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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.” Therefore, empathy truly is within a manager’s domain. Make the effort, whatever tools you have. The effort matters more than the tools used to implement the effort, as well. Then it becomes more contagious.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

It combines talk sessions, workshops and a hackathon where attendees can learn about the latest tools, methods and practices of software craft. Craft can help companies to understand how important it is to invest in the way they develop: not just into engineering but into the whole value generation process.

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

Gitprime

Mailchimp’s engineering team is about 350 people, both distributed and remote, across the United States. Katie Womersley , VP of Engineering at Buffer. Buffer has a fully distributed engineering team—no home base, no hub, no offices. The engineering org is 35 people worldwide, covering nearly every time zone.

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From OOP to FP by Joaquin Azcarate – backend developer at Apiumhub in Software Crafters Barcelona

Apiumhub

Your feedback generates bugs in production by Eli Maruenda Joya – Engineering Manager at Holaluz.com, Inma Navas Peña – Software Engineer at MANGO. Feedback is a very powerful tool to grow collectively and individually. How to manage 20 years of legacy? Communication in organizations is vital.

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering). Yet she’s worked with a lot of engineering leaders where that internal drive—and the resulting fulfillment—weren’t the case.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. To recap, our career ladder is a tool for cultural change. AI is a great tool.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Lara: Okay, so there’s a bunch of like the tools side so that people feel like they can hit the ground running. So on the tools front, there is the book Resilient Management. So that’s like the tool kit support side. Lara: The first one on one questions I developed to help onboard yourself onto the team.