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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2005 I got an opportunity at a Startup to transition my career into management. I had no idea about people management but decided to take this challenge. As I embarked on this new challenge, I realized that people management and building teams are something that I truly enjoy. I never looked back.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

1 To succeed with Agile, follow these steps: 1 The method in this book is primarily based on Extreme Programming, but it also draws inspiration from Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, the DevOps movement, and Lean Startup. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. Get Team Buy-In.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. .”

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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

And then after a brief stint as a software engineering manager at a small startup I went on to work at Google, where I joined this new nascent team called Site Reliability Engineering, and that teams goal is to be, as a previous speaker mentioned, the master of disaster for Google. Speaker 2: Admin. Eric Pollmann: Yes.