Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts
Juan Pablo Buriticá and James Turnbull
• Title: Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts• Sub Title: Navigating Chaos to Build Teams That Deliver• Authors: by Juan Pablo Buriticá and James Turnbull
• Copyright © 2026 Worthwhile Technology LLC and James Turnbull.• Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc.
• Chapter 1 to 11• The first part focuses on understanding your role, navigating chaos, setting directions and strategy, and building your team’s resilience and skills:• 1 Understanding what chaos and its symptoms look like
• 2 Understanding your role and creating leadership foundations
• 3 Navigating your role in chaotic environments and learning how to deal with the challenges that chaotic environments throw at you
• 4 Building your team into people who thrive in chaos
• 5 Setting direction for your team
• The second half of the book focuses on techniques that you can use to deliver software and set your team up for technical success:
• 6 Shipping products and code in chaotic environments
• 7 Budgeting, costs, and dealing with vendors
• 8 Developing technical strategy and principles that are resilient to chaos
• 9 Building collaboration and making technical decisions in a chaotic world
• 10 Metrics that help your team navigate the chaos
• 11 Wrapping it all up—bringing together the principles and techniques
• Intro on Back Cover:• Whether they’re building a startup or scaling an established org, engineering leaders know the real job is keeping chaos under control. In a world of shifting priorities, scarce resources, and rapid change, leadership means embracing the unknown, managing moving targets, and creating clarity where there’s none. Sometimes, you’re building the plane as you’re flying it, writing the roadmap as you go, designing processes in real time. • Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts cuts through the noise, offering a guide for tackling these gritty, real-world challenges. Current and future leaders, this is your toolkit. It’s packed with principles, techniques, and mental models for thriving in
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