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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

In an older organization, this is a C-level executive who investigates the technology trends and implements them within the product in accordance with the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. Welcome, Monica! I never looked back.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Scaling startups are often concerned with the first inflection point of their team size.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. I am VP of Engineering over there.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

.” The CEO who said that to me was a successful entrepreneur who had grown his startup into a 25-person marketing company serving hundreds of brands. If “strategy” is how you define and implement a framework for success, strategic debt is what accrues when you neglect the necessary maintenance of that framework.