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

Gitprime

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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