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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture.

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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. Making sure that leadership teams are in the loop and aligned and ready to answer questions before the rest of the individual contributors get the information has been super helpful for us.”.

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Putting the Emotion Into EQ with Etienne de Bruin

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Emotional intelligence is essential to good leadership, but many CTO’s stress the importance of IQ instead. To move from contributor to manager, it’s a good idea to invest the time to explore EQ, as well as personality profiles to better understand how to manage people. Managing expectations. Real leadership.