Netlify

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I gave a lightning talk at the Virtual CTO Summit in July in which I mapped out our approach to metrics. Our engineering team—like so many in 2020—are distributed across the U.S. So, metrics must be a positive driver for the culture you want to build. You might have other “soft” metrics that matter more in your culture.

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Erik Bernhardsson

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. Let’s dissect an classic management objective: headcount goals. That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Headcount goals.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

As I embarked on this new challenge, I realized that people management and building teams are something that I truly enjoy. I have been fortunate that as I moved from one industry to another, I was able to develop my engineering management experiences and align with the business needs. I never looked back.

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Erik Bernhardsson

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. Let’s dissect an classic management objective: headcount goals. That then gets distributed across the org recursively, and every hiring manager gets a target for how many people to hire. Headcount goals.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What’s your favorite part about the engineering culture (or company culture) at Netlify? Being able to have honest 1:1s with my manager and seeing results come from it. Ownership and trust are some of the best features of our culture for me. I really like the interactions I have with my teammates!

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 26, 2019

This time we wanted to hear how the culture of failure (avoiding failure, recovering from failure, and learning from failure) has an impact on how teams test in production. Ben Woskow, Engineering Manager at LaunchDarkly, talked about why failures aren’t exclusively negative events. First, who am I?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Unsatisfied with leadership of senior management. Unsatisfied with work environment and culture. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture by Kim S. Marcus: Now, the third point here, the third reason why professionals left their jobs, was they were unsatisfied with the work environment and culture. Gitprime.com.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 18, 2020

After we performed our regular incident reviews, our CTO, Charity Majors , suggested a meta-incident review where we could step back, consider multiple incidents at the same time, look for underlying patterns, and reflect on where we might need to change our systems or practices. The meta-review.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 2, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: It’s fun and it’s why culture’s really, really hard. Michael: No, I didn’t. Marcus: Yeah.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: It’s fun and it’s why culture’s really, really hard. Michael: No, I didn’t. Marcus: Yeah.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Cultural and organisational impacts and opportunities for the JAMstack. After her work as an engineering manager at a number of technology companies she has emerged as a leading voice in strategies for UI frameworks and architectures. Our main themes are: Modern browser capabilities and development techniques.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am a CTO type. Became a software developer, senior software engineer, engineering manager, and then CTO to a few companies. I know, but I really thought that I was a fantastic CTO. Managing distributed remote teams is really hard. Tell me a little bit about yourself and the work you do with 7CTOs.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

Shoup himself has worked as an engineering leader with several companies of various sizes during periods of intense scaling over the last three decades. This is where organizational culture comes into play. To scale your teams and technology successfully, you need a culture built on the three legs of minimum viable products.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Marcus: You know I hear so many people talk about The Manager’s Path as being just foundational to them and I just can’t help but start with a question just really broadly, what inspired that book? Camille: Yeah, so I am the head platform engineering at Two Sigma, which is a quantitative hedge fund here in New York City.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

and so like you know as a manager, I have a director who is my boss. As a director, you have a VP or a CTO as your boss. As a CTO you have a CEO as your boss. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Everyone is following someone. All your investors. Jason: Totally.

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