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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture.

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

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies.

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Managing From Afar: How This Engineering Manager Tackles the Challenges of Remote Work

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Leading remote engineering teams comes with a suite of challenges. Being a remote manager is possible,” Kammah offers in conclusion. Then, be there to support them.”.

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

Managers can hold space and build a culture where mental health is prioritized, and being frank about promoting it sure helps. But managers are also not mental health professionals, which is why Buffer offers employees other avenues for seeking professional assistance and guidance. The problem isn’t promotions.

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Jason Wong’s Systematic Approach Toward an Inclusive Workplace

Gitprime

In today’s engineering world, those two concepts are continents apart. “By By default, our engineering organizations are wildly unsafe places for underrepresented minorities,” Jason Wong, Engineering Management Coach and Consultant, says. A Rubric for Evaluating Team Members’ Contributions to an Inclusive Culture.

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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.