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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).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. This is good.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

In other words, the goal is to understand an organization from the inside so well that the group can engage in constructive criticism. To counter this, one might consider adopting the model of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum or other techniques of rotating leaders like sortition.

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Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Cultures approach conflict differently. And when we’re moving through it, it can be constructive or destructive, depending on how we choose to interact. My undergrad was actually in cultural anthropology. Jennifer: Cultures approach conflict very differently. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad.

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Adaptive And Resilient Supply Chain Management: How John Deere Uses Scrum To Create Supply Chain Solutions In The Midst Of Disruption

scruminc

This blog is an excerpt of an upcoming case study that examines John Deere’s Agile culture, approach, and success. . Jay Strief, the Group Engineering Manager of Supply Chain Solutions, connects this success in part to managing through supply chain issues and puts it in personal terms. “The

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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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Nightmares in Employee Onboarding

LaunchDarkly

She shared about nightmares in employee onboarding for software engineers and strategies for avoiding them. Okay, hi, my name is Kristen Gallagher, I run a company called Edify and I build software engineering onboarding. I’m not a software engineer, but I like y’all a lot and I know how to work with you.

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A New Leadership Model with Jason Wong

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Jason: And so like when I’m at home, my wife knows all about, she’s in film and TV, she knows all about construction and building things. Marcus: That was the role in the software engineering group, I was a team lead. And I had to still code a lot and then I was supposed to manage a lot. Marcus: Right.