CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

Engineering Culture 194

Engineering Culture Culture Engineering Open Source 194

Xebia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our brains are naturally inclined to make assumptions and move on, as delving into complex matters consumes mental energy. Resistance to change, entrenched organizational cultures, and the theories’ complexity can pose significant barriers.

System 147

System Culture Software Training 147

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

Above a certain level, leadership promotions have to be about what the company needs, not the individual, and it was valuable to imagine together what a great VP of Engineering for Honeycomb might look like. The book covers many different engineering leadership roles and how one might work toward preparing for each.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. DevOps transformation is a symbiosis between top-down leadership commitment and bottom up change from the team level. Ultimately, employees’ time and energy were freed up to innovate and focus on other workplace activities.

DevOps 52

DevOps Disaster Recovery Coaching Quality Assurance 52

CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

The small signals get lost remotely, which means other things become much more important, like understanding people’s varying energy levels. When my colleagues in San Francisco start their work day, they’re high-energy and excited. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture.

Culture 134

Culture Engineering Performance Energy 134

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

Part-Time VPE 59

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 59

Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2021

One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. It is not normal, it is not necessary, it is costly as f**k.

Part-Time VPE 52

Part-Time VPE Technical Review Engineering Software Review 52