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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. team autonomy, information flow, alignment between teams, support for taking risk, organisational culture), or functional in attaining goals (e.g.

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How OverOps Can be Used as a Learning Platform for Junior Developers

OverOps

Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Historically, the role of passing down the wisdom that comes from developer experience has been delegated to the system architects, lead developers and engineering managers. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic.

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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Cultures approach conflict differently. One thing you said, I’m just curious about this, as a brief aside, do you think… have you found in your research that all cultures feel the same way about conflict through time and across the globe? My undergrad was actually in cultural anthropology. Show Notes.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

Both models work on the scale, particularly when the company's core values, priorities, and culture all three are well aligned. As a bare minimum, I can think of an engineering organisation of 6 Spotify like squads with each team consisting of 8-10 people including engineers (frontend/backend), BA, PO, and an agile coach.

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

According to Rich, this is the result of two very different work cultures existing in the same organization – one that’s collaborative and one that’s highly individualistic. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.