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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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Report Finds Software Engineering Productivity Gains

DevOps.com

An analysis of the time 23,000 software engineers spent working in 2021 that was published this week by Jellyfish, a provider of an engineering management platform (EMP), finds cycle times on average were down to 12.6 The post Report Finds Software Engineering Productivity Gains appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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Article: Q&A on the Book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities.

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Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020

DevOps.com

In the world of software engineering, we feel this acutely as all eyes are on the engineering team to continue building innovative new products and solutions—maintaining […]. The post Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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Interview with Annie Freeman, Green Software Expert

Apiumhub

At Apiumhub , we have started a series of interviews with green software experts to raise awareness about green software. Our first interview was with Paola Annis , engineering manager at Microsoft and founding member of the Green Software Foundation , and now we had the pleasure of having an interview with Annie Freeman.