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Continuous learning gives U.S. Bank a technology talent edge

CIO

Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. Diversity is a key component of our team building because true innovation and problem-solving comes from people with different perspectives.

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

They utilize the project or product created through the collective efforts of the original product team, external contributors, and trusted committers. By leveraging these contributions, consumers meet their needs, provide usability feedback, and enjoy ongoing enhancements.

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Is the Paved Road right for you?

Xebia

In her 2017 OSCON presentation , Netflix’s Dianne Marsh describes the Paved Road as ‘ A concept, formalizing a set of expectations and commitments between the centralized teams and our engineering customers ’. This means that a central team builds and (mostly) maintains the Paved Road for the benefit of its developer clients.

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Forbes names CircleCI to America's Best Startup Employers list

CircleCI

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Remove blockers. Drive toward alignment.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

However, building and managing effective cross-functional collaboration among employees can be challenging. For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise. Quality assurance engineer.

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

Honeycomb

Alignment is your most important deliverable Most execs — at least the good ones — spend a lot of time on something that can be completely invisible to their teams: building alignment at the executive level. Are our teams thriving? But what did that look like, in practice? Is there friction?