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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. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Technical Leads Technical Leads are the backbone of a team. Too many, possibly.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. To counter this, one might consider adopting the model of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum or other techniques of rotating leaders like sortition. This is nothing new.

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

Gitprime

When decisions are made, you make sure that they flow through the right channels and the right people in the right direction,” Muntz advises. The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.