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Engineering Manager Handbook

Jun 25, 2026
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Read the handbookGitHub (build-in-public)

A practical, free Engineering Manager Handbook — 53 topics across 12 sections, from engineering foundations to people leadership — with guided navigation, full-text search, dark mode, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility.

Built in public, spec-first

The handbook is as much a process artifact as a content one. I planned and built it with the BMAD method — a spec-first, role-based way of working with an AI coding agent — and kept the entire paper trail in a public companion repo: the product brief, PRD with user journeys, UX and design docs, architecture decisions, and a full epics/stories breakdown across three initiatives (the branded shell, content migration, and the front-door launch), plus retrospectives.

How it came together

  • 23 topics migrated from a previous wiki, 30 stub entries expanded into full pieces.
  • Built on Hugo + Hextra, integrated directly into this site — no extra infrastructure.
  • Designed to be browsed by a new manager start-to-finish, or searched by anyone hunting for one specific answer.

If you want to see how a documentation project like this gets planned with AI rather than just the finished pages, the build-in-public repo is the place to look.