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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The best salesperson does not always make the best sales manager. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager.

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Developer Experience at Netlify

Netlify

I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” At the time, I had never written an article, been to a conference, or participated in open source. As such, when I joined Netlify, the team and I worked to alter our composition and strategy. I thought it sounded amazing.

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How to Scope Down PRs

Netlify

One of the most valuable skills one can possess as a developer is to learn how to scope down your work into manageable pull requests (PRs). We’ll dive into some of those whys, and then move on to the hows: the processes you can use to scope PRs down, as well as who on your team can assist. It’s easier to test.

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The Good and the Bad of Snowflake Data Warehouse

Altexsoft

For everyone who is considering Snowflake as a part of their technology stack, this article is a great place to start the journey. Developed in 2012 and officially launched in 2014, Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform provided as a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution with a completely new SQL query engine.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Given the similar type of environments, two teams with the same level of engagement may have different levels of performance - one can be high-performing another average performing.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Determining a CoPE’s Efficacy—and Everything After

Honeycomb

As discussed in the first article in this series, a Center of Production Excellence (CoPE) is a more or less formal, provisional subsystem within an organization. Signs of success To begin, we’ll return to the model developed by Hébert-Dufresne et al. Revising those conventions once they’ve gone stale. These alone are not enough.