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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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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. 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).

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. ” he said.

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. ” he said.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Exactly how disruptive it is depends on how many teams are affected and how well you manage the change. If you have one team that’s eager to try Agile with your organization’s full support, it doesn’t have to be a big deal. If you’re trying to change 50 teams in an organization that’s unfamiliar with Agile ideas.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Choose the zones that your organization both needs and is willing to pay for , as described in the “Choose Your Zones” section at the end of the previous chapter. In the West, it’s come to mean a process of continuous gradual improvement: constantly reviewing and improving your practices at all levels of the organization. probably not.

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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

They also discuss why the industrial model of work is so unsatisfying, the real reason why good workers leave organizations, and the importance of luck. Why good workers leave the organization (18:05). The real-life challenges leaders face when implementing change in their organizations (31:40). GeePaw: Humans are organisms.