TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

” “We’ve found over time that … leadership tends to care for metrics that are closer to larger business outcomes. In other words, leadership cares for the forest and not the trees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Equally, we’re seeing really interesting things happening with large, traditional healthcare organizations and with government leadership,” Hultman Kramer added. Daily has real platform potential — it’s a great product with stellar engineering culture, coupled with Kwin’s experience building video for the enterprise.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 14, 2022

For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. By Lilac Mohr.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 6, 2021

She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes. Her lessons on team management, building company culture, hiring and mentorship are not to be missed!

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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. Within IT, DevOps answers the global call for organizational transformation. How do we bring this to life?

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Xebia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Resistance to change, entrenched organizational cultures, and the theories’ complexity can pose significant barriers. Addressing these challenges requires a thoughtful approach, including tailored training, leadership commitment, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and adaptation.

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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.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” Core leadership skills is one.” But most of us are mere mortals,” he says.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. The final part is leadership. Different stakeholders usually assign different levels of importance to each of those needs, creating a conflict which also blocks progress on making a decision.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” In order to better communicate and build better products, DevOps became one of the most critical positions in every company.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

Things either swing entirely out of control, or wise leadership steps in with some "process" to restore the balance. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized. Experience with the chaotic none-process can often lead people to believe that any and all processes are a good thing.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. The best thing is, this type of culture comes almost for free when you treat developers extremely well (as discussed previously).

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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.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Chaos Engineering is perceived as a technical practice. The post Chaos Engineering as management practice appeared first on Xebia Blog. However, it can be leveraged as a management practice to create a safe environment for individuals and teams. It is one of the practices that an organisation can leverage to be anti-fragile.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. Last year, I wrote How We Define SRE Work. This article described how I came up with the charter for the SRE team, which we bootstrapped right around then. It’s been a while. We are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts of spheres.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. We could mitigate against that, by voting for leadership and setting term limits to prevent people from settling in.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 6, 2023

Because of this, it’s especially rewarding for Honeycomb to be recognized recently for the work we do within our metaphorical walls, with Comparably naming us in over ten different categories , including “Best Company Outlook,” “Best Company for Diversity,” “Best Leadership Teams,” and “Best Company Culture.”

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that. .”

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com. If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […].

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Adopt the most appropriate leadership type. While strong leadership isn’t always essential for making a cross-functional team work, it’s still important to consider the leadership approach. Get to know more about the Spotify engineering culture.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. Sergey: I think I would respond with sort of a catchy phrase from our Netflix culture deck.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Making sure that leadership teams are in the loop and aligned and ready to answer questions before the rest of the individual contributors get the information has been super helpful for us.”. The technical aspects of onboarding are going to happen with their teams, where leadership is really about the cultural onboarding,” Muntz says.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Perhaps the most important aspect of discovery is embedding it in your culture and making it a continuous activity for leaders and for makers. Unfortunately, making continuous design & discovery part of your engineering culture cannot be achieved in a single workshop.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

People also start to see you less as an individual and more as a general avatar for “management” or “leadership,” with folks in your replies sometimes taking you to task for past bad experiences with other leaders. Random people showed up in my DMs weeks later trying to sell me products and prototypes they had put together based on the tweet.)

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. Making this transition … proved highly challenging for our business colleagues, especially culturally. But I tip my hat to them.

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