Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

The practice of one on ones is important in connecting to a team. @6:44. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy-high performing software teams. And you’d be like, ouch, it sounds like it’s bad news, but it was really good news.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

How OverOps Can be Used as a Learning Platform for Junior Developers [link] pic.twitter.com/xerkcfvGur. Perceived (and actual) performance. Customers, then, define how closely the functionality meets their needs, if application innovation is going in a promising direction and if the performance is acceptable. NEW POST ??

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 22, 2020

And then two years later, I switched to the engineering side of the organization where I currently lead team-building marketing automation solutions, bringing Data Science and Machine Learning to solve these problems for our customers. So, for example, let’s say a customer opens up an investigation.

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LaunchDarkly

JULY 17, 2020

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

APRIL 11, 2018

The two positions are not interchangeable—and misperceptions of their roles can hurt teams and compromise productivity. It’s important to understand the differences between a data engineer and a data scientist. Misunderstanding or not knowing these differences are making teams fail or underperform with big data.

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Gitprime

AUGUST 15, 2019

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. That’s our sprint-by-sprint purpose in a nutshell.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Analyzing data generated within the enterprise — for example, sales and purchasing data — can lead to insights that improve operations. That’s why Uri Beitler launched Pliops , a startup developing what he calls “data processors” for enterprise and cloud data centers. Image Credits: Pliops.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy high performing software teams. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. Links: Sponsor: GitPrime.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. Lara: Yeah, I’m guessing you are talking about these new manager care packages. But like, what if we made a care package for new managers?” Transcript.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. How the doubling rate resulted in a lack of leaders that can develop an industry discipline (6:34). Developing a common language of change in the trade (24:24).

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. I am VP of Engineering over there.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Is conflict always a bad thing? Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad. Conflict may be uncomfortable, but it is not always bad. Tension provokes uncertainty which can then change dynamics of individuals or even teams. So, I am a Conflict Management Practitioner and Leadership Development Consultant.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 26, 2022

This demand gave birth to cloud data warehouses that offer flexibility, scalability, and high performance. Examples are JSON, XML, and Avro files. Developed in 2012 and officially launched in 2014, Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform provided as a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution with a completely new SQL query engine.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How efficient is the team? Transcript.

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LaunchDarkly

JUNE 12, 2020

On May 21, for the Test in Production Meetup on Twitch , Yoz Grahame, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, moderated a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Murphey, Senior Technical PM at Indeed, and Ben Vinegar, VP of Engineering at Sentry. Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role.

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

Leaders of distributed engineering teams shouldn’t have to work up solutions to these problems from scratch. So we held a panel discussion with three of today’s top engineering leaders to discuss approaches and lessons learned in building, growing, and maintaining remote and distributed teams.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. You’ve decided that Agile will make your teams more successful. Performance and morale decline.

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Mobilunity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Nearly 47% of respondents said they would be employing a DevOps or DevSecOps approach to software development in 2022. Software development and IT operations are combined in the process known as “DevOps.” The Reasons to Hire Freelance DevOps Engineer. Key Skills and Responsibilities for Remote DevOps Engineer.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Bad management and leadership comes from somewhere above you with expectations that came into the company a long time ago. @7:43. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Programmingleadership.com.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How efficient is the team? Transcript.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Admitting you’re afraid and need help and being vulnerable is a sign of strength not a weakness. @13:48. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. ” No, the poor man just walked into the bathroom.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. When you were little, did you want to be a manager?

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How do we improve in the area of product management? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Ellen Gottesdiener, President of EBG Consulting, discuss ways companies can better oversee the development and lifecycle of a product in its entirety. Managing the work vs. the product (19:19). EBG Consulting.

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Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

When startups are first setting out, the initial team is small and usually solving relatively discrete (albeit central) problems. But at scale, the quantity and size of the problems grow larger than a single manageable team can handle. asks Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork.

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

She shared about nightmares in employee onboarding for software engineers and strategies for avoiding them. “So, the story of the too big, too fast team. On a dark and stormy night, a team was gifted with ten new hires, which is such a good gift right? A too big, too fast team. Male: The team splits.

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Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Cross-team interactions felt fraught; focus was constantly shifting; nobody was ever sure what bar we were being measured against.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Organizations contribute to keeping uncompassionate patterns in place (higher pay and special treatment for coders for example). @18:01. Everybody has the capacity to develop compassion; it’s about how we direct our energy, time, and effort. @21:29. Pausing, or taking a beat, to think is often the beginning of compassion. @25:20.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 24, 2020

To take it a step further, if such an algorithm is trained in an environment with cars driven by humans, how can you expect it to perform well on roads with other self-driving cars? Re-analyzing existing data is often very bad.” For example, one analyst may throw out data with missing values, another may infer the missing values.

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