* Title: The Technical Leader's Field Guide * Author(s) name(s): Michael A Smith * ISBN (or ASIN): 979-8-9985626-0-0 * Publisher: Michael Asmith * Publication Date Year: 2025 * Publication Date Month: September * Publication Date Day: 1 * Page count: 404 * Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Paperback * Description: The Technical Leader's Field Guide: How to Manage Scope, Clients, and Engineers in High-Pressure Environments
You’re a tech lead now—congratulations. Now what?
This isn’t just another leadership book filled with vague platitudes and corporate fluff. The Technical Leader’s Field Guide gives you practical tools, hard-won lessons, and frameworks you can apply today. Whether you’re leading your first team or scaling delivery across multiple work streams, this guide helps you navigate the messy middle between engineering and execution.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Defend your team’s time and build sane scopes
Lead architecture reviews that surface risks before they sink you
Coach junior team members without babysitting
Escalate the right way—early, clearly, and with a plan
Build trust with clients, cross-functional partners, and executives
Say no without burning bridges
Handle technical debt, un-scoped work, and shifting priorities
You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room. You need to be the calmest, clearest, and most dependable. This book shows you how.
Written by a seasoned Solutions Architect who’s led dozens of teams across multimillion-dollar projects, The Technical Leader’s Field Guide is your no-nonsense playbook for succeeding in the role no one trains you for.
* Title: The Technical Leader's Field Guide
* Author(s) name(s): Michael A Smith
* ISBN (or ASIN): 979-8-9985626-0-0
* Publisher: Michael Asmith
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: September
* Publication Date Day: 1
* Page count: 404
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Paperback
* Description:
The Technical Leader's Field Guide: How to Manage Scope, Clients, and Engineers in High-Pressure Environments
You’re a tech lead now—congratulations. Now what?
This isn’t just another leadership book filled with vague platitudes and corporate fluff. The Technical Leader’s Field Guide gives you practical tools, hard-won lessons, and frameworks you can apply today. Whether you’re leading your first team or scaling delivery across multiple work streams, this guide helps you navigate the messy middle between engineering and execution.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Defend your team’s time and build sane scopes
Lead architecture reviews that surface risks before they sink you
Coach junior team members without babysitting
Escalate the right way—early, clearly, and with a plan
Build trust with clients, cross-functional partners, and executives
Say no without burning bridges
Handle technical debt, un-scoped work, and shifting priorities
You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room. You need to be the calmest, clearest, and most dependable. This book shows you how.
Written by a seasoned Solutions Architect who’s led dozens of teams across multimillion-dollar projects, The Technical Leader’s Field Guide is your no-nonsense playbook for succeeding in the role no one trains you for.
* Language: English
* Link to book page: https://technicalleadersguide.com/