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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. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. And were an XP shop.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. OpenSesame had a pretty innovative approach to career development before I joined. They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members. These skill sets haven’t been defined yet.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation. Verdict: Jury’s still out on this one.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

purpose and vision, performance feedbacks, objectives and key results), or lead to personal growth and development (e.g., coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). test-driven development, pair programming, continuous delivery) and outcome performance (e.g.