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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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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. We all know how frustrating it is to be stuck.

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

Altexsoft

In fact, there can be plenty of scenarios that vary depending on specific roles inside the cross-functional team. Source: Salestribe Advantages of cross-functional teams Building a cross-functional team inside the company can become beneficial for your business and there are multiple reasons why. UX/UI Designer.

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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. What I put up with becomes what I ask my whole team to put up with. But what did that look like, in practice?