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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. Here’s the latest version of the ladder.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

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. It tends to snap back. True change involves changing hundreds of little day-to-day decisions.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

team autonomy, information flow, alignment between teams, support for taking risk, organisational culture), or functional in attaining goals (e.g. purpose and vision, performance feedbacks, objectives and key results), or lead to personal growth and development (e.g., A resource can be job-related or personal.

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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. This is a big cultural shift!

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Nightmares in Employee Onboarding

LaunchDarkly

We’re all familiar with Test-Driven Development, right? We want to try Retention-Driven Onboarding. Tacit knowledge is the stuff that we call, “gut checking,” it’s the culture fit. “This person is not a culture fit because I just don’t like how they handle things in a meeting.”