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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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Lexmark International’s Vishal Gupta on next gen tech leadership

CIO

As software and data move to the center of a company’s products and services, the background and skills of the executive leadership team must evolve. And when software shifts from enabling the revenue stream to being the revenue stream, the focus of the chief technologist must expand from internal productivity to the external market.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. We’ve collected a few of the best tech leadership books, so you can dive in with the best chance of success. Remember, that learning is key to success in any leadership position. Managing people is difficult wherever you work.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. The same applies to coaching.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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How Communities of Practice and Leadership Build Your Workforce Leadership Skills

Evolution4all

Communities of Practice and Leadership. Now the question is, how does CoP help in developing leadership skills among your employees? Is it possible to integrate leadership training in a CoP even if the centre of conversation of its members is all about their respective domains? Leadership as Starting Point. Leadership.