InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 30, 2020

The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Managers can hold space and build a culture where mental health is prioritized, and being frank about promoting it sure helps. Two (equal) leadership paths.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Read our latest Confluent Champion post to learn how security engineering manager Tejal Adsul is honing her leadership skills at Confluent.

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CircleCI

JUNE 16, 2022

This Continuous Improvement starts with one important company value: a blameless culture. Our blameless culture extends into every part of how we operate. It allows us to build trust among our different engineering teams, and it’s crucial to how we approach incidents, learn from them, and prevent them from happening again.

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Tandem

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tandem’s custom software engineering team works collaboratively to create products for our clients. For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our engineering managers (Mercedes, Chris, and Kate) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate an inclusive workplace culture, and support each other along the way.

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Gitprime

DECEMBER 31, 2018

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. Johnathan Nightingale has seen first-hand how powerful a solid management structure can be for growing organizations. “We Culture is set at the line manager level.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

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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Tandem

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For today’s Tandem Roundtable, our design managers (Julia and Chris) sat down to discuss how they create opportunities for career growth, cultivate a healthy design culture, and support each other along the way. Interested in our engineering managers’ perspectives? What is Tandem’s approach to management?

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Cloudera

APRIL 26, 2024

This month is Allyship April—a time dedicated to deepening our understanding of allyship and its profound impact on fostering inclusive cultures. Our leadership’s hands-on involvement in allyship initiatives sets us apart, from our CEO to our Executive Vice Presidents. Why do you think allyship is vital in the workplace?

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Seerene

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Having begun as an Engineer with my company, Seerene, I transitioned from this role to a position as Engineering Manager some two months ago. Just as any individual would when they’re about to start in a new position, I started familiarising myself with blog posts and other literature written by seasoned managers.

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Federico Cargnelutti

MAY 13, 2019

I finished reading the books “ The Making of a Manager ” by Juklie Zhuo, “ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ” by Stephen Covey, and “ The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership ” by John Maxwell. Set a clear strategy and vision for the team, and ensure it’s understood by everyone. Cycle time.

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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. The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation.

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Federico Cargnelutti

DECEMBER 19, 2018

I finished reading the books “The Making of a Manager” by Juklie Zhuo, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey, and “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John Maxwell. Here are my notes: Management Know what’s expected of your team and what the business priorities are.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

Enough that I don’t do any coding myself, and the managers that report to me don’t have time to do much either.) What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. However, they have enough experience to take a strong peer leadership role in their teams.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 15, 2019

How should remote engineers support themselves, since they lack the interpersonal support of a co-located office? Nassim Kammah , who recently joined Elastic as a Senior Engineering Manager, believes that leading a distributed team is really not so different than leading a co-located one. Then, be there to support them.”.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 9, 2021

Three phases of a controlling engineering manager. Every morning, I see the unfiltered thoughts of 1200+ engineering leaders as one of the community moderators in the Dev Interrupted Discord server.

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Accenture

APRIL 16, 2018

I would argue that it comes down to a lack of foresight and leadership in the Indian organizations that this CEO was trying to build a working relationship with, which I can testify to myself. The culture prohibits openness and transparency, even at the expense of decreased customer satisfaction. The Tale of the Vanishing Impediments.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Stretch conference is a 2-day international conference that brings together community leaders and managers who are interested in sharing stories, hands-on solutions, and exploring new trends and ideas to become a better version of themselves. What are the topics of the talks? What makes the Stretch conference so special?

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Kentik

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As Kentik’s backend engineering manager, I know this has kept our team very busy. One way our leadership supports us is by providing really awesome benefits. And leadership makes it a point to provide money and flexible time off for their employees to actually have wellness. And this is a top-down thing!

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Netlify

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So, metrics must be a positive driver for the culture you want to build. At Netlify, we use a weekly pulse survey to gain a qualitative look at team motivation, management support for team members, and our engineers’ overall support for and recommendation of the company as a place to work. Building a Culture of Measurement.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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Tandem

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Mercedes has a nine-year history as a developer, joining Tandem in 2017 as a Senior Software Engineer. She rose through the company to Principal Software Engineer and Engineering Manager roles before this promotion. . I’m excited about the way this additional leadership role will empower our company to be even better.”.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Michael Lopp discuss the small practices that make a good leader. Listen to learn about building trust, respect, and relationships in a leadership role. Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. @2:29. Leadership is a skill. @3:32.

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 13, 2024

The journey toward formidable — invincible — cloud security involves not just technological changes but a fundamental shift in culture, mindset, and operational processes. From fostering a security-first culture to leveraging the scalability of the cloud, we examine the multifaceted approach required to safeguard your cloud ecosystem.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Mike: I wish I had the crystal ball for this, but I hope that when the market starts picking up again (rapidly I’m inclined to think) that companies will have to adopt more and higher levels of support for the employees as it relates to culture, DEI, and general happiness. Rado: Prioritization, team time, and environment management.

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Gorilla Logic

JUNE 10, 2019

Leveraging the experience gained and the organization that’s in place in Costa Rica, we have built a second Nearshore Development Center in the tech- and culture-forward city of Medellín, Colombia. The Culture of Delivery That Makes This Possible. Nearshore Model.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. If they also manage the development team, they will solely represent engineering in the senior leadership team. As a result, they do not work cross-functionally.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Jason Wong discuss how one size does not fit all in leadership. They dive into how the traditional leadership model isn’t working well and how it could be changed to become more effective. The traditional leadership model isn’t working well.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 10, 2022

Managers facilitate a lot of decision-making and routing of people and data and things, and it’s very easy to slip into making all decisions rather than empowering people to make them. But if you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer.

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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. Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path is one good exception to this.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good. The post For Engineers, Meetings Waste Time and Money appeared first on DevOps.com. Research from Clockwise recently examined […].

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

As I embarked on this new challenge, I realized that people management and building teams are something that I truly enjoy. I have been fortunate that as I moved from one industry to another, I was able to develop my engineering management experiences and align with the business needs. I never looked back.

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scruminc

JANUARY 26, 2022

This blog is an excerpt of an upcoming case study that examines John Deere’s Agile culture, approach, and success. . Jay Strief, the Group Engineering Manager of Supply Chain Solutions, connects this success in part to managing through supply chain issues and puts it in personal terms. “The

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Praxent

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Praxent’s culture is built upon our team, and we work hard to recognize the vision and knowledge of each team member. ” As a manager, how well does Praxent’s remote culture work? Jared Cobb – Engineering Manager: “I think that the remote culture is pretty strong at Praxent and it’s only getting stronger.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In order to architect modular platforms a CIO needs revamped approaches to hiring in order to get top-flight engineers. Managing The Transformation In order to be successful, a CIO has to first come to terms with the scope of the transformation itself. CIOs have always been looked at as being leaders within the company.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A true sign of leadership is knowing when to defer and to follow others. This is part of why Charity has advocated the Engineer/Manager Pendulum , and why I mentioned sortition earlier. Don’t be afraid to do this.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

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. Competes with feature development. What do developers produce in a month?

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