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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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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. I haven’t had a chance to go back and interview the engineers about what they think about the new system yet, but I’d like to do so. Latest Update In April, the ladder only covered up to Technical Lead.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. To counter this, one might consider adopting the model of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum or other techniques of rotating leaders like sortition. This is nothing new.

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

When decisions are made, you make sure that they flow through the right channels and the right people in the right direction,” Muntz advises. But Armandpour insists on bringing all of PagerDuty’s new hires (whether they’re remote or not) to one of the main hubs in Toronto or San Francisco for an onboarding program.