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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. Resilience is an activity they perform, rather than a property attributable to the organization. That light touch frees them to sprinkle in more targeted interventions.

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

Gitprime

When decisions are made, you make sure that they flow through the right channels and the right people in the right direction,” Muntz advises. Neither extreme allowed her teams to perform consistently or efficiently. “I Then they’ll have a dedicated culture buddy who’s often from a different team,” she says. “We