapping Culture' for career ladders.
The kernel: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action. What Larson's strategy chapter is built on.
The four delivery metrics and the capabilities that move them. dora.dev carries the current, longer capability list.
Conway's law, four team types, three interaction modes, cognitive load as the limit on what a team can own.
Managerial output and leverage, task-relevant maturity, meetings as the medium of managerial work.