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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

The purpose of recurring meetings also changes somewhat: the most valuable signal I listen for in many recurring meetings is information about how and when we need to deviate from our plans, rather than how we can best stick to them. The nature of these tradeoffs has changed though, as I have moved up the management ladder.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

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. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

This leads to endless meetings where engineering management get involved to discuss what's to be built, how to break up dependencies in manageable chunks and delegate them to various teams. Either they try to build perfect products or worse use their time to perfect their code by excessive re-factoring and re-engineering.

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

Gitprime

These include how to counter isolation and silos by keeping teams in the loop, how to handle time zone differences, what to look for in the hiring process, and onboarding strategies for remote engineers. How do you keep remote and distributed teams in the loop and prevent the feeling that people are siloed and isolated?

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

It’s not always easy, but Rich believes that it can be done through a better understanding of how the two cultures work along with constant education and communication. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Because it is—sales is much more of an individual sport. Show Notes.

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

It’s not always easy, but Rich believes that it can be done through a better understanding of how the two cultures work along with constant education and communication. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Because it is—sales is much more of an individual sport. Show Notes.