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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. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization.

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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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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. how companies are funded, who our leaders must answer to, and what incentives the business as a whole has). Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

A sought after speaker and coach, Mala Gupta’s Java books with Manning Publications, USA, are top-rated for Oracle Certification around the globe. She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. 5 – Chiu-Ki Chan. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Listen to more than 70 speakers coming from the biggest companies like Ebay, Google, Spotify, IBM and NASA introducing you to some exciting topics, like: Software Design Open Source Security Architectural Design Service Mesh Apache APISIX. that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. Craft Conference has a special vibe.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Where do you put the contracts in place?

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

You’ve figured out which investments your company needs to make. Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Invest in Change.

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