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

Honeycomb

I understand why: the stakes for public comment become higher as you move up the ladder, every social media post has the potential to be interpreted as a subtweet or request, and your highest-priority work is often deeply entangled with confidential company and personnel matters.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. Wildfires and hurricanes didn’t take a vacation in 2020, and our distributed team managed to get hit with both simultaneously, multiple times. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

We’ve witnessed or directly experienced racist injustice, social unrest, and state violence. Wildfires and hurricanes didn’t take a vacation in 2020, and our distributed team managed to get hit with both simultaneously, multiple times. Though our deploy velocity remained the same, the engineering org has been far from stagnant.

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

Like you’re giving them a certain amount of social capital. Ramin: So, speaking from the infrastructure side, which tends to be different, the joke we had on our team was you’re your own grandpa which meant we had no product manager, no project manager, no QA. Everybody do the handshake, be nice to them.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The most important findings in the book were: The development processes of high performing companies focused on fast time-to-market, excellent product quality, and high engineering productivity (i.e. A leader (responsible engineer, product manager) who guides the team toward good decisions. This is lean.