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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? I walked them through an exercise right there on the CEOs dining room table. Imagine were the best product engineering org in the world. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers.

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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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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

Prior to taking on the tactical project manager role, I was in a senior engineering manager role. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers.