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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Mantle and Ron Lichty propose to make programmers and software teams manageable.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. They need to establish the development and support process and development culture. Is there a lot of rework?

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As with traditional software, the best way to achieve your goals is to put something out there and iterate. Microsoft , LinkedIn , and Airbnb have been especially candid about their journeys towards building an experiment-driven culture and the technology required to support it. This is particularly true for AI products. Deployment.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

Just some of these topics include emerging trends, product management, career advancement, diversity and culture, and team skill development. We’d be sure not to miss “Driving Innovation through Diversity” by Grace Francisco, VP of Developer Relations at Roblox, and “The Future of Software Development” by Rod Cope, CTO of Rogue Wave Software.

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

We talked about strategy (what we would work on), culture (the kind of people we wanted to hire, valuing engineering and research equally), and tactics (hold a daily reading group). Technical leadership should call the shots while still doing hands-on technical work. Fortunately, I did not have to go it alone.