Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. Agile is a company way of working, not an IT one.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Culture will eat any structure. Chapters meet regularly to discuss problems and share learnings in their field. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Their approach grew from their people and their culture. We need to create cultures that promote this mindset.

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Honeycomb

MAY 14, 2024

It was at this juncture that Josh joined the project, reminding his peers that they already had a reliable solution meeting those criteria: Honeycomb. Honeycomb has played a pivotal role in this transformation, underscoring its importance in our journey towards a more sustainable and fulfilling engineering culture ,” Josh explained.

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CircleCI

MAY 28, 2020

My teams are distributed across the globe, and most times, my teammates are reduced to pixels in Zoom meetings, Slack chats, and emails. When I joined CircleCI in 2018, I met with everyone in our engineering organization because I wanted to get to know the people we were working with. Combat hero culture and fix structural issues.

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Confluent

MAY 23, 2019

Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” We rightly spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to build things, so it was good to step back and see how our engineering work can drive internal cultural change as well.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By leveraging these contributions, consumers meet their needs, provide usability feedback, and enjoy ongoing enhancements. By harnessing these patterns, organizations can streamline their development workflows, cultivate a culture of transparency, and drive innovation through collective efforts.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

As customers, we are pushing companies, which in turn push their employees to meet the increasing expectations. You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling. As consumers and end-users of software, our expectations are continually rising.

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Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zayo is well in front of this technical rub where these large demands meet the need for new network technologies in lighting services. I believe we are well positioned to meet the challenge because our teams at Zayo are in front of the technology on our routes. What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo?

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. For an organization, it is important to be conscious about the attitude of the architects it hires and puts in charge.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He was a bit nervous but we had practiced 3 times before he was ‘on stage’ in front of hundreds of people and the zoom meeting turned to him. No one took me seriously… until that moment during an internal sales kick-off meeting. . “so Arjun (my son) sat next to me at my desk. so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds. And people skills?

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This new paradigm places a premium on metrics like latency and error rates, equipping engineers to gauge whether their software is meeting market expectations. is a key enabler in this shift, helping engineers raise the bar by providing a deeper understanding of how users interact with their software. Observability 2.0

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Too often, these vital steps are treated as afterthoughts, sometimes even being left out completely as pressure to meet deadlines mount. This is down to your company’s culture. Manual compliance tests, risk assessments, and audits are time-consuming and the bane of a developer’s existence. It saves time and money.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Netflix’s mission and its culture primarily drew me to Netflix. The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s have a look at the official definition: Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. What is a lean coffee? Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Why is the lean coffee a powerful format?

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Gitprime

MAY 30, 2019

MAKE BIG DECISIONS IN MEETINGS, RATHER THAN IN ASYNCHRONOUS CHATS. So while Slack and its counterparts are great for chatter and asynchronous chats, Buffer now schedules synchronous meetings for making the big decisions. No one is expected to attend a 7:00 PM meeting every night simply because they’re in a different time zone.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 3, 2022

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. No meetings. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Two people at least.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Remove blockers.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Culture will eat any structure. Chapters meet regularly to discuss problems and share learnings in their field. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Their approach grew from their people and their culture. We need to create cultures that promote this mindset.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience.

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Xebia

APRIL 21, 2022

The chances are that if you have achieved something for 85%, you will also meet the last 15% to claim the full reward. . Within games, you see progress bars often used to complete a big task such as reaching the next level. By visualizing the progress of a big task using a progress bar, leaders can visualize the status of a big task.

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We wanted to showcase and demystify this part of our engineering team by interviewing several of our engineers to share their experiences in their own words. Meet some of our backend engineers… Bryan Mikaelian. We’ve cut down the number of meetings we have weekly by improving our async communication.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 26, 2020

Our People (HR) team creates a Clubhouse ticket (project management software) that assigns tasks and due dates for everything ranging from granting the employee system access with IT to giving them branded swag to booking all their core meetings. It starts with logistics, lots of meetings, and a little bit of extra care.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. I was both enjoying the ways, done the story behind it, and it had a huge educational component.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 23, 2022

During meetings, or “onstage,” employees agree with what their boss or peers say. Research consistently suggests that this formal approach to change management does not work. This failure is partly due to a discrepancy between what people say and what people do.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I didn’t meet that deadline, and carried it over to Q1 of 2021. If you feel your retrospective shines a light on difficulties other engineers might have, share it more widely in your organization. Learning “in the open” creates a kind of safety in an engineering culture.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. There’s also a strong debugging culture. We’re hiring across many departments (just so happens we have spots for new engineers, too)!

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Honeycomb

MAY 29, 2024

Without that multiplicity, an organization risks overfitting to the short term and lacking the resources to effectively pivot when it meets a great challenge. In practice, this may look like funding the CoPE from a customer success or product department budget, rather than engineering.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. My managers tell me that they’re seeing shifts in behavior, with people volunteering to lead meetings and take on work they didn’t before. Here’s the latest version of the ladder. Verdict: So far, so good.

Software Engineering 63

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Honeycomb

MAY 15, 2024

Start from the bottom The first thing to do is find as many of those intrinsically-motivated individuals and bring them together in a regular meeting to talk about the CoPE’s mandate, what they want to achieve, and why.

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Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

Nonetheless, I think it’s useful to share what I can about my experience in the hope that it might encourage others to seriously consider this role, especially those from backgrounds, identities, and genders poorly represented in the VP of Engineering ranks today. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

The diagram below is one effort to identify more granular labels that I assembled for an internal meeting. Business stakeholders then get handed a clearer tradeoff: do we invest now, or do we decide meeting our 99.9% Rework Rework or refactoring is probably the category most associated with “tech debt” in software engineering.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. SLOs are specific, measurable goals set to ensure that a service meets the desired operational performance and reliability level.

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Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

2) Once the members are recruited, bring them together in a regular meeting to talk about the CoPE’s mandate, what they want to achieve, and why. It may also include informal relations like regular coffee meetings, carpool groups, and the like. Making a change requires people who will advocate for that change.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise. As a rule, a software engineer uses coding skills to develop and design software solutions that meet the project’s requirements.

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