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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

According to a survey conducted by FTI Consulting on behalf of UST, a digital transformation consultancy, 99% of senior IT decision makers say their companies are deploying AI, with more than half using and integrating it throughout their organizations, and 93% say that AI will be essential to success in the next five years.

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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.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong. Develop a means of cultural acknowledgment. The fact that they’ve been here that long often says that they are cultural exemplars.”.

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

Gitprime

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. It’s a self-fulfilling cycle.”.

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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

My current role as VP of Engineering has me managing a few senior ICs, but I am mostly managing other managers and directors now. These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Engineering manager’s Bill of Rights.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. Where do you put the contracts in place? Davis is a self-described architect. Where do you put the APIs?

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

John is a consultant and helps companies with Devops, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Helen works as the head of DevOps practice at Ranger4, an organization that helps companies adopt and embrace a DevOps culture. Elisabeth Hendrickson spends her time embroiled in the DevOps culture at Pivotal, where she is the VP of Engineering.

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