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Key skills tech leaders need to secure a board seat

CIO

We have a formal Cyber-Risk Oversight Certificate Program for our members, created in partnership with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Ridge Global. It’s the fourth edition, and been distributed to our 23,000 members and made available to the public.

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Book review: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri

Wolk Software Engineering

I’m a software engineer, not a product manager, product designer or product owner. Melissa also founded the online school Product Institute and started a program to train the next generation of Chief Product Officers. As the CEO and founder of Produx Labs, she helps companies effectively scale their product organizations.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Lean was introduced to software a couple of decades ago. This working paper was submitted as a chapter in The International Handbook of Lean Organization , Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. Open source was (and is) known to be a brutal but effective training ground for software engineers.

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Why I’m Grateful For Our Observability Community

Honeycomb

We should all train ourselves to take moments throughout the year to say thanks. In Google’s SRE handbook there’s a chapter dedicated to conducting post-mortems which are a necessary part of learning. For one thing, gratitude is proven to bring both physical and psychological health, enhance empathy, and reduce aggression.