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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We The manager is the fundamental building block of organizations with more than eight people. Why management matters.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. As a company scales, it’s inevitable that individuals will grow farther removed from other people, projects, and initiatives in the organization. We’re all going in the same direction.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Lara: Of course there’s a donut in there, you know a little merit badge that says kept going because we got to celebrate the fact that this yeah. And when you said tools, of course, I started thinking about spreadsheets, and then I realized it’s a box. She hired me to be a fractional VP of Engineering at Meetup.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Attackers Pounce on Unpatched Vulns, DBIR Says, as Critical Infrastructure Orgs Benefit from CISA’s Alert Program

Tenable

Plus, a CISA program is helping critical infrastructure organizations prevent ransomware attacks. government program that helps critical infrastructure organizations fend off ransomware attackers resulted in the mitigation of vulnerabilities in 850-plus devices last year. And get the latest on the Change Healthcare breach.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There is a gradual recognition of the need for data engineering. I’m hoping my body of work will educate organizations on this critical need. Even when organizations have data science and data engineering teams, there is still a lack of appreciation for the work that went into the data engineering side.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

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. That’s why organizations need to set aside time for learning Agile (see the “Make Time for Learning” section).

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