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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment. We’re all going in the same direction.

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Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

Apiumhub

By taking these steps and continuously promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion, the software development community can work towards creating events that better represent and engage all its members.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers. This is good.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

With that, the argument that they should put a people-managers on their payroll, where it sounds like their only job is for them to tell other people what to do, feels like a real waste.”. At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Hiring for culture fit.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Craft Conference is an event where any type of engineers, team leaders, agile coaches, engineering managers, executives/founders, UX/product people could learn a lot. To achieve this goal from year to year organizers invite a really unique speaker line-up. Team and organisational level topics, best practices (agile, devops etc.)

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From OOP to FP by Joaquin Azcarate – backend developer at Apiumhub in Software Crafters Barcelona

Apiumhub

Your feedback generates bugs in production by Eli Maruenda Joya – Engineering Manager at Holaluz.com, Inma Navas Peña – Software Engineer at MANGO. by Ramon Balaguer – Legacy software developer at Voxel Group , Vicenç García – VP of Engineering at Voxel Group.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.