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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. She is the author of the book “ Explore It!: A sought after speaker and coach, Mala Gupta’s Java books with Manning Publications, USA, are top-rated for Oracle Certification around the globe.

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

He’s authored no less than seven books about software development and has been a columnist for a number of software publications. John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. He write books, gives presentations and talks. DevOps influencers. Martin Fowler. John Arundel. Jez Humble.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

It’s easy because, in most cases, they can start with one of the many off-the-shelf Agile methods, like the one in this book. So, although it’s tempting to customize your Agile method from the beginning, it’s best to start out with a by-the-book approach. Parts II-IV of this book describe the practices for each zone.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If you’re using this book as the basis for your change, provide copies, and tell people which parts you’re using. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. The VP liked what I had to say. Reaching the Economic Buyer.

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering). Yet she’s worked with a lot of engineering leaders where that internal drive—and the resulting fulfillment—weren’t the case.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone). Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. But what about big-picture strategy? At my company, strategy is decided by our Leadership team, which consists of our CEO and heads of Product, Marketing, Sales, Partners, Content, Finance, and so forth. It cant be done.