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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. But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. And in some transformations, the team also has an agile technical coach who teaches the team new practices and techniques from Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE. The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level.

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Developing High-Performance Agile Coaches

Cutter Consortium

This program developed by Cutter Senior Consultant Jon Ward employs an apprenticeship style of blended learning that includes theory and practice to provide a clear, pragmatic understanding of the art of agile coaching over the course of fourteen weeks. Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

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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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6 Tips to Become a Better Software Engineer

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 3 minutes Being a Software Engineer is always a bumpy ride. There are a lot of books, lectures, and videos about how to be a good Software Engineer. I recently read “The good software development manifesto” by Andrew C. Code is communication with people. Code is communicating with people.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

After leaving Equinix in 2019, he hiked the Camino de Santiago in Spain, became a life coach through UC Davis Extension, and in 2020, took a Stanford philosophy course on the meaning of life. Looking back, Lillie realized that as a father of four and 20 years spent coaching youth sports, this purpose statement has been central from early on.

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Byteboard nabs $5M seed to change the way engineers get hired

TechCrunch

As Kaur put it, when an NBA team is evaluating a basketball player, the coaches don’t have him outline plays on a whiteboard in the locker room. She said it’s a similar dynamic in engineering interviews, and Byteboard is designed to be the gym. They have him make plays in the gym.