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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The best salesperson does not always make the best sales manager. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager.

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Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns

DevOps.com

We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding.

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. Technical skills By analyzing technical skills, you’ll be able to understand if the engineering candidate fits the role or not. This makes evaluating the engineer a painful process.

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How To Master Market Segmentation

Crunchbase News

By Tracy Young In go-to-market organizations, segmentation underpins strategic decision-making, influencing how markets are approached, internal organization, product development and resource allocation. This lack of coordination drains resources and frustrates teams.

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Talks With Software Development Experts Initiative – Part 3

Apiumhub

Welcome to the third and last part of our Talks With Software Development Experts series. As we have mentioned before, this initiative is a section where we interview software engineers and industry experts to learn more about their professions, efforts, hobbies, and perspectives on a variety of tech-related issues. Check them out!

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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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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced. Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Performance refers to behavior as well as outcomes.