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

Honeycomb

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

This normalized parenting in a way I’ve never experienced in a job before: one point from today's incident review "what went well" section: > [employee] felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident. We now have a 1:2 ratio of product managers to designers, which is super unusual.

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

Altexsoft

In this post, we explore the concept of cross-functional teams in product development , discuss the benefits and challenges of running a cross-functional team, and give practical recommendations for building it. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing.

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

It was good we had that conversation because I had done the last thing at the last startup where I was a department of one and I had built a system that only I had enough context to run. Yoz: There are some kinds of failure that you’re not going to know about because they don’t involve system failure.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.