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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

. “With a very limited pool of engineering talent to hire from, we were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource our entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Indeed, product development and product management, where roadmaps originate and competitive juices flow, is a hotbed of creativity. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

We expect those teams to take a valuable increment, go off and work on it together , including collaborating with product management and stakeholders to understand what needs to be done, and to take responsibility for figuring out how to work together as a team. This is a big cultural shift! Its uncomfortable for some folks.

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

Yet, users of those products want a consumer level of simplicity in enterprise software. Unlocking product led growth depends on an easy-to-use, self-explanatory interface. As a product manager, I rank features in my backlog against: How much revenue will this help me get? How hard is it for engineering to build?

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Could the time spent on these activities have been spent developing more valuable features to achieve a more beneficial product goal? When we try to model developer productivity, should we also consider product management efficacy? Even if we see an increase in output, that doesn’t imply an increase in value.

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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. Associate Manager of Engineering (New) Associate Engineering Managers work under the guidance of more senior managers to learn the craft of managing teams.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Dhevi Rajendran

Netflix Tech

The blend of creativity and a strong engineering culture at Netflix really appealed to me. The culture was also something that piqued my interest. I was pretty skeptical of Netflix’s culture memo at first.