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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

The use-cases we see are all net positive for the individual – helping them develop themselves professionally in an innovative manner – but there’s also a broad social benefit to Wilco in making professional development opportunities more accessible and equitable. We see the passion developers have for our problem space.

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Hire a Build and Release Engineer

Mobilunity

A software build engineer is beneficial for businesses that deal with software development and releases, of course. Difference Between Build Engineers and DevOps. Some people might think that a software release engineer overlaps in the responsibilities of a DevOps team.

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All about Machine Learning

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

So I would say that’s a trade-off that is important for all engineering managers to think about. So it is important for us to still try to maintain some of that virtually, of course. But generally speaking, I would say it is important for, engineering managers and leaders to be genuine, and also to be approachable.

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Speeding Up the Enterprise: Virtual Squads at InVision

LaunchDarkly

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Mike Marquez, CircleCI Senior Release Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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How Can I Maximise my Software Team’s Productivity?

Seerene

Often resembling an endless treadmill of balancing the interests of man and machine in the name of the abstract ideal of ‘’Results’’, the task of maximising a software team’s productivity preoccupies many engineering managers’ minds. Addressing these issues can be a simple, single step to unblocking an obstacle to productivity.

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The Importance of Trust and Communication with Tim Ottinger

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

The reality is – there is no universal safety net. Tim: Yeah, and, you know, of course, in some places… You know… The… You live in a more rural area. Tim: And of course, you shouldn’t trust everybody. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working.