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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

For over a decade, two similar concepts — DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) — have been coexisting in the world of software development. In essence, two methodologies do the same thing: They try to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. What is DevOps?

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Your feedback is appreciated!

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. Our team has spent days preparing this guide to help you understand how to make the most out of every day. Whereas, in June, your team manufactured 10,000 pairs of shoes. That’s insane.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Cross-team interactions felt fraught; focus was constantly shifting; nobody was ever sure what bar we were being measured against.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Engineers having seen that, then it turned into an Engineering 1 job, helping fix bugs and work on their software. Transcript. What a guy. Marcus: I do.