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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. But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Just as the ladder sets new expectations of engineers, the management track sets new expectations for managers, with material about managing the system rather than just managing the work. Software Engineer Software Engineers contribute to the work of their team without explicit guidance.

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

CircleCI

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. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Dig in deeper with this intermediate-level session with Jayashree S Kumar, a Software Engineer at IBM’s India Software Labs. Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? Have you let testing fall to the wayside? See you there?

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. The certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers.

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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Coaches like Green help them to hone their skills and go through rituals more effectively. There are a number of different engineering practices that you can work on in a dojo environment. There are a number of different engineering practices that you can work on in a dojo environment. David: Sure. What is the dojo?

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. 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. So I told the truth.