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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. It tends to snap back.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

I created a visualization of the major types of engineering work I saw our teams complete in a quarter: It’s easy to quibble with the specific labels and the categories I’ve stuck them under, and in another organization these might be the wrong set or the wrong categories. Interested in reading more about engineering management?

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. I had enough experience at early-stage startups to know that, if the company is successful, you’ll probably do a whole host of things as the company moves through different phases.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Despite many people shifting schedules to manage family responsibilities, we continued to ship about a dozen times every weekday. As Charity has repeated so frequently, shipping is the heartbeat of your organization. . Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

Despite many people shifting schedules to manage family responsibilities, we continued to ship about a dozen times every weekday. As Charity has repeated so frequently, shipping is the heartbeat of your organization. . Our existing deploy tooling and engineering culture made the transition to remote work go much more smoothly.

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How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

Honeycomb

Fostering a healthy engineering culture. Charity and James also talked about how the right organizational culture fosters a ——and, combined with the right tooling (aka observability)—the teams that embrace both generally lead the pack when it comes to higher performance. . Engineering Manager, Slack . “It’s

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Keeping all these people, who are working in different buildings and time zones and countries, connected to each other and the organization is one of the great obstacles of leading remote and distributed teams. Teams are focused around overlapping time zones, even though the organization as a whole draws from a worldwide talent pool.