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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Performance and morale decline. Feelings of chaos decrease, morale improves, and performance climbs. Performance has stabilized at a higher level than before the change, and continues to increase gradually as people experiment with further small changes. If not, you can hire consultants. Some days are good; some are bad.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Overall, it shows the approximate portions of the two groups who can and cannot create data pipelines. Yes, some data engineers can’t create a moderately complicated data pipeline. I think data scientists are thinking that their simple data pipeline is what data engineering is. Conversely, most data scientists can’t, either.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

In addition, Agile practices often perform double- and triple-duty, solving multiple software development problems simultaneously and supporting each other in clever and surprising ways. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. It was a very small little consulting practice. The interesting thing about that is that I decided to stop focusing on consulting and to start trying to build products.