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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

It is a living document after all! Much like last year, we still expect our charter to be a living document. We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. It was exciting for me to let other folks get their hands in it. What changed?

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

These are strategies that these three tech leaders have used in their organizations to improve connectivity and reduce isolation: DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. Documentation is key,” Armandpour says. “We We work with the presumption across the board that when your water cooler conversation turns into a decision, you must document it.”.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

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

Honeycomb

ICs may only come into contact with the outputs of this work in the form of an annual presentation or a summary document. Of course, there is engineering work that only fits into extended, quiet blocks of time and requires deep focus, but there was so much other stuff too.

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Outside-in Domain Landscape Discovery

Strategic Tech

An extract of a user journey showing key/high-level milestones Q: Is there a risk to using existing documentation, e.g A: There is always the risk that existing documentation is not up to date or reflects the perspective of a single person. This is what we want to end up with anyway for subsequent steps.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing. The technical writer creates technical documentation that describes the product’s functionality, usage, and so on. Adopt the most appropriate leadership type.