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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. And welcome to Test in Production for May 21st, 2020. Thank you for joining us.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. This approach reduces the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) — or the average time needed to recover your service from a failure.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. See the “Make Time for Learning” section.). Integrate all needed development skills into each team, such as testing and operations. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. Here, the output refers to the number of test cases (let’s assume that these test cases are simple) they executed in a month. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business? What is Workplace Productivity?

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The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done

Codegiant

This means out of the nine-hour shift, you’ll find an average employee being productive for less than three hours. Here, the output refers to the number of test cases (let’s assume that these test cases are simple) they executed in a month. That’s insane. How to Increase Productivity in Business?