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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. 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. This is a big cultural shift!

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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. Just as the ladder sets new expectations of engineers, the management track sets new expectations for managers, with material about managing the system rather than just managing the work.