This book gathers the 60 essential principles that apply from the smallest startup to the largest enterprise, from developer to CTO — including tech leads and architects — to solve everyday problems.

NoBullshit Tech-Lead won’t sell you ready-made solutions or magic lists to become a perfect leader. It’s not yet another generic management guide or a manual to learn the basics of programming.

This book is for you if you recognize yourself in one of these cases:

• You juggle innovation and delivery: finding the right balance between tech, business and stakeholder expectations is your daily puzzle.
• You feel the complexity of your role: you want practical tools to simplify and structure your work without losing sight of what truly matters.
• You lead a technical team with ambition: pragmatism and authentic leadership are at the heart of your philosophy, but you want to go further.
• Organizational obstacles are slowing you down: you’re looking for clear, applicable strategies to avoid political and operational dead ends.
• You want to avoid the traps of rigid organizations: cultivating a team that takes initiative is your main goal.
• You refuse gut-based decisions: for you, choices must be informed, backed by data and aligned with a strategic vision.
• You want to understand humans as much as technology: leading a team isn’t just about code or methodologies.
• You learn by building: simple, effective principles speak to you, and you want to share these learnings with your team.

But a warning: this book won’t do the work for you. It will give you the keys to build your own leadership style, drawn from field lessons and adapted to the real challenges of your daily life.

The checklists will be sent by email as soon as the digital version of the book is complete.

NoBullshit books are, of course, DRM-free. We personalize each eBook with a license stamp in the PDF footer.

There’s no limit on printing or copy-pasting the PDF eBooks. You can also download your eBook as many times as you want and put it on as many devices as you like.

The digital book and the checklists in your pack are available as soon as your payment is confirmed, in your “My downloads” area. You also get a confirmation email.

The hardcover in the La Pépite. and À plusieurs c’est mieux. packs is on pre-order: it ships later, and we email you when it does. The digital content in those packs is delivered right away.

I was tired of always detecting the same problems and always applying the same principles to solve them. The goal of this book is therefore to centralize the patterns and their associated solutions.

It’s a condensed version of everything I wish I’d already known when I got started in tech.

Share the digital book and its checklists with up to 20 people in your company!

Buy the “À plusieurs c’est mieux.” package once, then share it across your organization.

The checklists are the result of several years of trial and error across various domains, from development to hiring to building a SaaS and a company from A to Z.

Each checklist has been carefully refined and reorganized over time. They are structured either as clear steps or filterable by company maturity level. They are updated at least once a month.

True to the single source of truth principle, the links to the checklists are always valid and point to the latest up-to-date version.