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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

I’ve noted several ideas that might be characterized as “passive” in this blog post. Once those passive maneuvers are up and running, the CoPE members merely need to perform regular check-ins, or play their own part if they are participants of the relevant social institution.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I understand why: the stakes for public comment become higher as you move up the ladder, every social media post has the potential to be interpreted as a subtweet or request, and your highest-priority work is often deeply entangled with confidential company and personnel matters.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

People often end up pairing when there’s a need, or a desire for social contact, and sometimes these turn into huge group sessions that last for hours when nobody watches time , with everybody doing their thing and working almost as if we were sitting right next to each other. I love all of our social Slack rooms.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. Wildfires and hurricanes didn’t take a vacation in 2020, and our distributed team managed to get hit with both simultaneously, multiple times. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. Wildfires and hurricanes didn’t take a vacation in 2020, and our distributed team managed to get hit with both simultaneously, multiple times. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

She offers more tips in this blog post, “ Ask Miss O11y: I Don’t Want to be On Call Anymore. Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s It’s hard to have one piece of practical advice because a team of engineers is a living, breathing entity. Am I a Monster?