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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Its a big spreadsheet which describes each title in our engineering organization, along with the skills required to reach each title. For example, Associate Software Engineers are hired fresh out of university. This is a big cultural shift!

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.