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How OverOps Can be Used as a Learning Platform for Junior Developers

OverOps

Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Historically, the role of passing down the wisdom that comes from developer experience has been delegated to the system architects, lead developers and engineering managers. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic.

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Managing engineering managers is not all just rainbows and unicorns, right?

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. We share a lot of experience with metrics and monitoring technologies, although she kind of despises them and I feel a profound affection for them.

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Investing in Career Growth & Team Development – Advice From 3 Engineering Leaders

Gitprime

As engineering managers and leaders, our job of course is to help our teams deliver value to the organization and its customers. Yet from a higher level, our role is to ensure that both engineers and teams continue to grow and develop. So what exactly does career growth mean, and how can managers and leaders invest in it?

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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. coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Resources refer to characteristics that help to cope with demands (e.g.,

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

As a bare minimum, I can think of an engineering organisation of 6 Spotify like squads with each team consisting of 8-10 people including engineers (frontend/backend), BA, PO, and an agile coach. That's an overall engineering organisation of 55+ people including engineering leaders, chapter leads, etc.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. To help out, were supporting the career ladder changes with an XP coaching team. Every open headcount Ive gotten since I joined has gone towards hiring very senior XP coaches.