Remove Coaching Remove Engineering Culture Remove Test-Driven Development
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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. This is a big cultural shift! And were an XP shop. You see, Extreme Programming is too.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far.