Gitprime
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. After all, Wijegunawardena has discovered that engineers learn best not by one-on-one consultation with a mentor, but by doing the work with their mentors and senior peers.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
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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Gitprime
DECEMBER 31, 2018
GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We What are we doing as a business?
Apiumhub
MAY 10, 2022
Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. Craft Conference will cover: Language agnostic methods, best practices (tdd, bdd, ddd, ci, cd, security, performance, service oriented architecture etc.)
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say.
Gitprime
MAY 30, 2019
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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