article thumbnail

Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

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. The post Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena appeared first on GitPrime.

article thumbnail

Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

I think data scientists are thinking that their simple data pipeline is what data engineering is. In the past, a data engineer performed the really difficult data engineering behind the scenes and the data scientists didn’t have to deal with it. They could have used a general-purpose compute engine and been better off.

article thumbnail

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.

Agile 103