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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering). She wasn’t born a manager, though—like many engineering leaders, she started out doing multiple front-end development jobs.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. Like it’s exciting to have this new opportunity, new sets of skills to develop, but also, it’s a lot of responsibility, and people get no training. Transcript.

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

Gitprime

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Pounce on Unpatched Vulns, DBIR Says, as Critical Infrastructure Orgs Benefit from CISA’s Alert Program

Tenable

“While the adoption of artificial intelligence to gain access to valuable corporate assets is a concern on the horizon, a failure to patch basic vulnerabilities has threat actors not needing to advance their approach,” Chris Novak, Verizon’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity Consulting said in a statement this week.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Second Edition cover.

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