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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.” Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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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. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Without it, the mismatch between your teams’ Agile practices and your organization’s non-Agile culture will cause constant friction. Counterintuively.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Team and organisational level topics, best practices (agile, devops etc.)

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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). VP: The VP is typically the highest point on the tree for gathering everyone in a function.