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Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Two and a half millennia later, we were now using the ancient basis for illness to describe employee personalities, and what we could do to better team culture in the workplace. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Hippocrates, who? The Greek physician Hippocrates (ca. Interesting, hmmm….

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Sustainable Software Talks and Latest News About Green Software

Apiumhub

Annie Freeman, Green Software advocate and engineer at Xero, delivered a compelling speech titled “ How Software Engineers Can Help Solve Climate Change ,” while Paola E. Illustrating Microsoft’s commitment to sustainability, the Sweden data center stands out and it operates entirely on renewable energy sources.

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Exploring the transition from Developer to Engineering Manager

Seerene

Having begun as an Engineer with my company, Seerene, I transitioned from this role to a position as Engineering Manager some two months ago. Just as any individual would when they’re about to start in a new position, I started familiarising myself with blog posts and other literature written by seasoned managers.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Having someone dedicated to management, Nightingale says, is the difference between a group of individuals and a team that’s unified in their efforts. Good engineering managers are also connecting individuals with new challenges,” he says. Go focus all your energy and innovation on that. Hiring for culture fit.

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Reflecting on the Future of Software Architecture: GSAS 2023

Apiumhub

This is my third year speaking at the Global Software Architecture Summit, and I love seeing the energy—just the growth. When participants come from various countries, they bring with them different cultural perspectives, problem-solving approaches, and technological insights. The attendees are fantastic, as are the speakers.

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

Honeycomb

Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.